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Even the Samosas come with KimchiA love hotel is not a brothel. It's just a romatic hotel for lovers to get away from it all. Kind of a place for married couples to go after a romantic night. It's kind of common in Japan, so I'm not all that surpised to see them in Korea.

There's a reasonable amount of accomodations around Korea.

The big international standard hotels are very expensive, such as the one in Seoul where I stay which runs about $200+
This is a full service joint, where they carry your bags, and can put out a breakfast buffet which reminds me again what gluttony is.
The kind of place which reminds people that there still are class differences which exist.

Then there are the "expensive Korean" hotels one of which is next to the office in Gumi, which I can't stand and it's $100+ (usually in the ($140 a night range and that's even with the corporate discount that the office sometimes gets.
but it supposedly has a restauraunt, which is decent, and you can make outside phone calls.. However my old co-worker Ian got sick there.
And I've always found the service for the price they charge pretty mediocre.

Then at the bottom are the standard Asian style motels, zilch for service, and pretty much a clean room and a place to sleep $40.
No phone, but maybe it's a korean thing that the one where I stayed a huge tv, and internet access. In fact there was one that had a computer for sufing the web...
In Japan if it's a small town, they can be pretty sparse, even if it is the nicest hotel in town.

I think there's also guest houses. Which are probably even cheaper.

The love hotel rates a bit above the motel.

So why would I want to stay there? As it happens the place where I stayed in Korea, being a small town with not that much there, has a section nestled next to the mountains, which I like to stay. One of the benefits is that in the morning I can get up and go jogging on the trails there. There's nothing like early morning at the top of a hill looking down on the city. Unfortunatley there are only love hotels there.

And well they're always kind of cheapishly romantic, with odd little touches. Aside from the condom on the nightstand. For example the room I was staying in had an advanced remote control, in addition to controlling the big screen tv/dvd player and the surround sound system, controlled all the lighting in the room. So you could turn the lights on bright, on not-so-bright, and just the front of the room, just the back of the room. And turn off the lights coming from the bathroom. And then they had the "other switch" which set the lights in this kind of dim-redish orange tint... Um... I guess that's supposted to be instead of having to light a lot of candles.

Then there was the washroom, although the sink seemed to be an extremely modern pedastal style sink. And the bathtub/shower combination, was elaborate, and had too many controls and settings. All I wanted was the water to come from the spout on top, instead it came from the side, and all sorts of other nozzles. It was quite a contraption, and I hadn't even started with the steam setting, or the piped in music.

Mind you all these little touches don't make the place feel like the Royal York. A full service hotel feels, thick rich, and distinguished. Think of a Prime porterhouse, and a bold Cabernet. And the Sheraton, and some of the hotels I stay in Tucson aproach this. But these love motels seem to be done in a way that feels cheap and thin. I think there's a couple of motels in the Catskills, and probably a few down on the Cape that probably feel this way was well. A love motel is like a steak from sizzler, with Franzina white zinfandel.