Feb 18, 2019, 10:57 am
Last edit by: bhrubin
As of February 2019 this hotel no longer offers club lounge access to Marriott Platinum and higher guests, even if upgraded to a room category which would otherwise offer lounge access, so lounge access mentioned in older reviews would no longer apply.
The hotel also no longer participates in Suite Night Awards.
Breakfast offering for Platinum and higher is in restaurant, buffet plus made to order eggs.
Expert Review from May 2018 posted to the Luxury Hotels Forum: “Stunning hard product with great concierge and service”
https://www.flyertalk.com/hotel-revi...d-service-2620
The hotel also no longer participates in Suite Night Awards.
Breakfast offering for Platinum and higher is in restaurant, buffet plus made to order eggs.
Expert Review from May 2018 posted to the Luxury Hotels Forum: “Stunning hard product with great concierge and service”
https://www.flyertalk.com/hotel-revi...d-service-2620
The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho, Japan, LC [Master Thread]
Jul 24, 2019, 5:16 pm
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I have eaten in restaurants somewhere in the world thousands of times, I too can see myself one day getting tired of eating in restaurants and probably do a staycation forever in a coffin inside a graveyard.
Jul 24, 2019, 5:33 pm
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Examples of staycation in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The celebration begins July 13 with a gala at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel for the 28 families who will be getting a weekend staycation and all kinds of goodies, thanks to 16 hotels and 16 restaurants. — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio nonprofit lifts sick children’s spirits with Christmas in July," 6 July 2019 The IHG Rewards Club Premier is a great card for a staycation because of one benefit alone—the free night certificate, which can easily cover the $89 annual fee of the card. — Caroline Lupini, USA TODAY, "The best travel credit cards of 2019," 5 June 2019
Recent Examples on the Web
The celebration begins July 13 with a gala at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk Hotel for the 28 families who will be getting a weekend staycation and all kinds of goodies, thanks to 16 hotels and 16 restaurants. — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio nonprofit lifts sick children’s spirits with Christmas in July," 6 July 2019 The IHG Rewards Club Premier is a great card for a staycation because of one benefit alone—the free night certificate, which can easily cover the $89 annual fee of the card. — Caroline Lupini, USA TODAY, "The best travel credit cards of 2019," 5 June 2019
Jul 27, 2019, 4:42 am
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A staycation to me is when you treat yourself to a vacation in your home city. e.g. if I live in Tokyo but choose to treat myself to a stay at the Prince Gallery for the weekend.
Jul 27, 2019, 4:18 pm
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Hyatt's loyalty program used to be so condusive to Tokyo staycations, with only 25 stays required and awesome Diamond benefits. But since that's long gone, I've concentrated on Prince's SEIBU PRINCE CLUB. Platinum status is nowhere near as good as Hyatt, but I can maintain it with less than 500000 yen of annual spend, including restaurant visits on non-stays. And I can gift Platinum status up to five times a year, so it makes for a nice mid-summer gift.
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Jul 29, 2019, 8:34 am
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Can anyone comment on this neighborhood compared to the Ritz neighborhood? Obviously Rappongi is the fairly ritzy, expat hood. Does the neighborhood around PG have a more local, tokyo feel, or is it just completely dead?
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Jul 29, 2019, 8:39 am
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Not dead by any means! Lots of activity, lots of residential and commercial buildings with restaurants and shops in the vicinity, like so many places in Tokyo. Hence the convergence of so many subway lines.
Aug 13, 2019, 11:35 am
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I preferred the area around the PG over the Ritz for food and ambiance. The area around the Ritz is good if you're planning of doing high end shopping.
Aug 13, 2019, 1:29 pm
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Immediately around the hotel is dead. There's a moderately lively commercial district behind the Akasaka-Mitsuke metro station, with lots of restaurants and bars and a walking street. It's packed on Friday night. You can also walk to the Imperial Palace.
Aug 13, 2019, 3:05 pm
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Both neighbourhoods are really good. In addition to the PG hotel restaurants (which are very pricy), the PG has ~3 floors of restaurants in the basement. There are streets of restaurants near the subway. Easy for a first time visitor to Tokyo. Even more fun when you know the area.
The (RC) Roppongi area also has many great restaurants. I enjoyed a fabulous 8-9 course menu in the shopping mall last time. I had the best steak of my life at a small local restaurant in Roppongi.
I used to stay at the PG, but will be staying at the RC from now on.
The (RC) Roppongi area also has many great restaurants. I enjoyed a fabulous 8-9 course menu in the shopping mall last time. I had the best steak of my life at a small local restaurant in Roppongi.
I used to stay at the PG, but will be staying at the RC from now on.
Aug 15, 2019, 8:21 am
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Not a great review, is this hotel going downhill? https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/pri...ry-collection/
Aug 15, 2019, 8:55 am
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Not a great review, is this hotel going downhill? https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/pri...ry-collection/
Aug 15, 2019, 9:51 am
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Not a great review, is this hotel going downhill? https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/pri...ry-collection/
It isn’t nearly as bad as when you see what they had to say about the wildly overrated Park Hyatt Tokyo:
https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/park-hyatt-tokyo/
Aug 15, 2019, 9:57 am
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It’s a bit of a schizophrenic report that minimizes the excellent hard product and otherwise amazing service and F&B while spending a lot of time focused on a bad breakfast experience. It does sound like a bad breakfast experience, and many others have reported challenges at breakfast.
It isn’t nearly as bad as when you see what they had to say about the wildly overrated Park Hyatt Tokyo:
https://thepointsguy.com/reviews/park-hyatt-tokyo/
Aug 15, 2019, 10:09 am
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Because the PH isn’t as impressive as the PG as it turns out. It isn’t even close to us.
I’m glad you enjoyed both. But we found the PH largely living on borrowed time and glory. The hard product was very dated. The furnishings were cheap and often banged up. The location is less desirable even than that of the oft-complained about PG location. The PH concierge wasn’t nearly as capable as that of the PG.
The PG hard product to us was overwhelmingly better than any other Tokyo hotel besides the Aman. It wasn’t even close. The concierge at the PG blows away the concierge at almost every other 5* hotel in Tokyo—getting us into many top restaurants that the other concierges couldn’t even book (that includes the Aman, the MO, the Pen, and the PH). The overall service was vastly better for us at the PG than almost anywhere else, though the service was just as good at the MO and the Aman. The PH service was much more formulaic and less friendly, though there was overall better English speaking staff at the PH than the PG. That language issue actually was a big reason for us having a n issue with breakfast at the PG, but the overall breakfast was just as delicious to us as that at the PH. And the Club lounge breakfast at the PG avoided all of the restaurant breakfasts language issues and was just as good again.
We’d gladly return to the PG. We wouldn’t bother again with the PH.
Aug 15, 2019, 10:09 am
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Yeah the breakfast experience is an ongoing issue since launch in this thread and other blog reviews. It's a shame it is like this and nothing is improving.
I think it's better to simply stay here and grab a sandwich at 7-11 and skip the breakfast completely, unless you are getting breakfast here for free of course. Free breakfast is stupid to say no to.
Do not pay for breakfast here as you will be disappointed and receive a 2-3 star is experience. Apart from breakfast and the restaurants everything else is 5 star excellent.
I think it's better to simply stay here and grab a sandwich at 7-11 and skip the breakfast completely, unless you are getting breakfast here for free of course. Free breakfast is stupid to say no to.
Do not pay for breakfast here as you will be disappointed and receive a 2-3 star is experience. Apart from breakfast and the restaurants everything else is 5 star excellent.