Thought you were alone in your quiet shame of needing a discrete place to bang a prostie or pal, the trading floor bathroom no longer being an option? Think again! Your Japanese counterparts (and colleagues there on business) are in the same posish and the economy yonder over there is benefiting. Bloomberg reports that Japanese “love hotels,” which would be hotels you take someone you with whom you only want to spend a few hours and not be charged for 24, are make making money money, take taking money money. “It’s a recession-proof industry,” says Steve Mansfield, chief executive officer at New Perspective, formerly of Citadel, where he opened the firm’s Tokyo office and headed its Asian private investment strategy and no doubt learned a thing or two. If any of you enterprising young pups are considering opening a chain of these establishments, please note that this isn’t your father’s p-town palace. Provide accordingly.
Many love hotels have abandoned the red velvet sofas, revolving beds and mirrored ceilings that made them famous in the 1960s and 70s. A renovation at the Bonita hotel in Sendai, north of Tokyo, recently bought by Japan Leisure, has rooms more akin to a boutique hotel, with 42-inch flat-panel televisions, black modern sofas and king size beds.
Customers choose their room from a display with pictures of the suites. There’s no check-in form and you pay a cashier hidden behind a screen.
“It can feel embarrassing to take people back home and so love hotels are popular,” said Mitsuo Seki, a 32-year-old bartender in Tokyo, who visited love hotels three to four times a month. “They have lots of extras as well that are very entertaining.”
What are these ‘extras’
@1- ball gags, naturally.
You mean you’re supposed to have a partner with you when you go there? Now you tell me!
~Tokyo based CDS Salesman
Secular bull market in love hotels = Post of the day.
A husband and wife are traveling by car from Tokyo to Hiroshima. After almost twenty-four hours on the road, they decide to stop at a nice “love hotel” and take a room. They only plan to sleep for four hours and then get back on the road. When they check out four hours later, the desk clerk hands them a bill for $350. The man explodes and demands to know why the charge is so high. He tells the clerk although it’s a nice hotel, the rooms certainly aren’t worth $350. When the clerk explains that $350 is the standard rate, the man insists on speaking to the manager.
The manager enters the conversation and explains that the hotel has an Olympic-sized pool and a huge conference center nearby which were available for the husband and wife to use.
No matter what facility the manager mentions, the man replies, “But we didn’t use it!”
The manager is unmoved. Eventually the man gives up and agrees to pay. He writes a check and hands it to the manager. “But sir,” the managers says, “this check is only made out for $100.”
“That’s right,” replies the man. “I charged you $250 for sleeping with my wife.”
“What! I didn’t sleep with your wife!” exclaims the manager.
“Well,” the man replies, “she was here, and you could have.”
~Shecky Hiromatsue
Loveshacks will not save, only ass poundable secretaries will save.
Pounder of the ass
“It can feel embarrassing to take people back home and so love hotels are popular”…I should say so, “Hi, honey, God this is a little embarassing, I wish I’d have known you were home…Anyway, don’t mind the prostitute I just brought home to bang the snot out of, while you prepare dinner. She’ll be gone in a hour or so.”
@6 no you’re not
@6
you are a poundee of ass
Becky Quick’s waxed vajayjay
Actually you can spend the night (at least in Tokyo), using the “Stay” option (as opposed to “Rest”), although “Stay” is usually available later in the evening (but still a cheap way to get a hotel night, compared to a capsule hotel).
Sounds like a story Erin Burnett should verify in Tokyo, in person…with Becky and her supple, shorn snatch.
-BeckyBukkakeFan
Erin is too busy investigating Africa right now…
Because most of Japanese boys and girls live with their parents until they get married, it is kinda hard to take his/her date to their places for getting some some. So love hotels are very convenient since they can stop by after the movie, shopping, dinner or whatever – and as the report said, there are lots of extras, like, karaoke machines, spas, TV games and DVDs….Bess, this is your next liveblogging um, with Anal_st?
i only need 5 min. how much is that?
london is on the game too….city hotel(s) offering 20gbp rate for the day (10-4pm) so you can use a room as a ‘office’ have a nap etc!!!
they are often quite nice and nicer and a better deal than a regular hotel. ive stayed at one for dirt cheap that was better than the ritz (well the ritz is crap).
my girlfriend brought me, thought it would be cheesey. was wrong
@13 – Could it be that Erin prefers large African wood to tiny Asian bamboo?