Japanese Love Hotels
Was reading up Neil's chronicles of how he went about getting an iPhone on the day of launch in Japan and lol'ed at the bit where he says...
After being refused entry at 3 Love Hotels because i was on my own and refusing the offer of no less than 20 ladies of the night for a little company i finally found the Hotel Machida Villa.
Due to Japanese housing having very thin walls and many folks living with their parents as a working salary man/office lady, its difficult to do hanky panky at home - thus Japan introduced Love Hotels.
Many Japanese men say "its only natural for a Japanese man to cheat on his partner" and I guess these love hotels enable them to take a break from work for an hour or two for hanky panky.
One can stay at a love hotel from an hour to however long it takes and I heard that some business men do stay at them over night when they miss the last train home. Maybe Neil got unlucky.
Are there love hotel facilities in your region?
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Close-protection officer/Martial artist
Don't they go on hourly rates as opposed to nightly rates? I would wonder if they equaled out to be the same price of a stay, or if one was cheaper... Hell, if it were cheaper to be seen entering kinky lodging all the time, then I'd probably take the risk of being scandalous. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to get anywhere near the beds in those places... o.o;;
Student
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Ew i heard they don't exactly clean those bed sheets... and the smell isn't that pleasant. xP
Motivational Speaker
........Ew o.O
Educator of Young Minds
They are clean and fun and well worth the money. I once met a girl whose birthday it was in a club at the bottom of Shibuya's Love Hotel Hill (yes it was Club Asia!) and about an hour after meeting her managed to convince her to go to one with me. Just one of my many cherished memories of these great, convenient, often weird, almost always wonderful places.
Student, ...someday...zzz
I,m pretty sure they wash the sheets since Japan is all "health-wise" now. I saw on the news that companies can be sued a certain amount for having obese workers. So business companies encourage their workers to use the stairs more and to jump and touch the door top part thing every time they go under one. Kinda health crazy if you ask me but since i already do the jump up and touch the roof/top door thing at school i don't find it too crazy.
Software Engineer
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They can be as cheap as 1200 yen for an hour, 3000 yen for 4 hrs and 7000 yen for 10 hrs ... depending on what area you are in too .... i've stayed in rooms in Kabukicho for 25,000 for 2 hrs.
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You'd feel kind of awkward staying in one of those hotels alone knowing what's going on next door... unless you're into that sort of thing ^_^
sysop
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no love hotels arround here... and since i live on a semi-tropical island, hotels are expensive as sh*t
Medical School Student
hmm, saw a few near the city, but haven't seen any near my neighborhood
Student
i don't think i've seen any of them too, and i've lived in Jakarta all my life
Closet Otaku
No Love Hotel here in the Midwest. But I am wondering if they are nice enough to really spend a night in as a substitute for a regular hotel. I am going to Japan next March with the Mrs and am wondering if it will be fun to just spend a night in a Love Hotel.
part time illustrationist, doll clothing seamstress
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well the hotel me and hubs stayed at in Ikebukuro we could hear people snoring LOL
Web Developer
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No love Hotels here in Toronto. However, there was a trend a while back where people would rent out their own apartments/basement apartments for an hour or two so people could do their business. The ads were on classified ads sites like Craigslist or Kijiji (run by eBay).
IT/System Admin
The "love hotels" in the US are the same ones the crack heads use so they are in really really bad ares and something the homeless would not want to stay in.
-1
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there's one right across the street where i live. some sort of no-tell motel, they even found a body stuffed in the matress of one room once.
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damn that's frightening :/
I see a lot of those chain motels called Sogo hehe is that the one or a different?
pervert
wouldnt staying in a regular hotel be cheaper?
Software Engineer
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Not at all .... and not always that easy to get a room at 1am in a normal hotel, especially when you only need it for a few hrs. ;>)
student during the day, otaku at night
No rabuho here. But why can't you take a nap there if you are alone? You still pay the fee I mean.
Software Engineer
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I think the ones closer to Tokyo you may be OK, they have an automated purchasing procedure, it's the ones out of town that have someone working and taking your $$ that see you're solo.
Back to the grind
there is no no love hotels per se by my house but there are a three hotels on both blocks by my house.there is a lot of prostitution lately.. bad.
