1st Sep, 2007

Scale of Excellence

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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?

******

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?

Responses

I vote for 3 for myself. Not overly expensive, clean, a lobby so you don’t have to skulk to your room on the outside of the building.

And you feel like a three or four to me. Call it a 3.5

Oh, is that what I “feel” like?

*giggling*

i’m a three or a four depending on price and location…

you hrm

maybe even a two… except i think you up to a three for the couch and the bigger bed…

When it was once a week, level one was the thing, but it was ok and the shower was not too bad. And having the entry door on the outside meant we could sneak the other in… watching for the other’s car and waving from the window. But the towels, oh how white they were — and scratchy. Funny, I was just remember this all today — and missing those times.

Level One sounds like the place the Blues Brothers shacked up in on Van Buren Street.

Level Four sounds like the Hampton Inn, which is where I usually stay.

Level Five sounds like the place I would like to invest in!

Have had sex in them all. Give me Level Five every time.

I think I’m preferential to level 4.
Now for you; Of course I think you deserve nothing but level 5. But I’m thinking your actually more a level 2 girl. I keep thinking about the forgotten cell phone, and getting (not) the key from the front desk. I’m sure he was smirking, so that would preclude you from level 3.
No, wait, I’ve got to be a level 5. Gotta love the phone in the toilet.

I’ve stayed in Level 0 places. Motel Purgatory. The ones that allegedly had water beds, and DID have mirrors on the ceiling. Hookers were killed there.

Of course, we were drunken college students paying by the hour. I started keeping a crappy motel room kit in the back of my car, with everything the hotel didn’t provide.

You know. Soap. Towels. Toilet Paper. A set of sheets.

They recently tore it down, and it kind of makes me sad. I had so many firsts in that place!

Cherrie - The Hampton Inns are nice! I had a boy friend who always took me there. It was always good times, in that we had cable. He was a dud. But the place was nice

As a slut I think you’d go for a level 1 - very basic and desperate! As a wife I think you’d expect a level 5 for your high status in life - BUT, I think as a lover that level 3 is the most ideal - quiet, unassuming, and with just the basic amenities for your tryst.

Good Saturday morning to you, AAG !

Level 5, definitely level 5. If I’m going to have an erotic, decadent, luxuriously sensual, unforgettable experience, let it be all the way…

The Ritz, the 4 Seasons, the St. Regis, the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Les Mars Hotel in Healdsburg, The Peninusla in Beverly Hills, ahhhhhhhh, lover, take me (every way there is, orally, vaginally, anally) where all of my sense can be indulged so lusciously…

OR THEN AGAIN, JUST SCREW MY BRAINS OUT ANYWHERE BECAUSE i WANT YOU SO BAD THAT i DON’T CARE WHERE IT IS - i JUST WANT YOU INSIDE OF ME !

Loving Annie

Are you asking which one I’d *prefer,* in general, no holds barred, or which one I’d prefer given my best econonic possiblity?

I’ll you meant the latter, and money was never a concern, I’d prefer a 5. But, although I’m all for being spoiled with all the best, that’s not really why I’m choosing it. As you go up higher in your scale, one of the things you forgot to mention is the WALLS of the building are also better. The higher end the hotel, the less you can be heard in other rooms or the hallway. And this gives one leeway to make JUST as much noise and get JUST as enthusiastic as one might like to, with no holds barred.

But, in your descriptions, I’d actually truthfully fall somewere around a 4.5. Which would be an arty, boutique hotel with all the amenities (high-thread-count-sheets! nice, sumptous beds!), and all the service, minus the snobbery.

If we’re talking realisitic affordability, it would be 3 or 4. Maybe even 2 if it’s a place where I’m not planning to stay the night, and it’s CLEAN. I can do without much if the place is clean. If it’s dirty, forget it.

My guess is you’d say you prefer a 2 or 3 out of pride and practicality, and you’d say, “really, truly, that’s *just fine* for me, that’s all I need,” but really, secretly underneath it all you secretly want the higher end hotel, more than just what you “need,” but you’d never admit it, even to yourself.

I think you should never go below a level four—you deserve the best.

But I am willing to bet a 2. I’m not quite sure if it’s the sleazy aspect of it or your desire to be low-maintenance; I don’t know you well enough yet to know for sure. Just a suspicion.

