False bookings, reported and remembered

Every portrait on this site belongs to a real woman who, once a reservation is confirmed, gets into a taxi and heads for an address she has never seen, often late at night, knowing only what was typed in the thread. The house treats a false booking with that in mind. It is not logged as a cancellation or a misunderstanding; it belongs to a separate category with its own response.

What counts

• A reservation under a name that is not the guest's own.
• A number or messaging account belonging to someone else, or created to mislead.
• A booking made as a joke on another person, a colleague's room number handed over for a laugh.
• A no-show by someone who never intended to be behind the door.

What follows

A record of the booking is retained. The name, number and address used travel to other reputable Amsterdam houses, whose women then know to decline them. Where it is warranted, the relevant authorities are told.

What it means for everyone else

Honest guests are entirely unaffected. A room number corrected in the thread, a flight that landed late, a guest who cancels in the ordinary way and forfeits a deposit: none of these is a false booking, and none of them is treated as one. A guest booking for the first time is not under suspicion either; the deposit on a first reservation reflects the cost of accepting it, not a judgement about the person.

The rule exists to protect the forty-five women the house sends out, the fifteen on this wall among them, each of whom enters strange hotels by herself, frequently after dark. A real name, a real number and a door you mean to answer: that is all the rule asks of anyone. The booking page sets out a genuine reservation step by step, WhatsApp booking describes the thread itself, and the full position sits in the cancellation policy.