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Level One: The “lobby” is actually a closet-sized room with a door that is bolted shut at dark. After that hour, you can trade currency for keys through a window in the wall.
You get a standard bed. It will squeak. The headboard will be particle board, screwed into the wall. Chances are good that the bed itself will be pressed into a corner. There will be a straight-back chair and (if you are lucky) a small table.
The towels will be very small. If you need more, you must put on your clothes and trek to the window-in-the-wall, where the clerk will smirk at you.
Your room will not contain a clock radio. Nor a coffee maker.
Shampoo? Prolly not. In fact there is no tub, just a stand-up shower with a door that doesn’t like to close completely.
Want to eat? There’s a snack machine next to the broken ice dispenser.
Level Two: You will get all the amenities of a Level One hotel, but in this case, the bed probably will not squeak. It also may be pulled a few inches away from the wall. There is some chance of finding a queen bed.
Clock radio? Nope. Coffee maker? Nope. The straight-back chair may feature a padded cover.
Shampoo? Praise the good Lord above, you have a very good chance of finding shampoo in such a place. Hungry? A mom-and-pop diner is right down the street.
Level Three: There will be a very small lobby, but sometimes no one is there and you’ll have to ring the bell. There will be no window-in-the-wall.
If you want coffee, you can make it in your room, hallelujah. If you choose to listen to the radio, you can.
Shampoo? Yes! There’s even body-wash! And the towels are ever so slightly larger! And if you need more, the help has been strictly ordered to hide their smirks!
You will get either a smallish couch or a cushy chair in your room.
There’s a chain restaurant right next door.
Level Four: The lobby is an actual room. Real people will be there night and day. They will even smile at you kindly, no matter what sort of request you trot out. A maid will bring extra towels to your room. What a treat.
You will not only get a coffeemaker in your room, but also you can find coffee and even some snacks in the lobby. If you are very very lucky, you’ll get breakfast in the a.m., w00t.
The television will reside in a pretty cabinet. The headboard will match. There will be a small couch and a padded chair, along with a desk. Pens and paper will live in the desk drawer. An envelope too. You’ll find a data port above the desk, and wireless internet? It’s a tossup as to whether it will be free or paid.
You want to drink? There’s a bar off the lobby. Is it food you’re after? There’s a coffee shop open in the mornings and a nice restaurant open ’til 10 p.m. After that, you can order room service, if you’ve got $3.50 to spend on a soda and $9.95 for a turkey club.
Level Five: The lobby is vast; it’s bedecked with marble and crystal. Not only will there be smiling people behind the desk, but also there will be a unctuous dude opening the door for you at all hours. You can actually call down your requests, which will be granted almost before you can hang up the phone.
In your room, you’ll find sumptuous bedding and supernumerary pillows.
One phone will rest on the desk; another will hang on the bathroom wall, in reach of the toilet. A glittering row of premium toiletries sits on a shiny plate in the bathroom, along with veritable piles of fluffy towels. A pair of robes hang on the back of the door. The tub has jets.
Hungry? There’s classy dining both off the lobby and right outside the front door. The soda you order from room service will set you back $5.00, and the turkey club, $16. But they’ll both be served by a dude in a black tux and gloves, so…it’s worth it, right?
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In my time as a wife, lover and all-around slut, I’ve trysted in all of the above categories. Each has its own peculiar charms, of course, but only one of them is my favorite sort of place to meet up with a lover.
Which one would you choose as a rendezvous point?
And can you guess which I’d choose?

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