CutiCuti: Japan - Taiyo Hotel, Osaka

Property: Taiyo Hotel, Osaka

Date:  10 April - 11 April 2014 (2 nights)

Price: 2,100 Yen/night & 4,200 Yen/night

Room Type: Single Room & Twin Room (no breakfast)

Booked via agoda.com. 

  

Direction to the hotel is attached in the website. Click the link (here) for more info. 

The hotel entrance.

Reception counter. The staffs speak pretty good English so we have no problem checking in. 

Common area. 

Dining area. Hot & cold water is available for free. This is located at the lobby level.

Lobby level. 200 Yen to use the washing machine & 100 Yen for dryer.

Next to the laundry is this dressing area.

Here's the 'challenge' for the hotel guests (apparently not for Yours Truly as I found this concept kinda cute). The private showers (accessible 24 hours) are located at the same level as the reception counter, dining, laundry & dressing area. We stayed at the 5th Floor. So yeah, every time we wanna take our bath...we have to go down to the lobby. Surprisingly, there was never a long queue despite having only 2 shower rooms available in the hotel.

Apart from the private shower rooms, the hotel also has a Japanese style public bath (onsen). It is located next to the laundry-dressing-private showers area. This public bath is scheduled for each gender. 

I was pretty intrigued to try this but ended up not having the chance to try at all. We went back from the town quite late throughout our stays there. Furthermore this public bath is only open after 4pm. The ladies could only use it from 9pm to 1150pm onwards. 

Toilets (unisex) are provided at each floor. Ladies Only toilet are available at 2nd, 4th & 6th Floor (Ladies Only Floor). Western style toilet (with bidet) is located at the 6th Floor.

Single room (Western Style). I stayed here for a night & joined Ms G on the 2nd night as Ms H went back a day earlier than us. 

Room amenities: Face towel, toothbrush & toothpaste. And a yukata. To have that Japanese feeling, I wear it when I go shower. Walau ndak sempat mandi di public bath tu. 

The Japanese Style Room (Twin). I would really love to stay at this kinda room. Tatami floor room as the Japanese called it.

Unfortunately due to our ever-changing itinerary, I missed the chance to book the room. The only rooms available are the Western Style. Hence the reason I booked for 2 twin rooms & one single room for the 5 of us. There is no triple room for the Western Style room. 

Apart from having to go down all the way to the lobby just to bath, I don't have any complain throughout our stay here. In fact, I don't really mind about the 'have to go down to the lobby to bath' thingy. Whats more important is the cheap price. For a single room, the rate offered is quite a bargain. For me that is. 

Wifi connection is super fast because each floor has its own modem (different password). Air conditioner/heater works well. Nice & helpful staffs. Complete basic amenities i.e hot/cold water, microwave, vending machines, desktops.

Thanks to John because I found out about this hotel from his blog. 

And thanks to Jari Manis for the 'Page tab tutorial'. If it wasn't for the tutorial, I wouldn't have the page tab i.e Supertapaki, Accommodation added to my blog. Also, I would have not noticed that I haven't put up a review entry for this hotel. 

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