2/10 Terrible
Benjamin
29 Sept 2025
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
The hotel location was...not great. It was situated in a tourism/activity dead zone. For whatever reason, the area north of the Yodo river is just inert when it comes to having things to do. The gym had the bare essentials for cadio and weight lifting, so I cannot complain. I just wish there had been a punching bag so I could have relieved the tremendous amounts of stress that had built up during my last day there.
Because as it happens, the staff is about as useful as teats on a man as it pertains to helping waylaid guests who have become stranded on tours. You see, to stave off the ever-encroaching boredom while I was stuck at that hotel for five days, I decided to book a daylong tour that would take me to a bamboo forest and Nara Park, just to name a couple stops on the itinerary. But the tour guide and the bus driver thought it would be really funny to drive off without me (and even pass right by me, looking square at me in the face from the windows) and leave me stranded at the deer park for over eight hours.
I tried to hail a taxi, but after about twenty or so failed attempts (the drivers kept ignoring me for whatever reason) I attempted the train system. But the system was much more complex than the Osaka metropolitan area. I tried asking the teller, but he shooed me away with a "time's up," after discovering I didn't speak Japanese. Tried calling the hotel, but the guy over the phone kept passing the buck along. Only managed to get home thanks to a kind cop.
Benjamin
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2025