Made my first stay here a few nights ago, a short one-night stopover en route to Huis Ten Bosch. We arrived after 3 and left before noon, so I ended up speedrunning through the Globalist benefits like Cartman at Casa Bonita.

Actually, I don't think that any of benefits we received were the result of being Globalist, on account of using a points and cash rate to book a Diplomat Suite, which comes with club and pool/spa access that's normally covered for Globalists. While being little more than a regular Grand Executive Suite at GHT, the three of us were quite appreciative of all the space, and they gave us some really nice arrival gifts like fruits and Japanese style suites. Some nice books in the suite as well; if you ever get the chance to stay in this suite, definitely check out the book on the Seven Stars Kyushu train, which from the looks of it, would make almost anyone's bucket list to experience.

The Club Lounge is still under renovation, so the Club Benefit was still split up into three areas.

The Market F served light refreshments as described above. I took advantage of the one alcoholic beverage and had a nice gin tonic. It's better than nothing, but I certained preferred being able to get things on my own.

The Bar Fizz evening offerings were by far the highlight. Plenty of good drinks were served. The canapes were tough to make a meal out of (I would say it's below Hyatt Regency Osaka in that regard, but I haven't been there post-COVID, so not sure if it's still fair to say that). While there's a nice view of the foundations, from night time they do projection mapping shows with the fountains every 30 minutes where they close the shade. While they do some nice projection mapping indoors for the benefits of the lounge guests, you should defintitely step outside at least once to watch one of these shows, as they are quite impressive. Think they rotated two shows, one with e One Piece theme, and another that was sort of Christmas-like, despite it being December 26th at the time.

The Martini's drink benefit baffles me. Since it is only one drink, I thought they would offer something special. But no, if anything, they give you a choice of one drink from a menu that is even more limited than the one available with the canapes in Bar Fizz. It also ended at 9pm, the same time the Bar Fizz offerings ended. So you get only one drink that you could also get in the other place, with no canapes, and with a worse environment than the lounge. I have no idea what the point of this is.

Club Olympus was fine. Got a swimsuit and stepped in the jacuzzi really quick. I thought the bath was fine, but my family were not fans at all, calling it "cheap looking with a strong smell of chlorine".

Breakfast in Market F was quite decent. I judge a breakfast buffet by its Eggs Benedict (if it doesn't have Eggs Benedict, it's not worthy of being judged), and it was quite tasty, albeit on the small side. Certainly much better than the stuff I would go on to have at the Forest Villa for the remainder of our trip.

Overall, I was happy with the use of points and cash. It's a fairly convenient stopever if you're using Hakata as a bridge between points, but even though I would have liked to have checked out ACROS Fukuoka, I doubt I'll ever go out of my way to return to the area again.

The tempura restaurant adjacent to Club Fizz shut down on October 31st. Maybe there?