Loving Annie? There’s a girl after my own heart…

I’m sort of a spoiled little brat, so level 4 and 5 for me, in general.

But, there is also a place that has red lights, mirrors everywhere, you can pay for 3 hours, 5 hours or overnight. It has a queen sized bed, a crappy little table and two chairs, and toiletries in the bedroom. What it lacks, in addition to any place to recharge with food (BYO), are tie down points. What were they thinking?

I have to go with 5.

If you’re feeling dirty, 1 or 2. If you’re feeling even the slightest bit romantic, 3 or 4.

If you’re the mistress of the former president? Definitely 5.

Myself,,I am a level 4-5 kinda guy,,however,,the strain it puts on the wallet demands that I, for a weekly tryst, find a place that is a little bit more within the budget..such as a level 2 or so,,(gotta have the shampoo, in order to wash her hair)

AAG,
I think you’re onto something here. You could do a sort of Michelin Guide or AAA guidebook to sex hotels. It’d be a real money maker and think how much fun you’d have scouting the places out.

Just a thought :-)

The AAG Guide to Fuckin’ on the Road

I like it!

:)

Well, I would have said that you were a 3 girl, but one of your previous posts leads me to believe that you might actually be more into 1-2. Probably 2. (Shampoo, you know.)

I reckon you’d go for a 3. You’d get a queen bed at 3.
You’re there for a good time, not for a long time.

I just had the experience of the difference of accommodations. I came to a new city picked a hotel on the net which looked like a 3 or 4.
My local female friend didn’t know the place but thought it good based on the location. Well it wasn’t, one night there and we checked out into a real 4 place. In reality it was a 2 or 3 place. For the 2 of us the first place might have been fine but we had for the second night another female friend for a threesome it just wouldn’t cut it. And we needed those extra towels …..

Fred

A boy I dated off and on for 4 years when I first got divorced and I were the king and queen of the seedy motels. We fucked in em all. had a great time. occasionally, say if we were traveling, we stayed in good hotels or bed and breakfasts, but nothing compared to our one place where there was a running stream of porn on the tv and mirrored ceilings and tiny towels.

What I PREFER, if always given the choice would be between a level 4 and a level 5, but I have gotten some dirty looks from the neighbors when checking out of those. Most notably the Sheraton in Nashville where my at the time boyfriend who was there for a doctor’s convention, played doctor with me. One of the hottest nights of my life and for me, that is saying something, You KNOW he did it up right and hit all my triggers for me to say that, and wow, they were pissed at us. Ha!

none of the above. I’ll take a country inn where the lobby is a local pub with dark, heavy timbers supporting the low ceiling, there are real ales on draught, and chef is known county-wide for his steak-and-ale pie. The room is smallish, the bed looks as though 4 generations of the inn’s proprietors have been born and died in it, and there are boxes below the windows full of geraniums and petunias. The other guests will be able to hear every moan and grunt from your room, but this is England so everyone will be too polite to say anything in the morning, but your man might get a wink from the innkeeper.

While I’ll always prefer #5, there’s something quite hot, function (need) over form (nicety), in having steamy sex in a #1. When in dire need, the closest room, bed, kitchen counter, , will do.

Chaucer’s Bitch’s preference has a nice appeal to it. :-)

SO what is the answer??? I vote for a 2 for you, a 4 for me :) maybe a five, depending on who it’s with

Chaucer’s Bitch,

You want to do it at The Prancing Pony!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Dragon#The_Prancing_Pony

Hey AAG! I think you would choose the one with the cock in it.

Doesn’t seem to matter - the headboards all break over the course of the evening no matter how many mints on the pillow or dead hookers in the mattress.

Still - for fucking, I don’t much care as long as the door locks and the bed stays reasonably horizontal.

The PP would be lovely, but the Duck Inn Village Inn in Aylesbury is also excellent. ;-p

I like 4 or better 5, but rather than just sneak off for an hour, I want to make an evening, no, an event out of the night! I want a jacuzzi in the room, over sized towels, an indoor pool we can go (and get thrown out of) when we go skinny dipping at 3AM. a big king sized bed and a couch for more athletic endeavors… And a fridge and microwave because I am going to need refreshment a couple of times during the inevitable interludes.
I suspect your choice varies with your mood…

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