The Love Motel.
This reminds me: I actually went ahead to ask the receptionist this question, because I was hoping to get her to come up to me at the love motel itself:
How old are you?
To which she replied "Too much". If you don't get it, it just means that the question is, by its nature, too intrusive because it's an unspoken, but well-known rule, that the age of a female is a secret. So I couldn't proceed to the second question on my agenda, which is "So you wanna come up later?"
And to prove that I've been to a love motel, here are some pictures, complete with a video of the toilet light.
We spent two nights in a love motel in Busan. Besides the fact that there were occasional moanings from other rooms, doorbells ringing at midnight, and a rather erotically-lit corridor, it was quite a nice stay. Well, to be honest, almost anywhere is better than the motel in Sokcho. And in this case, the cost per night is only 10K won more expensive than the one in Sokcho. This means around 50 Singapore dollars a night. Quite a steal I'd say.
First up--a pack of condoms. They claim to have "3 premium condoms", but when we opened the box, there were only 2. Wonder where did the third one go..
I have no idea why the corridor is lit as such--it wasn't very bright with such lighting, and it didn't feel warm at all. It was just plain weird. Seriously. Just plain weird.
This is proof that Korea is a liberal society--these pictures of scantily clad ladies were placed immediately outside the love motel itself. I don't know what sort of conclusion about these pictures would you make, but I'm guessing that these are advertisements for prostitutes--you pick the picture, and you call a number (presumably on the picture itself, I didn't have the balls to pick any of these up).
Is it just me, or does the key look like a dick, complete with balls? Seriously, dude, I know my reproductive organ and how it looks like, you don't have to remind me of the male anatomy, that's the job of schools, not the job of love motels, thanks.
I like how they subtly bring out the heart-shape on the pillows. Yes 9 indeed.
The pink lights were a dead giveaway. I have no idea why we walked in--but to save some skin, we checked in during daytime and thus we had no idea that it has such interesting lights.
And here, my dears, is the video of the toilet light. I didn't complete one whole round of the lighting, it changes colour every 5 seconds after the first 10 seconds of random flashings, but if these were mood lights emulating discotheques, I'm guessing it succeeded.
-- 12/30/2010 02:41:00 PM