54austin

5000 Yen seems less generous than a champagne and canapé happy hour - especially if two people are in a room - but certainly more flexible. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out. I’ll be there for four nights in November and will report back.

Nagasaki Joe

As nexusCFX stated, it's 10K for the first night and 5K for each subsequent night, so if you stay just two nights, it's 7,500 yen/night (close to what it costs to buy 2 bottles of Pommery in Japan at retail price). Although I like champagne, this provides more flexibility to try other things at the hotel. Based on the list of things you could use the credit on, it looks like ROKU was probably not having much luck getting customers to spend money on the various hotel services it offers, so this may be a solution to address that. If you were to stack the various credits mentioned in the above post, you'd even have enough to pay for the Chef's Table for two, which I believe costs about 34,000 yen/person.

54austin

true, and one is not beholden to a specific window of time.

nexusCFX

This is all true. I don't really drink and am normally solo traveling so it's a big win for me, but I get that if you do, you can blow past 5000 yen pretty easily with two people going to happy hour, and that the per-night credit amount approaches 5000 as the length of the stay increases.

I think the generous thing is that it's usable as one big credit so you can use it toward dinners or spa treatments, etc, on your own time, and don't have to try and use up a fixed credit per day like how some F&B elite benefits work.

Tilto007

We will be there from Nov 20-23 so I will also report my experience.Hoping to find some nice fall leaves to view.

54austin

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Just noticed this doesn’t note any dining discount, which upthread someone said was 25% for Diamonds. If that has been replaced by the daily credit - and along with the loss of the happy hour - these new Diamond benefits are watered down quite a bit.

zoneflyer

Posting the new "Experience Credit" PDF here to anyone interested.
By the way, has anyone tried the Chef's Menu (35,420 JPY, wine pairing included) dinner set course before? Wondering if it is worth it over the regular "Roku" (15,180 JPY) dinner set menu. We have $500 resort credits from Aspire to burn over an one night stay in Nov plus stacking the new 10,000 JPY experience credit, likely will end up booking couple sessions of their SPA services.

About the Kintsugi experience, here is the information I got from the concierge: "The Kintsugi work shop will prepare broken ceramics and make them ready for you to mend the breakage area with lacquer and gold. The fee of the program is 20,000 JPY per person. Duration is approximately 90 min to 120 min (maximum). The venue will be close from the hotel and will take about 10 minutes by car. Regarding the experience schedule, we will check the availability with the teacher so if you have any other plan, kindly let us know in advance so that we are able to adjust with your schedule."

Nagasaki Joe

On the ROKU Kyoto website under Offers, there are some additional discounts posted including this one that offers a 25% discount (there does not appear to be any code attached to the discount but you may have to book directly with Hilton to get it) on dining at Tenjin (Chef's Table is located within Tenjin, so the discount may apply there as well), which you may be able to stack with the Experience Credit, the FHR property credit, and the $250 Aspire Card resort credit for about $450 (or about 65,000 yen) in credits on just a 2-night stay (though most people would probably want to stay longer), and an additional 5,000 yen per night for additional nights stayed. Plus, the 25% discount on dining makes the credit even more meaningful and would even cover the cost of the Chef's Table.

• Luxurious accommodation
• 25% savings on Restaurant Tenjin
• Daily breakfast for 2 adults
• Premium Wi-Fi
• Free early check-in, and late check-out where available

https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/itm...-kyoto/offers/

kmandrew

Just booked 8 night trip into ITM out of KIX for summer
Thinking first night at the Conrad - land at 5:45 pm - J seats but obviously will be tired
On to Kyoto the next afternoon
Choice 1 - 2 nights at the new HGI - 140k for 2 nights then 5 nights at the Roku - 440k (5th night free) = 580k
Choice 2 - 5 nights at HGI - 280k then 2 nights here - 220k = 500k
My wife likes luxury so says option 1 no question
I assume we can do our day trips (- normal tourist stuff Nara, ect) from either location?

Suggestions?

CPH-Flyer

If you have never been to Kyoto before, and want to cover a good amount of sights, option 2. Just a so much more accessible location, also for dinners.

kmandrew

Thanks, that’s my thought
After five days of enjoying Kyoto the Roku would be our reward at the end.
I would bet we won’t even leave the property - I assume the $250 AX credit will disappear pretty fast at dinner?
I do have just enough points for 5 nights at the Hyatt Place, thoughts on the HGI vs Hyatt Place?

CPH-Flyer

I'd say the HGI has a slight upper hand in location by being a tad more central. But nothing major. I have not stayed at either, HGI is not open yet and Hyatt House just not gotten around to yet.

frudd38

Anyone have recommendations for a transfer to KIX? It looks like a taxi could run around 30k yen and presumably no airport bus goes to the property (just Kyoto station?).

CPH-Flyer

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Taxi to Kyoto Station and the Haruka airport express train to KIX.

frudd38

Thank you. Does the Haruka airport express need to be booked ahead of time?