Tokyo: if familiar with Sheraton Mikayo vs Crowne Metropolitan?
Mar 1, 2008, 11:29 am
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Tokyo: if familiar with Sheraton Mikayo vs Crowne Metropolitan?
Which would be your choice on pay basis assuming you could get then for about the same Y?
How about on Awards: Mikayo 7,000 SPG and Metroplitan 25,000 Priority points?
How about on Awards: Mikayo 7,000 SPG and Metroplitan 25,000 Priority points?
Mar 2, 2008, 9:41 am
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Crown Metro is a business hotel on the weekdays and a lot of weddings on the weekends. Busy, clean, Free Internet, and right next to a large train station. But for the most part not exactly in the center of any tourist areas. Outside of business travelers, it's popular with Travel Agents because it has one of the lowest TA rates in Tokyo (on King Beds no less).
However, if all prices are equal the Sheraton is the way to go.
However, if all prices are equal the Sheraton is the way to go.
Mar 2, 2008, 9:56 am
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One word: Ikebukuro. On the other hand, it is a 2 minute walk from an architectural cluster featuring among other things, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's remaining works in Japan, the Myonichikan school. The other one is in Kobe.
Mar 2, 2008, 11:22 am
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It was moved from Tokyo to Meiji Mura, Inuyama. But it's only a shell of what it once was.
Mar 2, 2008, 11:23 am
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It's not like Ikebukuro is bad. There's just not more than a half day's worth of things to do there. On the plus side it's very easy to get around, there are English Language maps on almost every block. But yeah, in reality you'll spend very little time in Ikebukuro, and a lot of time on the JR Yamanote going to where the action is.
Mar 2, 2008, 5:26 pm
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It's not like Ikebukuro is bad. There's just not more than a half day's worth of things to do there. On the plus side it's very easy to get around, there are English Language maps on almost every block. But yeah, in reality you'll spend very little time in Ikebukuro, and a lot of time on the JR Yamanote going to where the action is.
Mar 2, 2008, 6:03 pm
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It is a 1-2,000yen taxi ride from more of the areas you will probably want to be in late at night, and more fine dining options are within a 30-40 minute walk radius.
However, it's best not to take too much notice of my own opinion of the area. I can't help but be enormously prejudiced and my appreciation grows with every visit. Mekayo.
However, it's best not to take too much notice of my own opinion of the area. I can't help but be enormously prejudiced and my appreciation grows with every visit. Mekayo.
Mar 2, 2008, 6:22 pm
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I went there once with my mother, and when we walked into the Imperial lobby, she said that she had a strong sense of having been there before. Of course she had, she had visited there in 1964 for her honeymoon, but stayed at the Okura. I told her she had just carbon-dated herself when she walks into her past in a museum.
Mar 2, 2008, 10:49 pm
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