10/10 Excellent
XIANFENG
Traveled with partner
Nov 18, 2024
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is perfectly located in central Osaka, between the old section of Shinsaibashi and new shopping district of Umeda. Plenty of decent restaurants nearby, just using Google Map or Tabelog as a guide.
This hotel offers so many perks that I'm willing to letgo the missing facilities normally associated with a four-star hotel, such as a pool and a gym:
- it's brand new;
- the lobby is spacious with a high ceiling and plenty of natural light; the deco reminds you more of a library; it has a corner bar with drink and coffee dispensers, self-service and free;
- a balcony in each room! that's something worth paying money for. would i be asking too much for a chair & table set too??
- each floor has a water dispenser, a great replacement for bottled water. i just wish the carafe supplied could be a bit bigger - we ended up using used 2L mineral water bottles.
- there is a two-Storey 24/7 supermarket just meters away;
- a utility room complete with washing machines/driers, a vending machine and a microwave oven;
- it has a self-service baggage locker room.
The staff are super friendly, although sometimes Google Translate comes in handy.
The biggest complain, and this isn't the hotel's fault but due to its location being on one of the busiest boulevards in the city: each and every night, there are motorbike gangs (as i later checked out, mostly high school students) doing the rounds, racing down, making huge noises. My advice is to try not to stay on the main streetside.
XIANFENG
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2024