US Hotels/Motels - Need advice

[U2Fan101]

So I have recently took a job where I travel a lot with overnight stays. Since I started, I have stayed probably a total of 30 nights in a variety of hotels. Hilton (Hampton, DoubleTree), Holiday Inn Express, Best Western. 30 nights...I've had not one luck. In fact, I used to hear either my neighbors or hotel noises a lot. The last 1-2 years I have struck out every time. Not one sound anywhere.

Are there chain advices? Floors that are better than others, stars, rating advice...anything that I might be able to get lucky and score?

[robcanvas]

Modern Hiltons are camera central. Marriotts are generally alot better in that regard (as is BW and Holiday Inn).

The older, the better.

[mjj9994]

Super 8 and Motel 6 type hotels are probably more likely to attract the type of clientele you seek. When I think Hilton, Marriott, etc I think families with children.

[Quadrophenia1]

Good luck, U2Fan101!! "Empowered" American women are an absolute riot to hear slowly going crazy. MJJ9994 is probably right with the type of place to go to. A lot of the newer places have thick cement, which makes things nearly impossible.

[audiophile444]

U2Fan101, I am a fairly new member so please take that into account. My experience with hotels/motels stems from my quest for finding suitable hot sheet accommodations for the occasional afternoon sessions I was able to arrange through various adult dating sites and with a steady woman friend I see about once every one or two months. (I'm in a dry spell now and haven't been in a motel for over two years.) I avoided the chain motels because usually one has to walk past a reception area and the women I met did not want to be spotted by any one. They wanted to drive up to the door of a motel room or at least to a stairway leading to a room. Now that does not necessarily mean that the cheaper hotels have thinner walls but one can assume so. The women I dated dif not mind being heard. In fact it turned them on. One time, after a session I found a couple lurking about the parking lot. They walked up to us and complemented us on our performance and asked if we would be interested in a foursome sometime. My date was not into group sex and I did not like the looks of the couple, so we both passed. The point of my long reply is that if you do not need to stay downtown anywhere, and have a rental car at your disposal you can easily find low-cost, clean motels on side roads and off main highways that undoubtedly will give you loads of opportunity for recorders and maybe even though it is long shot there may even be a slight chance to join in. Just google any community for motels. The low end ones are what you want. Then check them out. The pure hot sheet motels will even have overnight action- several occupants in one night even. I had the good fortune one time outside of St. Louis to find a motel about an hour from downtown, which would have been perfect for recording - I never thought of doing it at the time. I met a woman there for a late afternoon session and stayed on overnight. I had two couples at different times on one side of me and one couple on the other side. It was not all good sex but one couple rocked my wall even though they did not say a lot. In fact, the guy lost his load early and she begged him to finish her off - Please help me, she pleaded - I could not tell if he did even though I had my ear pressed practically through the wallboard. I think she got angry with him and they just went to sleep. If you must stay downtown, then go for the cheaper chains, the older the better as robcanvas pointed out. You will probably score. I hope this is not gratuitous advice and is helpful. Audiophile

[AdamMK0147]

I know one place you can try that has a bit on Sex noises here and There and that would be at The Hard Casino in Tampa,Florida but the rooms are very Expensive to rent one just for one night but you can catch a lot of moaning and Bed Squeaking and Creaking and Thumps and headboards hitting the walls from people making love inside the hotel room at The Hard Rock Casino in Tampa.

[edtraveller]

1) You have to get out of the room and walk- unless you're in a brothel, odds are against your having anything happen with your neighbors. Walking and repeating will increase those odds.

2) Flip side of Super 8 and similar is since doors are outside, door gaps are much tighter so reduces your chances.This is why I am now staying at places with inside corridors.

3) Good sites are
TripAdvisor
You can search reviews for sex noise complaints at any hotel or motel

Room77.com
Shows percentage of type of guests - couples vs solo vs family vs business

[edtraveller]

One other thing I do is try to get photos - tripadvisor.com is great for this - especially 'traveler's photos' Some actually have corridor shots so you can get a lay of the land - seeing if there are cameras present; color of door frames, any sconces or other places to conceal mics.

Also, it helps me avoid certain hotels as well such as those with open atriums instead of corridors. First, the atrium background noise can be brutal as far as interference. Also, anyone can see you anytime from any other place in the hotel. In a corridor, you say "Hi" cheerfully to a security chap and then what protects you is 'out-of-sight-out-of-mind' - but in the atrium situation - you are never out of sight - so are possibly then drawing unwanted scrutiny.

Back to motels - there used to be a great little place in Glendora, CA - The Guest Inn (not to be confused with Guest House). They had two wings with a garden and waterfall in between. The left had all the double rooms for families; the right and the connecting wing were not only all King rooms - but had ceiling mirrors. Friday and Saturday nights was nothing but couples .. and me. And the walls were just slightly thicker than Shoji doors. Place was destroyed and replaced with a sterile family-oriented Best Western Plus - checked it out - dry as a bone - and cameras - all of which are watched by the bored counter person. Most cameras here are for data collection retrieval in the event access is necessary, but rarely viewed real time by any live person. Wish I still had my micro tapes from those days (1990s)

Searched long and hard for an equivalent in this area. Fox Inn and a neighboring place were the only ones I found. Both have super thick walls, outdoor walkways - which are watched 24/7 by a live security person in the parking lot.

Relating this because if you can find a diamond in the rough like the Guest Inn, you could get some spectacular through-wall recordings. If that place were still running, I'd be there every weekend - much less $$$ than the hotels..

[edtraveller]

Daddy O Hotel - Bal Harbor (Ft Lauderdale) FL

Hey if anyone here is living or traveling to Miami, check this place out! Looks clean and fun, price is reasonable and according to Room77 and TripAdvisor, majority of guests are couples and reviewers all mention hearing sex noise!

[AdamMK0147]

The Best Hotel in my Opinion is The Hard Rock Casino in Tampa,Florida when I usually go there every two weeks I'm always seeing young couples go up the elevator to their rooms and some of the girls that I see they wear tight skirts and Dresses and have some very big breast and nice asses and usually the people who stay there are Businessmen with their wives or girlfriends and sometimes if your lucky you can catch a Porn Star staying there filming a Porn movie

[AdamMK0147]

Modern Hiltons are camera central. Marriotts are generally alot better in that regard (as is BW and Holiday Inn).

The older, the better.

speaking of hotels I Just stayed at a starwood hotel ( Sheraton ) not saying which city but I'm keeping it anon for now but I recently stayed there yesterday and checked out this evening and with my luck of hearing sex sounds let's just that the doors that I say had a very little gap under it as no recorder could fit under it and plus the walls are concrete so it's hard to anything on the other side as I tried patrolling at least four of the floors at where I stayed at and I had no luck with it all as it a mix of families and business travelers so the hotel was more modern so if your looking to hear sex sounds at a Marriott or Sheraton or Hilton then good luck because mostly it's families that stay there or solo travelers sometimes but they don't have camera's so that's the good thing but as as far as anything else just make sure nobody else is coming down the hall when your recording because you don't want to be caught in the process.

[AdamMK0147]

Question : How long should one linger in the hallway of a hotel to capture sounds before Security takes suspecision and asks you why you are lingering against the wall on your phone? as I have researched about certain apps on the app store that are able to zero in on sounds that's further down the hallway as it's called " Mobile Ears " and it's able to pick sounds you would'nt " Normally " hear with your ears as it's like a supersonic Ear app so it gives you the choice of turning up the dial to where the sound gets louder and is crystal clear it's like you can even hear peoples conversations so to me this is like a new way of giving Security Excuses of why you're hanging out in the hallway passed midnight.