Meanings
plural love hotels
- A short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.
Love hotels differ in terms of price (from about $30 per hour and up), decoration (some may offer features such as sex swings, hot tubs, or round beds, and many are themed), and architecture […].
2021, Margo DeMello, On the Job: An Encyclopedia of Unique Occupations around the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 137Synonyms: autohotel, fast sheet, hot-sheet motel, maison de passe, no-tell hotel, no-tell motel, motel
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA short-stay hotel found in Japan and elsewhere, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing lovers privacy to have sexual intercourse.
Origin
Translations
Arabic فُنْدُقُ الحُبّ
- فُنْدُقُ الحُبّ (funduqu l-ḥubb)short-stay hotel for sex
Chinese Mandarin 情侶酒店 /情侣酒店, 愛情旅館 /爱情旅馆
- 情侶酒店 /情侣酒店 (qínglǚ jiǔdiàn)short-stay hotel for sex
- 愛情旅館 /爱情旅馆 (àiqíng lǚguǎn)short-stay hotel for sex
- 情人旅館 /情人旅馆 (qíngrén lǚguǎn)short-stay hotel for sex
- 鐘點房 /钟点房 (zhōngdiǎnfáng)short-stay hotel for sex
Dutch shortstay
- shortstayshort-stay hotel for sex
Finnish tuntihotelli
- tuntihotellishort-stay hotel for sex
French love hotel
- love hotelshort-stay hotel for sex
German Love Hotel
- Love Hotelshort-stay hotel for sex
Hindi लव होटल, प्यार होटल
- लव होटल (lav hoṭal)short-stay hotel for sex
- प्यार होटल (pyār hoṭal)short-stay hotel for sex
Japanese ラブホテル, ラブホ
- ラブホテル (rabu hoteru)short-stay hotel for sex
- ラブホ (rabuho)short-stay hotel for sex
- 連れ込み宿 (tsurekomiyado)short-stay hotel for sex
- ブティックホテル (butikku hoteru)short-stay hotel for sex
- ファッションホテル (fasshon hoteru)short-stay hotel for sex
Korean 러브호텔
- 러브호텔 (reobeuhotel)short-stay hotel for sex
Portuguese motel
- motelshort-stay hotel for sex
Russian любо́вный оте́ль, мини-гости́ница
- любо́вный оте́ль (ljubóvnyj otɛ́lʹ)short-stay hotel for sex
- мини-гости́ница (mini-gostínica)short-stay hotel for sex
- гости́ница с почасово́й опла́той (gostínica s počasovój oplátoj)short-stay hotel for sex
- гости́ница на час (gostínica na čas)short-stay hotel for sex
- оте́ль любви́ (otɛ́lʹ ljubví)short-stay hotel for sex
Spanish albergue transitorio, telo
- albergue transitorioshort-stay hotel for sex
- teloshort-stay hotel for sex
- hotel del amorshort-stay hotel for sex
Swedish kärlekshotell
- kärlekshotellshort-stay hotel for sex
Thai เลิฟโฮเต็ล
- เลิฟโฮเต็ล (lə́əf-hoo-dtel)short-stay hotel for sex
Ukrainian готе́ль коха́ння
- готе́ль коха́ння (hotélʹ koxánnja)short-stay hotel for sex
Cite this entry
love hotel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/love%20hotel
“love hotel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/love%20hotel. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “love hotel,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/love%20hotel.
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