CLOUD 5OO,
In non Covid pandemic times, you ideally want to meet at a restaurant the first time. I can think of 2 different women I met in Montreal through SA, one of whom I repeated with and the other I did not. I let them choose where to meet and one picked Dundees and the other picked Deville Dinerbar. These dates were both pre-Covid in 2015 or 2016. The one I met at Dundee's was a mixed racial black girl, the other one was white. The Dundee's girl I ended up seeing a few times after including for my birthday in 2016. BTW that was the only time ever I ate a meal at Dundee's. Was there many times to have drinks and watch basketball games, but with the SA girl was the only time I ever ordered food. Was OK. She took a taxi to meet me there. I think I gave her money for the taxi home, cannot recall.
You are correct that, in general, you never want to hookerize a lady on SA as by requesting a first meeting at a hotel, but there is an exception to the general rule for profiles that are obviously of escorts. And you will know those profiles when you see them- they are a small % but are there and 100% can be recognized, usually there is escort like photography and escort website like language as opposed to the usual bio you see. When you see those profiles and the girl is RECENTLY ACTIVE (save various searches based on your criteria like black or mixed, body type preferred, age preferred) and then do that search sorted by RECENTLY ACTIVE. When you see a girl that is recently active and you recognize her from Cleo's, that's where I would break the rule and broker a first meeting at one of the new Hyatts (if they have opened, otherwise lowest 3 star available). After that you know what to do.