Originally Posted by
Nagasaki Joe
Thanks for the excellent photos. Sorry to hear about your problems with the ROKU Kyoto stay and curious to know what the problem was since I'll be staying there early next year. That said, your room at the PH Kyoto was pretty awesome, I love the spacious garden view. I'm saving up my Hyatt points for a stay there sometime in 2022. The only thing I find a little amiss, IMO, is the heavy stone (or marble) in the bathroom doesn't really mesh well with the lighter Japanese wooden interior. Still, I look forward to my stay there.
Re Roku... mainly a communications/responsiveness issue and inability to get reservations to hotel dining venues a week ahead of time as an in-residence guest (and the hotel did not seem that heavily booked). That being said, I've got another reservation at Roku in early-April and greatly looking forward to exploring that property. Re the marble... I initially thought the same, but after seeing it in person I actually think it works quite well. The bathhouse is all dark marble floors/baths/showers with light wooden walls, so the contrast is even more noticeable than the guestroom room bathrooms. To me, it creates a nice inviting luxurious balance in style.
Originally Posted by
beachfan
Thanks for the great review FB. Is that garden private or do you have a guests walking by?
Yes, the garden is private. Most of the garden terrace rooms only have a very small garden immediately behind the terrace. I think there is only 1 or 2 of the garden terrace rooms with a private rock garden of this size.
-FlyerBeek