Kuretake Inn Okayama — Hotel in Okayama

I'd not only old is very dirty also, the walls are very dirty and yellow they need to be repainted and the carpet is awful you don't even want to use the slipper as they plastic made. The bed cover are awful too the bathroom door is full of dirt around the lock. We try to contact them several times by mail or message by Trip to receive our luggage by ta-q-bin and change and for a non smokers room but they've never reply. I took a scale from reception and I have to clean it before use it as has got a spider underneath and after all the dirt we have to clean when we went for the breakfast they made us to wear plastic gloves obligatory for serving our food, is a complete nonsense that the dirtiest hotel I've been and they've made me wear gloves!!! Really ???They have free beer and drinks I think trying to compensate so bad service and installations. The receptionist very impolite and the woman at the buffet treating us very unrespectfully. Is the first time I've been in a place like this in Japan. It was a disgusting experience and if all the hotels that we are booking with trip are going to be like this one we are not going to use...

The hotel is very easy to find. It's a ten minute walk from the station or a two minute bus ride (bus 5 from stop 4, cost Y100). You can see the ten story building from a distance. The room I stayed in had a fully appointed bathroom and a cupboard inside the door which contained a microwave over AND a washing machine. Pity there was no storage space for luggage, but you can't have everything. There is also an excellent view from the balcony. The breakfast is part of the bill and is a huge buffet of Western and Japanese dishes. You can have endless fun colour co-ordinating your meal. Staff were also friendly and efficient. I had trouble finding restaurants with English speaking staff, but I went away from the tourist areas. Okayama is also a good base for travelling, as it connects to Shikoku and a train journey to Kochi is under three hours. Plus, Hiroshima is 35 minutes away on the Shinkansen and staying here will save what you would pay for a Japan Rail Pass. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to see the region...

Booked as part of a package trip through air france, so did not have chance to choose room. Japanese Hotel rooms are generally quite small and cramped and if you have a double bed it will mean one of you sleeps next to the wall and has to shuffle out of the bed if you need to use the bathroom in the night.... if you are also 70 years old you will need to do this multiple times per night !! Get a twin bedded room. The location is good and the breakfast is excellent, overall this is a good value hotel even if the bathrooms are tiny by western standards. Please visit Okayama, it is a lovely city with fabulous castle and glorious gardens along with plenty of great places to eat. Much better value than the normal popular tourist hot...