About choosing a hotel

I’m column writer Fuu. Whether it’s a love hotel or a business hotel, that’s entirely up to you. If the woman you approached is popular and you’re just one of many papas (male supporters), she may compare you with her other papas. If they offer a better allowance or take her to nicer hotels—or if she simply dislikes love hotels or business hotels—she may just cut you off. The strategy is up to you. It depends on the woman, so I can’t say for sure, but that’s my answer.

Maezawa from the CEO’s Office here as well. > As for high-end city hotels, I’m not interested in women who refuse to go anywhere but luxury hotels. Isn’t it less that you’re “not interested” and more that you simply can’t afford them? If that’s how you put it, then the question becomes: Would you take a woman to a luxury hotel if she didn’t insist on one? You wouldn’t, would you? Because you can’t afford it. In other words, it doesn’t seem like you dislike women who want luxury hotels—you simply want to keep the cost down. > I don’t understand why love hotels are unacceptable. Maybe you’ve only been to cheap love hotels, so you’ve become numb to the difference. Cheap love hotels are often dirty, which is the worst. If you genuinely like love hotels, I think the benchmark would be whether you’re going to places that cost more than ¥10,000 for a short stay. Love hotels charging over ¥10,000 for a short stay usually don’t give you that dirty impression the moment you walk in. For example, a room called the “Andaping Royal Type” at Shinjuku BaliAn costs ¥22,800 for a three-hour weekday stay, and ¥39,800 for an overnight stay from Sunday to Thursday. Whether BaliAn is actually a particularly good love hotel is another matter (although women do rate it highly（笑）). If you regularly use hotels like that, I can understand why you’d prefer a love hotel. But if you’re just going to any cheap love hotel, I think you should fundamentally reconsider your position. Incidentally, I think one advantage of city hotels is that even if a woman is seen by someone she knows, she can say: “I was having a work meeting in the room.” Many people would probably think, “There’s no way that’s true,” but most people do recognize that city hotels can be used that way. With love hotels, however, the general perception is that nobody uses them for work, so you can’t make that excuse. And I think most people would also say that even business hotels aren’t really used for work meetings.

You can easily find plenty of reasonably upscale city hotels for around ¥10,000 if you search on Ikkyu, right? Whether you’re looking for a daytime stay or an overnight one, there should be lots of places available for about the same price as a clean love hotel. Except in Nagoya, they’re really not much different from clean love hotels in terms of price. If you’re considering a ¥5,000 love hotel, you can still find places for ¥5,000 that are just barely somewhere between a city hotel and a business hotel. Whether love hotels are acceptable isn’t up to you, but to the woman you’re meeting. Generally speaking, women tend to avoid love hotels, so— Learn how to Google. If you can’t do that, just search within Ikkyu.com. If you surveyed women on whether they approve of or reject love hotels, wouldn’t the reject side account for more than 80%? If someone sees a young woman entering a love hotel with some old guy, it could ruin her life. “Ruin” may be a bit of an exaggeration, but if the questioner’s wife’s private investigator catches you in the act, you’re finished. —A loser male

I’m Kazu, a male member. As Aya said, it really comes down to how clean the hotel is. I don’t think there’s any problem with a clean business hotel, but many business hotels have small rooms, so I tend to avoid them. The reason I avoid love hotels is that you often can’t make reservations, and the nicer ones tend to be far from restaurants. The other day, I went to a nice love hotel with a woman I’ve been seeing regularly. She said she wanted to try a better room than the one she usually goes to with her casual partner, so we chose that room—and it ended up costing more than the Westin or the Conrad, haha. A love hotel isn’t necessarily cheap or dirty. I don’t think women are particularly hung up on whether it’s a city hotel, business hotel, or love hotel; what they really care about is cleanliness.

I’m Paper Airplane, a male member. I’d recommend using a business hotel only if it’s a particularly clean one, or after you’ve gotten to know each other well. Compared with city hotels or love hotels, business hotels can be inconvenient in many ways, and things are more likely to go wrong. Another drawback is that they’re often not very comfortable or relaxing during the time you spend there apart from the intimate part. If the main plan is to enjoy going out around the entertainment district, a business hotel might work. Otherwise, I wouldn’t really recommend one except for an overnight stay. These days, some love hotels are easy to enter and look almost indistinguishable from regular hotels, so you could look for that kind of place too.

I’m Aya, a female member. There are plenty of run-down love hotels, but you don’t really find dirty luxury hotels or city hotels. The reason many women are a little reluctant to go to a love hotel is that, especially the first time, the papa usually chooses the hotel. They’re afraid they might be taken to one that isn’t clean. Also, they can go to an ordinary love hotel or business hotel with their boyfriend, so many women feel that if they’re going with someone they don’t particularly like, the hotel should at least be somewhere nice. For these reasons, many women are fine with a love hotel as long as it’s somewhere nice and not the kind they usually visit. And with a papa they’re close to, they may feel more at ease and become less particular about the location.

This is Ayase Nana ♡ If you’re hoping to continue seeing her, I think a business hotel would be the better choice. I doubt many people would object to a business hotel. There probably aren’t many women who are especially fond of sex, so love hotels give off a very obvious “we’re about to have sex” vibe. With a business hotel, it’s more like… “Well, I guess that’s what we’re here for?” lol It feels a bit more gentleman-and-lady-like, if that makes sense… I recommend a business hotel <(_ _)>