Hourly rate motel faces crackdown

This is not April Fools!

With police alleging it is a den of prostitution, the Las Vegas City Council is considering taking the first step toward shuttering the Del Mar XXX Movie Motel, home of the two-hour room rate and complimentary condoms.

"The place has been run like a hot pillow hotel," Assistant City Attorney John Redlein said of the Del Mar, 1411 S. Las Vegas Blvd.

But motel manager Edward Kammer said Thursday that police are wrong about his customers. The people paying $35 to rent rooms at the Del Mar for two hours and view the free adult movies are not hookers or their johns, Kammer said.

So who are they?

"What if you wanted to go and have sex with your wife and you don't want your kids listening while you watch porno with her. You would come here," said Kammer, who in addition to his motel job is a Valley High School math teacher.

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And they are very popular not only with cheating bee-su-nus-men but also with marrieds who live in a tiny house with in laws, grandma and the odd uncles, aunts, and assorted kids. Some of them are themed, with flying saucer beds or swings or whatever...the ads for them are hilarious.