Citadines Kyoto Karasuma-Gojo
We stayed in the Studio Premier with balcony. The room is compact but fully equipped, with excellent use of space/storage. Our room was facing the main road but we found it quiet enough.
The helpful staff provided us with map print outs of the surrounding neighborhood, very handy in locating convenience stores, restaurants, pubs, etc. We frequented Fresco, a local grocery store nearby, for our breakfast and snack supplies. Beside it sits a pharmacy where we bought colds medicines.
We liked the location, almost right in front of the Gojo station with several bus stops around. The main station hub, Kyoto station, is one subway stop away.
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| Hotel logo along the street |
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| King bed with an adjacent sofa bed |
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| Small sized functional kitchen |
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| Room for our stay |
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| Their coin operated laundry room with vending machine was very useful and convenient. |
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| Breakfast area |
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| Lobby reception |
Citadines Central Shinjuku at Tokyo
We felt this hotel was a major letdown from the Ascott properties. I couldn't find my photos of the room itself, I may have deleted it before I transferred the files ooopsss!
The studio deluxe twin room is old and slightly musty, though it's evident the housekeeping staff did its best with the cleanliness. Their wifi was pretty bad, we resorted to using our own portable wifi the whole time. There was a looong wait at the laundry room. One good thing though is its location, a 10-minute leisurely walk to the world's busiest railway station, Shinjuku.
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| Signage by the street |
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| Reception area |
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| Studio deluxe twin room layout. My room photo went missing. Photo credit to Citadines website. |
Cross Hotel at Osaka
We had a 10am flight to Penang from Kansai airport. Both Ravi and Sarah are not early risers so if we come from Tokyo, it would mean waking up about 4am to catch the earliest shinkansen train to Osaka. We didn't want to risk our return flight so we left Tokyo a day earlier, checked in at Osaka and flew back to Penang the next morning.
This hotel is right at the Dotonbori street, famous for its street food and the Glico Man bridge. After check out, I dropped off the pocket wifi in the post box right outside the hotel then Sarah and I went for dinner and shopping. I got her to sleep before 10pm and waited for Ravi to come back, who went out earlier for local drinks. When he arrived, I went out on my own and had midnight snacks of local street foods such as dumplings and takoyaki.
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| Cross Hotel Osaka room number |
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| Twin beds for us. Sarah is already tucked in :) |
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| A modern onsen bath area. |
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