Love Hotels in Japan doing good business

[jake]

Japan's love hotels are attracting interest from more than just couples looking for a place to spend a few private hours.

Investors are also interested; this vast market seems to be proving more resilient to the recession than luxury business hotels.

There are about 25,000 love hotels in Japan which are visited an estimated 500 million times a year.

Clustered around train stations, they are doing a brisk business despite the worst recession in living memory.

Flamboyantly designed and exotically named - Hotel For You, Sunpalace, Asian P-Door - they offer rooms by the hour, euphemistically marketed as a short rest or a longer stay.

Contact with staff is kept to a minimum. This is a business that runs on discretion.

Some have underground car parks and entrances, while others provide screens to shield visitors' number plates.

Plenty of customers are using love hotels to indulge in affairs or to meet prostitutes, although many are couples looking to escape the narrow confines of Japanese apartment living.

source/full story: ews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8137746. stm

[DavidBlentworth]

I love Love motels!!!!!
I went to south America a few years ago and found these all over the place. They have no other purpose than that of giving couples somewhere to have sex! Some are themed, which is a bit cheesy, but wouldn't you like to have sex in a room with mirrored walls and ceilings? How about a jacuzzi beside your bed? Or even record yourself on tape!!!!!

You pay by the hour so they end up a lot cheaper than normal hotels and are a lot more fun. Complimentary condoms!

You get a complete mix of people using the hotels, there are couples and escort girls (http://www.bluevelvetgirls.com/london_escorts_gallery.htm) with their guys.

I really like the places, really relaxed and not seedy at all. Its great.
It can only really work in areas where people are open minded and whilst south America is heavily catholic they are also very open minded :s

A lot hotels in London also offers this service but don't advertise it openly and it is only the london escorts (http://www.bluevelvetgirls.com/) who really take advantage of it as they know their way round the city.

I think that everyone should go to love motels, even with you regular partner. What could be a better way to spice things up?