I usually hire when I'm traveling, and host at my hotel. I find that most hotel elevators require a room key for access, but even when they don't, meeting in the hotel lobby is a nice neutral area to meet. When I'm meeting an escort for the first time and I get a text that he's on his way over, I generally tell him I'll meet him in the lobby and that I'm wearing a red t-shirt, or whatever. The second time I hired an escort was at a hotel in London that had open elevators, so I just gave they guy my room number and told him to come on up. When he arrived, I guess he looked a bit lost and one of the lobby staff asked if they could help, he said he was visiting a guest in room #, and they asked for the last name of the guest before letting him in the elevator, which of course he did not know. Pretty obvious to the hotel staff what was going on there, and I learned from that experience that it's better to take control of the situation. I find that the walk from the lobby to my room is a nice little ice breaker with someone new.