OK, now we're starting to get overwhelmed, we've never been to a city with such rate differences among 5 star hotels. I assume much of it has to do with location and "maybe" quality, but Four Seasons, Park Hyatt are 45-55,000 yen/night; Westin Tokyo is 40,000 yen/night; Meridien Pacific Tokyo 22,000yen/night; and Sheraton Miyako 25,000 yen/night. Why such big rate differences for the same nights in the same catergory of deluxe room? Is there REALLY such a big difference in quality? We booked 2 rooms at the Park Hyatt in October at the rate of 48,000 per room per night and are started to ask if it's worth the money when we look at rates at other 5 star hotels.

The other thing that confuses us is the distances, eg, Narita to Park Hyatt is 1 hour 40 minutes whereas Narita to the Westin Tokyo we were told is only 1hour.

another thing,Tokyo Airporter(which was mentioned in another post) will take us from Narita to Park Hyatt for 20,000 yen but the hotel says the rate is about 45,000 yen. Of course the hotel is going to be more expensive everywhere, but twice as much as a "normal" car service?