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No Room for Intrusion: My Hotel Door Is Not Your Jurisdiction.


⟡ SWANK Safety Archive: Public Space Misconduct Series ⟡

“This Wasn’t Hospitality. It Was Trespass in Uniform.”
Filed: 6 December 2023
Reference: SWANK/HOTEL/SECURITY-HARASSMENT/HOLIDAYINN-2023
📎 Download PDF – 2023-12-06_SWANK_HolidayInn_SecurityHarassment_EmailComplaint_Simlett_LegalEvidence.pdf

I. I Paid for Privacy. I Received Surveillance.

On 6 December 2023, a Holiday Inn security guard attempted to knock on the hotel room door of a disabled woman travelling alone — at midnight.

Not once.
Twice.
Without cause. Without invitation. Without apology.

The reason? None given.
The effect? Intimidation — dressed in corporate polyester and institutional smirk.

This wasn’t a safety check.
This was harassment with a staff badge.

II. What the Email Documents

  • A real-time, written warning to management from the guest

  • A legally literate refusal:

    “Do not ever knock on my hotel room door at 12am again or I will call the police.”

  • The line between paid lodging and state-adjacent intrusion, crossed without hesitation

  • The gendered entitlement of hotel security: assuming access, invoking silence, expecting no reply

This is not about courtesy.
It is about jurisdiction over one’s own door.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because they always say:

“It was just a knock.”
“We were only doing our job.”
“She overreacted.”

And yet:

  • They would not knock on a man’s door.

  • They would not do it twice.

  • And they would not have met a line as clear as this one.

We filed it because:

  • The door was paid for.

  • The boundary was physical.

  • And the response was legally immediate.

This is not about discomfort.
It is about legal territory — and the architecture of refusal.

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not grant informal access to institutional uniforms.
We do not accept midnight knocks as “routine.”
We do not allow hospitality to become surveillance with tea kettles.

Let the record show:

The door was knocked.
The warning was written.
The police were named.
And the guest was not intimidated — she was archived.

This was not service.
This was trespass with corporate backing.
And now, it is filed in the only archive that bites back.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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This Wasn’t Hospitality. It Was the Hotel Version of a Welfare Check.


⟡ No Sleep. No Door Lock. No Escape. ⟡

Filed: 6 December 2023, 00:43 GMT
Reference: SWANK/HOTEL/2023-HOLIDAYINN-MIDNIGHT-DISTURBANCE
📎 Download PDF — 2023-12-06_SWANK_HolidayInn_SecurityHarassment_LiveEmail_NoSleep_NoEscape.pdf

I. The Email Was Sent While They Were Still Outside the Door.

This is not reflection.
This is real-time evidence, composed in the haze of interrupted sleep and procedural violation — written by a mother documenting institutional aggression before the door even cooled.

It captures:

  • The child, startled and silent

  • The knock, loud and unexplained

  • The corridor, suddenly militarised with suspicion

  • The guest, trying to recall what she had done wrong. (She hadn’t.)

This isn’t drama.
This is what happens when “hospitality” turns into surveillance with a badge and no warrant.

II. The Scene, As They Pretended It Didn’t Happen

There was no loud music.
No social gathering.
No shouting.
Just:

  • Sleep

  • A child

  • A woman recovering from state violence

  • And a security team with a keycard and too much confidence

The email, sent in the dark, captures the shaken dignity of documentation under siege.

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because when trauma survivors are disturbed without cause, they write before they cry.
Because the hotel industry does not get to cloak harassment in “policy.”
Because if they knock at midnight without reason, they should expect to be archived before breakfast.

Let the record show:

  • The guest did nothing wrong

  • The accusation was never substantiated

  • The complaint was written immediately

  • And SWANK — published it in full

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not consider door-banging to be a neutral act.
We do not permit hotel staff to invent suspicion and expect silence.
We do not accept any justification for nocturnal intimidation of sleeping women and children.

Let the record show:

They had the key.
We had the timestamp.
And now — we have the archive.

This is not an overreaction.
It is the reality of procedural violence with a room number.




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