Originally Posted by jpdx

Meh, found the hotel decidedly middling on our recent stay. The standard rooms just have such a poor layout. Club lounge breakfast is weak compared to similarly positioned hotels (say, GH Fukuoka, IC Strings/Osaka) and evening hour is a zoo. Veuve is flowing freely, but the food offerings are nothing to write home about, and it's just so, so busy, with other guests and staff bumping into you around the buffet. Different strokes for different folks, so if you like the place, enjoy. I haven't stayed here with appreciable frequency since 2015, and this recent stay reminded me of why. I wonder if there's anyone who pays those rates of 300,000 yen they post on busy weekends, for the standard room, or 400,000 for a club room? Should make the move to Cat 7 more palatable, at least; honey, we saved $14,000 on our 4-night stay, what a smart redemption!

On a practical note, we took the Limousine Bus to NRT. I've never been a fan of the Limousine Bus, just find it maddening how it trundles from one hotel to the next for half an hour+ before getting on the freeway. Post-Covid, the schedule has been reduced significantly. The bus from GHT now calls at the usual area hotels, then gets on the freeway and heads to TCAT, where in our case it sat for 22 minutes and filled up completely. I had assumed that -like in the past- a scheduled 12:25 arrival would get in no later than 11:45, but nope, we arrived pretty much on the dot.