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Sadly, I don't think love hotels would work in America. Too many people disrespect and trash public spaces. It's the same reason they don't have net cafes like

by dayvid 8y ago

Sadly, I don't think love hotels would work in America. Too many people disrespect and trash public spaces. It's the same reason they don't have net cafes like they do in Japan (where you can informally crash and use the internet).

roguecoder 8y ago
Bath houses for gay men worked similarly for years in the US.
- monksy 8y ago
  They're still there as well. (Just not that common) I can think of at least 2 or 3 in Chicago.
andrewflnr 8y ago
I don't know exactly how common they were, but I've definitely been to an internet café in the US (in a very small town FWIW). AFAICT they're gone because they just don't make economic sense anymore with everyone having a WiFi device already.
- Noumenon72 8y ago
  Also, public libraries have expanded into the space, using taxpayer dollars to provide the same service for free. Very entrepreneurial of them.
elsonrodriguez 8y ago
I don't know how prevalent they are nation-wide, but Miami had quite a few hotels that billed by the hour. Some even had private attached garages so nobody would see you and your date enter the room. The room quality varied depending on the hotel, along with the price, but even the cheaper rooms were passable.
mturmon 8y ago
There are by-the-hour day spas in LA that often serve this purpose. They seem to be used as meet spots for paid hookups, although they serve other uses as well.
joezydeco 8y ago
They wouldn't work in the anonymous sense of automated check-in and etc. But they do exist. In the Chicago area there are two: Aura and Sybaris. It's by the evening and not the hour, but Sybaris has been operating here since the 1970s: https://www.sybaris.com/suites/paradise-swimming-pool-suite/ https://www.sybaris.com/suites/paradise-swimming-pool-suite/ You also have the honeymoon-based hotels in the Poconos as another example. https://www.racked.com/2015/6/5/8734965/my-girlfriend-and-i-spent-our-six-month-anniversary-at-a-poconos https://www.racked.com/2015/6/5/8734965/my-girlfriend-and-i-...

by dayvid 8y ago

roguecoder 8y ago

Bath houses for gay men worked similarly for years in the US.

monksy 8y ago
They're still there as well. (Just not that common) I can think of at least 2 or 3 in Chicago.

andrewflnr 8y ago

I don't know exactly how common they were, but I've definitely been to an internet café in the US (in a very small town FWIW). AFAICT they're gone because they just don't make economic sense anymore with everyone having a WiFi device already.

Noumenon72 8y ago
Also, public libraries have expanded into the space, using taxpayer dollars to provide the same service for free. Very entrepreneurial of them.

elsonrodriguez 8y ago

I don't know how prevalent they are nation-wide, but Miami had quite a few hotels that billed by the hour. Some even had private attached garages so nobody would see you and your date enter the room. The room quality varied depending on the hotel, along with the price, but even the cheaper rooms were passable.

mturmon 8y ago

There are by-the-hour day spas in LA that often serve this purpose. They seem to be used as meet spots for paid hookups, although they serve other uses as well.

joezydeco 8y ago

They wouldn't work in the anonymous sense of automated check-in and etc. But they do exist. In the Chicago area there are two: Aura and Sybaris. It's by the evening and not the hour, but Sybaris has been operating here since the 1970s: https://www.sybaris.com/suites/paradise-swimming-pool-suite/ https://www.sybaris.com/suites/paradise-swimming-pool-suite/ You also have the honeymoon-based hotels in the Poconos as another example. https://www.racked.com/2015/6/5/8734965/my-girlfriend-and-i-spent-our-six-month-anniversary-at-a-poconos https://www.racked.com/2015/6/5/8734965/my-girlfriend-and-i-...