Designer, Trader
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Although I never went into one of those, but I do know there are lots of so-called 'love hotel' in town. There's one near my house too and yes, they have hourly rates. There is even one that so discreet that the hotel don't even have a lobby with the very small cashier box so nobody else know you there.
Student
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Well not exactly love hotels, if you want to hit your girl go to a cheap hotel around here or do it on your house when your parents are not there :P
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We got a lot of those here. But I don't think they're as decent looking as those in Japan or as in any other neighboring countries
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No love hotels here... at least none that I know of. But I don't imagine myself going into one. Also, I hate it when men cheats on their partner. It's wrong in many ways x_x
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Nope, not here
Student
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None over here, at least ive never seen any
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None around here, I guess since we don't have thin wall here maybe ^^;
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The Motels in our country i guess~
Most people only go their to do the we~know~what :)
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Aviadreams87, shhhh! that's victoria's secret. ^^
for those who might not understand the joke, there's a famous love hotel chain in the Philippines called victoria court. it features different themed rooms for each person's different fetish. if I'm not mistaken it's a bit similar to how love hotels are in Japan.
btw I heard there's a hello kitty theme love hotel room in Japan, anyone in the area would care to post a photo of it? ^^
Dog of the Country
we have a few in singapore. what I heard from a fren of mine who frequent these places say that they know you're there for hanky panky only.. All the stuffs that you need (no, not for SM) is there.. and it's around the price Neil stated above. Now..i wonder if tutorials are available in those rooms' TV..
Student & Authorized Chicken Slapper
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Ok there isnt anything officially known as love hotels but. There are some motels here where you can rent it by hour.....which only means one thing. Why would u need it for an hour or two right?
Self Employed // Graphic Artist // Clothing
Pretty common over here. In my town there are like 3 love hotels, 2 of them are really nice, and smell good and all. The third one meh, it could be better =P. But over here they are nice for what you pay for a room. It's like $25 USD all inclusive lol. Now if you are in San Juan, the capital, they are way up or so I hear ^^. Need to check it out myself.
Dirty Gentleman
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Only love hotel I know of is my bedroom which coincidently has hourly rates also.
Conservatory of Music Student
Oh love hotels! ..
here in the Philippines...
they're advertised ....
....
...
???Confused???
So what are the prices for staying in one...would make a good rest stop when you need a break...
Student and full-time otaku
It's relatively cold over here, so we have thick walls. Nuff said ^^
Multimedia Technology Student
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Nope there aren't any love hotels around here
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'Many Japanese men say "its only natural for a Japanese man to cheat on his partner"'
They need a refresher lesson on an Asian man's code of honor.
In Singapore there's this place called Hotel 81. Perhaps because of it's slightly seedy-sounding name (compared to the other higher-class ones), or it's location, it's turned into a catchphrase (at least amongst my friends) for a night o' hanky-panky.
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Lulz Love Hotels...
And er... Dont cheat on your partner?
Student
No love hotel facilities in my region. Al least I haven't seen any:P
Art Director
love hotels in colombia are pretty nice :P, of course there are some ugly ones, but there are plenty of love hotels.
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Bwahahahaha love hotels in Norfolk. I dont think so!!! (Unless theres are underground organisation of them....)
Hotel - Night Audit
I work at a hotel with a name similar to the one in the picture, Hotel Dolce Villa. The hotel where I work isn't a love hotel, though, it's a tiny 15 room Italian Style (located in the Italian Neighborhood) extended stay hotel. Not to say there isn't more than a bit of hanky panky going on, of course. Last week pedestrians called the police because they saw a couple doing the nasty on the balcony of one of our rooms >_< That was very shameful for us.
When I was in University there was a motel nearby that was named "The Moby Dick Motel" and advertized hourly rates starting at 36$USD for 2 hours.
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Yep... lots of love hotels in Brazil.
They are called "Motels" here... dunno why. I do know in US Motels are Motor Hotels.
Usually located on city outskirts, some are very expensive and fancy, and they are usually enclosed behind tall walls.
Never been in one though. But some of the fancy ones has TV ads and stuff.
student- university servant
huh? whats a motor hotel? doesnt motel= mini hotel???
meh
Otaku Programmer/Gamer/Artist/Photographer
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HELLL NOOO we don't have love hotels here in Canada XD hahah
though i've never heard of such an idea HERE anywaizs.....
PT Supervisor at UPS
yea theres love hotels in america, its actually motels, like the super 8 motel =D