[dayvid]

Sadly, I don't think love hotels would work in America. Too many people disrespect and trash public spaces. It's the same reason they don't have net cafes like they do in Japan (where you can informally crash and use the internet).

[elsonrodriguez]

I don't know how prevalent they are nation-wide, but Miami had quite a few hotels that billed by the hour. Some even had private attached garages so nobody would see you and your date enter the room. The room quality varied depending on the hotel, along with the price, but even the cheaper rooms were passable.

[andrewflnr]

I don't know exactly how common they were, but I've definitely been to an internet café in the US (in a very small town FWIW). AFAICT they're gone because they just don't make economic sense anymore with everyone having a WiFi device already.

[Noumenon72]

Also, public libraries have expanded into the space, using taxpayer dollars to provide the same service for free. Very entrepreneurial of them.

[joezydeco]

They wouldn't work in the anonymous sense of automated check-in and etc. But they do exist.

In the Chicago area there are two: Aura and Sybaris. It's by the evening and not the hour, but Sybaris has been operating here since the 1970s:

https://www.sybaris.com/suites/paradise-swimming-pool-suite/

You also have the honeymoon-based hotels in the Poconos as another example.

https://www.racked.com/2015/6/5/8734965/my-girlfriend-and-i-...

[mturmon]

There are by-the-hour day spas in LA that often serve this purpose. They seem to be used as meet spots for paid hookups, although they serve other uses as well.

[roguecoder]

Bath houses for gay men worked similarly for years in the US.

[monksy]

They're still there as well. (Just not that common) I can think of at least 2 or 3 in Chicago.