>>81142The one love hotel I went to was really nice and comfortable and if it weren't for the fact that you can't reserve in advance or at multiple nights at a time I would've made it my regular place to stay, fuck buddy or no. Downsides would probably be that they tend to be in pretty seedy areas and the emphasis is on privacy. The love hotel district in uguisudani is dark and quiet and you pick your room from a display with buttons and a faceless clerk handles the exchange of cash and room key underneath tinted glass.
However, once I got to the room:
42in 1080p HDTV
Most comfortable reclining bed I've ever been on
Glow in the dark toiletry
Black light in the bathroom to go with the glow-in-the-dark toiletries
Vibrator casually hung up next to the bed
It fucking looked swank as hell inside. Pic related. I found this place just by googling ?????, coming across a rating site and then sorting by average score and then making a phone call and asking in advance if they allow foreigners.
I'd say stick to the toyoko inn line of no-frills business hotels for all of your stay and find an excuse to spend a few hours in a good love hotel on the last night or so of your trip if you happen to have $50 left over or something.