I did a two-night stay at The Strings to use my Ambassador BOGO weekend cert. +1 and I arrived on a Saturday evening at HND Terminal 2 on a domestic ANA flight and took the Keikyu Airport Line to Shinagawa. I've added a Wikipost with (hopefully) helpful instructions on how to navigate the station and get to the hotel, which can be daunting the first time.

I booked a King Classic City View: 31.5 sqm room, which is the highest non-Premium room in the hopes that the one-class Ambassador upgrade would result in a decent outcome. I was pleasantly surprised that our upgrade was to King Premium Club Lounge Access: 38 sqm on the 32nd (top) floor. As posted above, this did *not* grant us Lounge Access, but it was a slightly larger room than the standard King Premium so that was a nice upgrade. Under the current exchange rate, our two-night stay came to about $575 all in.

We was very happy with the quality of the breakfast in the restaurant; in addition to the Japanese and Western options in the buffet, there was also a decent variety of Chinese dim sum, noodles, congee/jook, and fried rice. The only weakness was the bread and pastry options, which was pretty 'meh.' A pleasant surprise was to find that the lovely classical music heard while eating Sunday breakfast was provided by a string quartet sitting just adjacent to the restaurant. Service was top-notch.

On the day we checked out, we had plans to see a DL flight attendant friend of mine who happened to be on a one-night layover later in the morning and have lunch with a co-worker so rather than tie up the room with a late check out, we opted to check out after breakfast and left our luggage with the hotel. We were given options to pick up the bags back at the 26th floor reception area or the second floor elevator lobby; we opted for the second for convenience. We decided to splurge and take a taxi to get to our next hotel (Kimpton Shinjuku); the taxi entrance is on the first floor and reached by the same elevators used to get to the 26th floor lobby. I didn't see any taxis waiting in a queue (there really isn't room for a proper one) so I used Uber to get a taxi. It was only a 100 JPY surcharge to use the app and it had the benefits of giving the driver exact address details of the destination (helpful if one doesn't speak Japanese) and having the charge settled directly to a linked credit card.

Overall, it was a very nice way to use the BOGO getting terrific value in return in terms of room upgrade and Diamond free breakfast amenity.