Hooker Hotels

Look, I am not rich, but I love to travel. Sometimes you have to sacrifice the luxuries of an expensive and fancy hotel... sometimes you have to sacrifice the luxuries of a normal, cozy hotel. Sometimes you have to sacrifice your dignity and pride.. and stay in a hooker hotel.

One trip I took to Morelia, Michoacan turned out to be a lot more interesting than I expected. We stayed there for the weekend and went to see the Monarch Butterfiles that migrate to the forests in Michoacan during the winter. I am the kind of person that would rather spend my money on the road than on an expensive hotel just to sleep in, I would almost prefer to just sleep in the car and wake up and drive!

So, the first night we were in Morelia, we stayed at a decent hotel, and I thought that was a hooker hotel. Right next door was a Sex Cinema and there were hookers all over the street that the hotel was on, and plenty of sex shops. Don't get me wrong, I don't have problems with hookers, sex, or porn, but it's different sleeping in a bed someone just had sex in. So the first night, the hotel we stayed in was cheap and normal, and was definitely not a hooker hotel. I realized this after seeing the hotel we were about to stay in the next night.

The second night in Morelia, we wanted an even cheaper hotel so we could save money for the plans we had for the following day. We checked a lot of hostels, hotels and other places. Surprisingly, the hostels in Mexico are fairly expensive compared to hostels in other countries. The hostels here are 'fashionable' and 'cool', and besides that it is an awesome way to meet other travelers and make friends, but that was not what we were looking for that particular night. We wanted extremely cheap, and that is just what we got.

So we arrived at a hotel, not far from were we stayed before. We went inside and it looked clean and nice, and cheap. We asked how much it was for one night... it was 90 pesos, for 2 people. We looked at eachother astonished and could not believe it was true, 90 PESOS A NIGHT? You have to be kidding me right, I have never stayed anywhere so cheap. 90 pesos a person, okay but for both, no way. We should have known right then and there what we were getting ourselves into. So, we asked the receptionist, who was a creepy old man with dark eyes and a hunched back, if the 90 pesos was for one whole night of just one hour. He looked at us like we were ridiculous, but we just could not believe it was so cheap. At this point it was obvious the hotel was for one night stands and for prostitutes and their clients.

There was one problem, all the rooms were full. So he told us to come back in one hour and he would save the room for us. Really he mean, just wait until this couple is done fucking, and you can have the room. We decided it was okay, but I had to be sure, so I checked the rooms in the front first. The rooms were big and had nothing in them but a bed, but they didn't look dirty or diseased so I said okay. We went our for some drinks in downtown in Morelia and waited a while to go back to the hotel.

When we finally arrived back, I saw a tranny walk out from the rooms in the back and a scared looking older man. Look, I like trannys, I have nothing against them at all but sometimes enough is too much and this guy was just horrible. This guy that paid for him must have been desperate, I mean I would rather just be celebit than go anywhere near this hooker. My first thought in that moment was, 'please, Please, PLEASE don't let this be the couple that was in the room we are getting!!!'.

Well, guess who has good luck, NOT ME! The guy at the front desk ran to the back where the couple came out of and was back there about 2 minutes maximum. He came running back out and gave us the keys. Walking back to the room felt like it took decades, I knew that the room was the same as the hooker and I did not want to go.While we were walking down the hall, it was filled with the sound of, no not music, sex. I mean, people were literally screwing in every room there!

We got to the room, and it was obvious that the desk guy had not changed the sheets. He simply put them back gently on the bed and turned on the shower in the bathroom to rinse away whatever was there before, and I don't want to image it. The room was not dirty, the bed was very small but the bathroom was aweful. The room smelled musty an sweaty, like dirty sex. We knew it was the room that the tranny had just came out of.

Across the hall from us was a 3 some going on, two prostitutes and a guy. We were forced to listen to them while we got ready to go out for the rest of the night. And, to be honest, we wanted to listen I mean, come on who wouldn't be curious, it's funny!

Later on that night, we left and went out. Chanfle had forgotten something in the room so I waited outside the hotel on the street, bad idea. Everyone that walked by gave me the dirtiest looks and laughed and whispered things in Spanish as they walked by. I have never been mistaken for a hooker in my life, so this was a first. I suppose if you are standing in front of a prostitute hotel alone, what are people supposed to think. If I was them, I would be wondering what a gringa hooker was doing in Mexico.

I saw the two girls and one guy in the room across from us leave, and they made me want to barf! I mean I have seen the hookers in Mexico City and some of them could be models, they are gorgeous. In Morelia, it was the opposite not one was pretty, or had a nice body, I mean they were all horrible. So if you are looking for a night with a prostitute, do not head to Morelia!

The rest of the night all I could think about was how I was not going to sleep on that bed, and that is exactly what I did. I slept on my jacket in the freezing night with no blankets on, and that is the way I liked it. After a night out until 3am, I usually don't get up so early, but when I woke up at 7am that morning, I got out the bed as fast as I could and got out of there.

It was one of the weirdest and funniest experiences I have had in Mexico, it almost makes me want to go stay in more hooker hotels so I can write about them and my experiences there. You should try it too!

XOXO,

A Curious and Lost Gringa
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