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Old Dec 11, 2023 | 5:13 pm
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thesun
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Originally Posted by ElevatorEnthusiast
I’m not sure if it was because my body was in shock staying 7 nights at a single hotel, but I left the Hyatt Place Kyoto quite satisfied. It’s not perfect, but it worked with my budget and had a nice location.
It looks like you overlapped with my 10 day stay, I checked out the day after you posted this!

I enjoyed my stay as well, as a mere Discoverist, due to Hyatt not having enough properties, I booked with Chase points converted to Hyatt points. Got a room with the "courtyard" view, aka a view of the opposite corridor wall, which didn't bother us given the hotel's central Kyoto location, we didn't feel like we were missing any sort of view. The only thing I wish we had was a bathtub for soaking tired feet from too much walking and standing. But we did like that the shower had an actual door and it actually sealed properly, meaning no water all over the floor like many other hotels (particularly the US I suppose, and Europe).

The biggest unanticipated bonus was the busses to Karasuma Marutamachi are not nearly as busy as busses that pass through Kyoto Station, and many tourist sites were a single no-transfer bus ride away. Very different from previous visits where I've stayed elsewhere or at the Shin-Osaka Courtyard.

The two Nespresso machines in the lobby turned out to be an annoyance at times because they would frequently run out of milk and less frequently water. The one in the lobby on the left often would dispense milk but not coffee. The one on the right broke one evening, seems like the milk module died as they disabled it the day after. I assume the restaurant area had additional/different coffee machines as we never saw anyone coming from there. We typically had onigiri for breakfast from 7-11 which we were totally happy with so never experienced the restaurant.

Overall, we paid the equivalent of $200 USD a night, and we were completely satisfied at this price point.
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