Hotel Grande Shinonome Tsukuba - A Review

We stayed at the Hotel Grande Shinonome in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan at the end of September 2008. We stayed here during a conference that Lindsay was attending at the Tsukuba Internation Congress Center. Here is a review of our stay at the Hotel Grande Shinonome.

Location

The Hotel Grande Shinonome is located approximately 5-10 minutes (walking) from the Tsukuba Train Station. To get to most of major attractions (Tsukuba Expo, Conference Center or Train Station) you're looking at a 10-15 minute walk or approximately 1-2 km.

English Language

When checking-in and talking to anyone at the front desk we are always able to speak to someone in English. Although, we'd like to practice our Japanese (or lack thereof) this makes a very nice way of simply getting your room.

Hotel Class

The hotel seems quite nice, the American equivalent would probably be somewhere around a Ramada Inn. Obviously, we've stayed in better and worse hotels but this is a quite comfortable hotel. In fact, outside there is a well Japanese manicured garden and pond.

Rooms

The rooms themselves are small (as expected) but clean and comfortable. Although, we've both remarked on how the beds (yes, plural as they're are two twin beds for a 'double' room) are rather hard. One neat thing about the room is the shower and tap combination where you have a leaver that allows you to switch between either the shower head or the sink. Just don't try and wash your hands while someone is having a shower (trust me!).

I've made a YouTube video of the hotel room for everyone to see, so enjoy.

Weirdness

The weirdest part of the hotel is our bathroom. To get into the bathroom there is a large step (8 inches) up. This is not that bad going into the bathroom but actually leaving, especially at 3am in the morning! I swear that if I stayed here for longer then a week I'd have two rolled ankles.

Overall

Overall we really enjoyed our stay and would definitely stay at the Hotel Grande Shinonome again. It's a reasonably priced, within walking distance and clean and comfortable.

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