It looks like Tokyo’s Otaku class will have to find someone else to bathe with. The women dressed as french maids at the hotel “My Home Moe Room” have turned in their costumes and are no longer providing “special services”. Word is the hotel has changed it’s name after barely a month of bookings — one can only imagine that the name itself may have attracted the wrong crowd.

My Home Moe Room opened earlier this summer to much fanfare and considerable media coverage. The hotel was said to be the first of it’s kind catering exclusively to Akihabara Otaku who, among other things, just can’t resist a women dressed as a french maid. At the time of the opening the hotel was being heralded as the latest example of the Otaku’s growing economic influence. While Otaku rarely leave the house, they usually live with their parents and as a result have a surplus of excess cash that enables them to pursue their many obsessions.

My Home Moe Room was sort of a spin-off of Tokyo’s many Cosplay Cafe’s that feature waitresses dressed as cartoon characters and (you guessed it) french maids. The hotel offered a menu of services starting at ¥25,000 per night. “Secret Services” were said to include back washes, but only if the Otaku happened to be bathing in a swim suit.

While the initial enthusiasm surrounding the opening of the hotel lead to 100 bookings in the first day, demand apparently tapered off as the Otaku began to realize the the Secret Services were quite tame. According to one hotel insider:

“Apparently, they were getting requests along the lines of whether it would be possible to slap the maid into a dog collar and chain her up”

It was only a matter of time before the hotel’s clientele realized they were paying 2.5x’s the going rate for a room. Once the reality began to set in the Otaku became quite critical of hotel. One guest complained of the experience:

“The maid outfits were really cheap and tacky. It’s true that they did scrub my back when I got in the bath, but they stayed in their maid’s gear the whole time. With all the options I accepted, it ended up costing me more than 40,000 yen for a single night’s stay. The food and room were nothing spectacular, so overall it seemed really dear. I reckon 15,000 yen a night would have been much better.”

It’s hard to say what the failure of this concept hotel might mean for the future of Otaku targeted accommodations.