hotel androoms Nagoya Sakae

It was clean, quiet. Public bath and sauna at 12th floor were a good point.

According to me, very expensive during the week-end, too expensive actually. Not even a bootle a water in the room. A bit deceived by location : it's Sakae, but in a very quiet neighbourhood, not far from bars and restaurants but still a 5-7 mn walk.

Lovely new hotel. Provide umbrellas to use when it's raining. The larger corner rooms with kingsize beds and extra-fancy toilets and bathrooms are fabulous.

There is a problem with the aircon in the double/superior rooms. I arrived at 6pm. The room was cute, spotless, small, BUT incredibly hot. Aircon blowing air, but warm air, not cool air, even though the temp was set to 20 degrees C (the minimum possible, can't go lower than that). Lovely and cool in the corridor outside the room, ridiculously warm inside the room. The two young people at reception showed me 2 alternative rooms (both directly below the original one) and each was worse than the previous. There was nothing else they could or would do. I asked to speak to the manager: he had gone home (it was by then 9.30pm). Asked to speak to maintenance: they had gone home. It took 4 hours (wtf?) of me waiting in a hot room or reception, while they hoped the aircon would miraculously rectify itself - it didn't. Eventually at 10pm I went back to the original room which had cooled slightly with the aircon blowing for 4 hours solidly and no occupant. I had a miserable, hot, sweaty night there. The next morning, I came down and asked for the manager again. He was there, and he was very helpful. I said I needed to move to a bigger room (the rooms are very small) as maybe the bigger room would feel cooler, and my husband (who is difficult) was arriving that day. I said I'd pay any difference (even though it was already the most expensive hotel on my trip), just get me into a room with an aircon that works! The manager was great - upgraded me to a bigger room next door to the original room, no additional charge, and in the bigger room, the aircon worked brilliantly, lovely and cool :) The rest of the stay there was excellent! The larger corner rooms are fabulous. Standard/superior double rooms are very compact (no cupboards, hang your clothes on hangers on hooks on the wall)and the aircon is woefully inadequate, especially on a hot, humid day with a typhoon about to make landfall.

The hotel has great lighting in the rooms and the onsen was a nice touch. The bed was comfy and the room was quiet. Overall a nice stay!

I thought there might be bottled water and a choice of beverages (only green tea was supplied). But this is only a minor point.