Shangrila Tsuruoka Hotel - Kamakura - A Review

We stayed at the Shangrila Tsuruoka Hotel in Kamakura at the start of October 2008. We found the hotel by simply wandering the main street in Kamakura. Definitely, not the best way to find a cheap hotel in a touristy location. However, it's a very good way to get a hotel in a good location! From all of our travels it seems that Price and Location are joined at the hip!

Anyway, here's a review of the Shangrilla Tsuruoka Hotel in Kamakura

Rooms

It's a little tough for us to judge exactly what the rooms are like as we had a deluxe room. No we aren't some rich tourists, tourists yes, rich tourists, no. We stayed in a deluxe room as it was one of the cheaper places to stay in Kamakura. We probably could have looked elsewhere, however, based on the places we'd checked prior to this place they were all around the same price (without the word deluxe attached to the end).

Anyway, our deluxe room was quite nice. It was basically the same as any normal room that we've stayed in Japan, however, it was bit more.... gaudy! The bed spreads, couch and wall paper all looked very dated, not dirty, just dated. The one nice thing about the deluxe room is that we had a very good view of the street with a little patio.

Location

The location of the Shangrila Tsukuroka in Kamakura is almost perfect. You're half way up the main strip between the post office and the main temple. You're close to plenty of restaurants and little shops. In fact, just behind the hotel is a really neat street with lots of cool little shops selling everything from Kimono's to Ice Cream to Fruit.

Price

The price was a bit on the expensive side for the deluxe room, 16000 yen (~$160 Canadian). Again, this is because we had to get a Deluxe Room. However, the 'basic' rooms are one of the cheaper western style hotels in Kamakura.

Overall

Overall this was a good hotel in Kamakura. We actually spent a bit of time as we were exhausted from our hike around Kamakura so it worked out nice to have a decent hotel room. I'd recommend for people to stay here but don't splurge on the Deluxe Room unless you can't find any other cheaper rooms in town.

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