Lee makes a good point. We've found that, particularly on weekends, a nice room at a high-end hotel often isn't more than $20-30 more than a motel 6, and if you plan it right, you can get 4 or 5 shoots done by doing early check-in at 10am and arranging to check out late the following day.

But it never occurred to me to tell the hotel we were shooting porn and build up a rapport with them... I guess they specialize in discretion, and money is money, so most of them probably wouldn't mind.

I remember a video a few years back, I think it was "Crucial Encounters," that supposedly took place in a "college dorm" but it was really obvious that said "college dorm" was a 2 floor hotel suite... the giveaway was the towel rack in the bathroom stuffed with hotel towels and the hotel notice on the back of the door to the suite