Review - Hotel Eroyado

A recent  feature in Atlas Obscura talks about RL Japanese Love Hotels having outrageous room themes ranging from The White House to Doctors’ offices to railway cars. Though there are fewer in Japan today, there were once 30,000 Love Hotels, providing room rentals by the hour and catering to couples looking for discretion and anonymity.

Jasmine Kiyori has recreated one in Second Life. It sits in her wider Japanese-Korean themed urban sims, which are worth a visit in their own right. And the rooms are just as wild as in the RL equivalents, with one for example giving you the experience of bathing in soy sauce.

Overall look and feel

You reach the Hotel Eroyado from the main Kiyori sims, the entrance sits in a red light district type area, with the surrounding streets having neon-signed strip clubs and sex shops.

You then TP up to a corridor where you are given a choice of nine rooms, note you can’t preview the rooms for free you do have to pay and tp in (the minimum is 150L for 15 mins if you want a quick look). As a result, I’m hoping this review will give you a better idea on what to expect.

The rooms

As mentioned there are nine rooms. I went with my partner Camille (Muti) Milos and some of our favourites included:

Sushi Love - There is sushi on the walls, sushi roll themed furniture and you can take a bath in a dish of soy sauce

Hello Kinky - A Hello Kitty themed room

Yin Yang - This room is full of panda furniture

Oriental Desire - A more traditional Japanese themed room

Others include ‘Cherry love’, ‘Hot Kiss’ and the ‘Mistress Bedroom.’

The rooms are creative, sexy, at times funny, I’ve not seen anything similar in Second Life.

The facilities

There by and large aren’t any, which is the whole point. Japanese Love Hotels are designed so that they give next to no interaction with another human being.

The one exception is a ‘sex shop’, where you can choose between one of four RLV enabled ‘dolls’ to take with you to your room - or indeed anywhere in SL.

The anims

As you would expect there are a wide range of anims, and every piece of furniture is ‘adult.’

Other considerations

Is it adult? Obviously yes

Privacy. The individual rooms are in skyboxes

Lag. Again, because they are in their own skyboxes, we didn’t encounter much in the rooms

Prices. Like in an RL Japanese Love Hotel, you rent by the hour. An hour’s stay is 600L, and you can pay more once in the room.

Overall

Many ‘adult’ places in Second Life are crass and tacky. The Hotel Eroyado is a world away from those. Like the real Japanese Love Hotels, it’s worth going to just for the overall experience.

Jasmine Kiyori is a really talented builder and designer (see the review on her Little Santorini sim), and so the rooms are really well put together with amazing details.

In summary, we loved it here. Though it’s obviously not the kind of place you’ll go to on vacation, I definitely recommend going and experiencing it at least once.

Hotel Eroyado Entrance - SLURL