Oh, Canada! Newest, Sexiest Hotel Room in the World Is Just Across the US/Canadian Border
The Love Nest mixes futuristic pleasures with retro glam
Hotel Zed’s newest specialty room, The Love Nest, is more than just a pretty place—its purpose is steeped in sex-positivity and a host of other foundational values and commitments.
Hotel Zed will launch its newest specialty room, The Love Nest, this coming June at their Victoria, British Columbia (BC) location. This specialty room is designed specifically for romance and sexual pleasure. Though designed with a retro 1970s theme, it was created with up to the minute consideration of maximizing pleasure for different body types, genders, and relationships.
Mandy Farmer, CEO of Hotel Zed, told Drift Travel, “Sex has always happened in hotel rooms –and I am passionate about creating a place for enhanced intimacy and celebrating sex positivity.”
Drift Travel described The Love Nest as setting “a new standard for sexual wellness and experiences in the Canadian hotel industry. Created with intentional inclusivity, The Love Nest provides guests with a variety of options for exploration and pleasure for all relationships and all bodies.”
Farmer added, “Good sex is empowering and conversations about sex need to be brought out into the open. There is no shame here.”
Canoodle in color
Not only is there no shame at Hotel Zed, but The Love Nest itself is entirely celebratory.
From maroon to bright red, The Love Nest is all about the colors of passion: red faux marble walls; bold red, orange, and peach wallpaper; and even warm bronze-gold marble in the bathroom. The room itself is a 1970s retro-inspired James Bond-style hideaway, complete with mood lighting, a velvet-covered playpen sofa—thankfully with washable upholstery—a wet bar and counter with stools, and even a dance pole with an optional sex swing.
However, for those in need of more ergonomic support, The Love Nest also features a Tantric Chaise designed to take pressure off of joints and muscles. A large Wet Room, with a bathtub big enough for two, has five strategically placed shower-heads and lots of grab bars. One can easily imagine…
Refreshing, diverse, inclusive, fun—and Canadian
Hotel Zed’s core values are decidedly progressive. As the company puts it:
Diversity, equity and inclusion are rooted in our culture, and we are committed to advancing our company in these areas. We are currently working with a third-party consultant to build our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy and advance this journey while acting with intention, transparency and accountability.
All three Hotel Zeds, and Roar, the Tofino-based restaurant, are “Rainbow Registered,” an accreditation granted by Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce for businesses that “ensure 2SLGBTQIA folks feel welcome, safe, and accepted.” Hotel Zeds offer PRIDE discounts during celebrations in June and July.
Much more than just lavish and quirky decor
The three Hotel Zeds are part of Accent Inns Inc., a Canadian hotel and restaurant chain that has received numerous awards, such as Waterstone’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures from 2021-2024.
According to Business Examiner, the company has also received various awards for community as well as commercial building.
Examples of Accent Inn’s community building include: reduced room rates for health workers exposed to Covid needing to isolate from their families; support for bus drivers, teachers, and grocery workers in British Columbia, as well as a children’s charity and the BC Humane Society.
Accent Inn supports another cause, Good Night Out, a consent culture organization located in Vancouver, BC. GNO is known for creating a late night street team in a popular entertainment district to diminish and stop incidents of gender-based violence.
The shape of futures past
The Love Nest’s retro decor—and its spirit—hearkens back to the 1970s, the period known as the first big Sexual Revolution. And while much of that movement was shaped in the US and flowed from sex radicals of that era, it is with bittersweet feelings—decades later—that I now view The Love Nest and all its celebratory glory from across a border which at present I don’t dare cross. `
I trust that all such joyous and wholesome initiatives will continue to flourish in Canada and elsewhere. When the US finally digs itself out of its unnecessary “culture war” pit, I hope that we can all again enjoy a future of sex- and gender-positive diversity, equity, and inclusion, and that I’ll finally be able to book a sexy stay in The Love Nest, without worry.
Image Source: A.R. Marsh using Ideogram.ai
