Love is a Sexlefield

Armand told me about these places, "love hotels," which are designed for trysts and which feature big, luxurious rooms, yet are far cheaper than regular hotels. I was wondering what the catch was, until I read this:

While an average hotel room in Japan will cost $150 or more, you can stay at a love hotel for $30 to $100 while having a room many times as big. The rooms are always well maintained and clean. The reason for this is that while the love hotel caters primarily toward those for a few hours, they don’t want their rooms sitting empty overnight. They therefore offer them at a much cheaper rate than a typical hotel would.

Not so bad, right? And the "cons" of staying there are not so significant:

There are a few issues to using a love hotel. Overnight stays usually begin at 10:00pm to 11:00 pm and you need to be out the next morning by 10:00am. Once you go into the room, you can’t leave (because once the room is opened, this signals to the staff that you have vacated and the room needs to be cleaned). It also may be difficult to locate these hotels unless you know where they are typically located. The person you pay will not know any English and there are not any type of room service typical with a regular hotel.

We'd never get back to the room until at least 10 or 11, anyway, and who would want to leave a hotel room with a hot tub and karaoke? Not me. Ofer might, though.