Rent-by-the-hour, or rent-by-the-day guest-house, includes the now standard soft-core artwork. Usual setup is clean rooms, hardish beds, condoms in the drawer.
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The electric toothbrush is a wonderful invention – even if Braun’s milking of the its patent portfolio with propriety toothbrush heads feels like price gouging …
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Irony not lost – a number of Chinese hotels outside of the Tier 1 or 2 cities will cold-call the room of male guests after …
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All over Tokyo there are signs extolling energy saving – a target of 25% for buildings. The quieter corners of the Cerulean Hotel has a …
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Your hotel is on fire – you scramble around your home/office/hotel room for something that will enable you to crawl the smoke-filled corridors and see …
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The lobby of a Chinese boutique hotel (above) jarring with the in-room Chinese-English bible (below). Two separate issues: the role of Christian faith in China; the …
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The hotel laundry form – a format that is as uniform as the business hotels that supply them. The guest lists the number of items …
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International day trips have a certain machismo about them – 4am starts trying not to wake sleeping babes whilst tiptoeing out of the hotel room, …
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A few days bouncing between meetings in the big smoke provides an opportunity to absorb the city through new eyes, an exploration that included four …
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In San Francisco/Monterrey/tha’ Valley until next Sunday. Don’t be shy. Yup, the SF dawn sho does take the edge off permaphuck.
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