8/10 Good
John
19 Apr 2024
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My room at this APA Hotel was near Otsu Dohri facing north. During this period of my stay (Mar 13-15, 2024), night-time outside air temps were in the range of 6~10C, cool enough to sleep with the window barely open.
Cool night-time air is a very good thing: the hotel does not switch its HVAC system from heat-only to A/C only until night-time ambient outside air temperatures reach about 15C at night, about from late fall to late April . (If an air conditioned room is important to restful sleep, I suggest staying at a different APA property or other hotel with full-time, year-round A/C.)
But street noise, including some construction sounds at night across the street on Otsu Dohri precluded a quiet night's sleep unless the window was tightly closed.
Otherwise, the room was comfortable and clean. The bed was nice to sleep on, especially since the staff provided me with two extra blankets on those cool nights. BBC was the only TV channel with English; remaining channels only provided the usual mindless Japanese TV fare.
Hotel staff were splendid, and went out of their way to accommodate my requests.
John
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024