Forget school prayer, the hotel room nightstand is turning into the new battleground between conservatives and liberals. Will lonely business travelers find comfort in a Gideon Bible hidden inside, or a package full of condoms and lube? Seems placing them side-by-side is in poor taste, so hotels are forced to choose teams.
Hilton Hotels, Ritz-Carltons, New York's Hudson, San Francisco's Clift, Six Columbus and of course plenty of hotels in Canada have jumped on the pro-sex bandwagon.
And the movement is spreading overseas. In communist China there's less debate on whether to lube or not to lube. Last week, Beijing ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms, in an attempt to prevent soaring HIV/AIDS rates, which jumped in the city 54 percent this year.
Barry Napier from Hotel Online is enraged by this phenomenon and predicts a quick moral slide into total mainstream hotel depravity:
People have sexual relations wherever they are anyway. They provide their own means. So luxury hotels are going beyond this by opening up possibilities of promiscuous or one-night sex with hookers, as an official `service.' If this isn't grubby, then what is?
Many hotels already offer a similar 'service' in the form of porn TV channels, so giving sex kits is the next step in a very quick moral demise. After that must come provision of prostitutes.
Don't get your panties in a bunch Barry. But if you do, there's probably a fresh, sexy pair hidden in the second drawer.
We just realized that while we have a bunch of stories on hotel sex kits in the minibars, we haven't posted a picture of the Shag Bag found inside Thompson Hotels. Fortunately for us, when Jaunted Editor Paul Brady spent a night at the finally-opened Six Columbus he snapped a pic of it. The mints are a nice touch. The Dream Cream is a bit much. Gag.
When we first caught wind of The Bryant Park Hotel's plan to add sex toys to the list of amenities offered at their trendy Manhattan property, we didn't quite know what to think.
Were there going to be toy boxes in the rooms with a "you try it you buy it" policy? Or was this going to be a rent-a-dildo situation? (Please God, no.) Is the selection going to be, shall we say, comprehensive enough to cater to guests' varying tastes and orientations?
And most importantly, how the hell will they introduce something like this into the upscale hotel world in a way that's even remotely classy?
Last night, we dropped by Cellar Bar for the launch of the Objects of Pleasure Menu to get the intimate details (and the free drinks, we do enjoy our booze). We hung with a few celebrities, were schooled in the many uses of the gold-plated vibrator and were given a full rundown of the whole adult toy menu while munching on oysters and chocolate-covered cherries.
Valentine's Day is a month away and if you want to impress your significant lover with a spectacular hotel stay, then you better get cracking. Luckily, we will make your job a little easier by featuring some hotel packages that we have heard about this week. Any tips or questions about how to romance your lover in a hotel (not sexually of course), send 'em our way and we'll do our best to answer them.
These days Valentine's Day packages need to include something a little more...shall we say, sexier...than just chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne.
The Fairmont Chicago upped the ante by handing out an erotic cookbook. Now Personality Hotels is offering a romance package that involves some bonding. Or bondage. Whatever you prefer. Check out their "Bond with Love" package:
Deluxe overnight accommodations available at any of Personality Hotels' four chic boutique hotels: Hotel Diva, Hotel Metropolis, Hotel Union Square and Kensington Park Hotel (love pad here you come), A Booty Parlor Intimacy Kit filled with a vibrating couples ring, magic lubricant, Don't Stop massage oil, and Safe is Sexy condoms (need we say more?) and Booty Parlor "All Tied Up" Bonding Tape (get close to the one you love).
Booty Parlor seems to be the popular in-room erotic kit as we found out last year when the Mondrian Hotel began selling the kits in its gift shops and mini-bars.
Rates for the Personality Hotels package starts at an extremely reasonable $119 and is good through March 31st.
This week we searched for hotels that provided guests with ways to spicen up their stays with sex toys and other sexual aids.
For those who like to do it in hotel rooms, you're in luck as more and more hotels are jumping on the sex bandwagon.
At the Morongo Casino Resort, the concierge has been known to make a floral arrangement with sex toys at the request of one guest.The Hard Rock Hotel has handcuffs on the room service. The Sagamore offers the Shag Bag--a goodie bag of sex toys. The James Hotel has intimacy kits for sale in its mini-bars as does the W Hotels. Even less scene-y hotels like the Crescent City Guest House in New Orleans has a "Safe Sex" kit tucked away in the nightstand drawer from "Aunt Pearl."
Across the pond, the Hotel Pelirocco has a Durex-sponsored Playtime Menu available for in-room use. Or if you don't feel like springing for the kit, the hotel sells condoms in the first floor vending machine.
Some other places we mentioned this week with sexy ways are:
During Sundance we got our first taste of the Booty Parlor Suite, so when we heard a not-so-secret Sunset Strip hotel was putting the toys bedside, we jumped to action.
A tipster let us know that one West Hollywood property was creating a special intimacy kit for hotel mini-bars, using the same toys that were spotted at Sundance, called The Midnight Cravings Kit--and no, this would not include a pack of Pringles and a can of Coke.
We also heard that this sexually hip hotel on Sunset was looking to further satisfy its A-list guests by starting a pilot program that featured these in-room sex kits.
At first, we thought--must be the Chateau Marmont--home of the new wild screamin' Kenyan sex couple. However, unfortunately for Jess, the Chateau is still BYOST.
The hotel with the toys? That would be the Mondrian Hotel, which makes perfect sense because the hotel has a gift shop appropriately named Pleasure that already carries Booty Parlor products, such as the Starter Kit and the Rainy Day Kit.
These kits come in innocuously wrapped boxes and include vibrators, tissue-wrapped batteries, lubricant, a feathery pink boa, and a piece of chocolate.
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