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Business hotels with fast internet? Tokyo/Osaka
It's too late for this trip, but anyone have great web surfing experience with hotels around Tokyo or Osaka? The only reason I ask is that I can't do remote desktop or Skype/GV if the Internet connection is that unstable.
I'm abandoning Toyoko after hearing about their awful tendencies, but the Tokyu Stay I'm at is actually worse.
If it weren't for that one complaint, everything else would have been perfect for the price they're charging.
So, anybody know any business hotels with a consistently good Internet connection? (Preferably one with a membership program that gives discounts.)
I stayed in the Comfort Hotel Ohtemachi in Hiroshima on my last trip, and they had fast in-room wi-fi, as well as a generous breakfast buffet.
I just had a smartphone and an iPad on the trip, so I was not able to avail myself of the wired Internet connection at the Dormy Inn, Kurashiki, but the lobby computers were fast, so that might be an option if you have an Ethernet port. However, their breakfast buffet was an extra ¥1100 and was very, very Japanese with little to appeal to those of us who like eggs and wheat products in the morning. The room was the nicest I found for a business hotel price, though.
The Welcome Hotel in Kochi also had good wi-fi and a generous breakfast buffet.
I don't stay in hotels often enough to know which chains have membership programs, but the Comfort Hotels seem to be the most widespread of the chains other than the Toyoko Inn, and they're part of Choice Hotels.
I've never stayed at a Super Hotel, and they don't advertise Internet connections on either their English or their Japanese pages, but the FAQ sections of both websites say that guests are forbidden to transfer files on the hotel's system.
... I don't stay in hotels often enough to know which chains have membership programs, but the Comfort Hotels seem to be the most widespread of the chains other than the Toyoko Inn, and they're part of Choice Hotels...
I use Choice as one of my local, quick-stay, points-earning hotel chains. In this country, Comfort Inns & Suites are a cut below Hilton Garden Inn and the like but not by much. In Japan, they are pretty widely available and tend to be a bit better than here at home. Breakfast buffet, on-site coin laundry, sometimes with queen or king beds, usually near stations and consistently decent wi-fi. That is pretty much all I need so I use them often. There are a couple of locations in Tokyo but I have never used them. Have used Comfort Hotels in Nagoya, Nara, Sendai, Okayama, Kochi, Fukuoka, Nagasaki and a few others. I usually search and book right through the Choice Hotels website here in the states and they take care of everything.
Recommended if you don't need up-scale hotel amenities.
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Thanks for the replies. How was the breakfast at the Choice Hotel locations - what is their selection like? There's a few in Tokyo; the Kanda one seems to be the most convenient (at least to/from Narita)
Pretty basic buffet with several Japanese selections - coffee, tea, miso soup and other soups, negiri rice balls, salads, hard boiled eggs, sausage - along with some western breads, pastries, cereals, milk and juices, donuts, fruit. Not fancy but filling and it usually varies a bit from day to day.
In Hiroshima, they had cereal, a variety of rolls, scrambled eggs, ham, yogurt. fruit, coffee, and juice on the Western side and miso soup, o-nigiri, tossed salad, and a few other things I don't recall. (I love Japanese food, but a Japanese breakfast always feels more like lunch to me, so I prefer Western style if I can get it.)
The standard-issue Toyoko Inn breakfast is miso soup and o-nigiri (rice balls) period. Oh, and you can have coffee, too.
I've seen Toyoko Inns that serve raisin buns instead of the Japanese options and one that served scrambled eggs alongside the Japanese options, but never one that had the variety available at the Comfort Hotel in Hiroshima, with its choice of Western and Japanese breakfast items.
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It's too late for this trip, but anyone have great web surfing experience with hotels around Tokyo or Osaka? The only reason I ask is that I can't do remote desktop or Skype/GV if the Internet connection is that unstable.
I'm abandoning Toyoko after hearing about their awful tendencies, but the Tokyu Stay I'm at is actually worse.
If it weren't for that one complaint, everything else would have been perfect for the price they're charging.
So, anybody know any business hotels with a consistently good Internet connection? (Preferably one with a membership program that gives discounts.)
I use my Regus membership for that purpose, if I cant get good connection in an SPG property.
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It's too late for this trip, but anyone have great web surfing experience with hotels around Tokyo or Osaka? The only reason I ask is that I can't do remote desktop or Skype/GV if the Internet connection is that unstable.
I'm abandoning Toyoko after hearing about their awful tendencies, but the Tokyu Stay I'm at is actually worse.
If it weren't for that one complaint, everything else would have been perfect for the price they're charging.
So, anybody know any business hotels with a consistently good Internet connection? (Preferably one with a membership program that gives discounts.)
I won't stay at Toyoko Inns-I use a MagicJack to call home, and it does not work at any Toyoko Inn. I believe they block a port that it uses (sorry, not a tech expert) and I had read they do some other messing around with internet access to thwart certain kinds of business use. So, they are off the list for me.
I have stayed at Super Hotels a number of times . The rooms are certainly not fancy. I stay primarily at ones with an onsen/Japanese bath type facility. Their internet is super fast and stable...possibly the fast connections I ever had were at those hotels.
Other chains have been Dormy Inns and Comfort Hotels-no issues with internet.
Obviously, being Japan these were all wired connections.
PS-if staying Super Hotels, you can often get better rates if you can figure out their Japanese website instead of the English one (also Rakuten Japanese site as well)
