Hotel Abest — Hotel in Tokyo

This hotel is good for what it's designed for, a short stopping place where you return to sleep and well, that's all it needs to be. ||||Location wise, this hotel is fantastic. A two minute walk to the Meguro station which is on the Yamanote circle line that covers most of inner Tokyo. A short walk to Ebisu and a little longer walk to Shibuya. Both excellent areas to discover. This is the main appeal of this hotel. ||||The rest is pretty average. The elevator to the room is separate from the elevator to the ground floor, so every time you want to head out into the streets you'll be swapping between the elevators on level 3. ||||We arrived a little later than planned due to flight delays, and were met by the night crew who didn't seem to have much experience dealing with Westerners and were quite awkward; but pleasant enough. ||||The hotel decor and facilities are very dated and worn. Do not expect a clean, simplistic environment. ||||If you take Japanese customs very seriously, it can be a challenge entering the room as the door swings almost all the way on to the carpet. So you'll need to swap into slippers in the hallway before entering. ||||The room itself is quite small as you would expect from a mid-range Japanese hotel. Should you be planning to do some work in the room, you'll find this a challenge as the chair and desk combination can become uncomfortable very quickly. That aside, the majority of what you'd expect is there. However there was no mini-bar or room service, so late night snacks are a no-go. Though there is a drinks vending machine where you can get a bottle of water, instant coffee, or beer. ||||Sleep wise, the bed is very firm and springy, which as a firm bed lover would normally please me but this was too firm. The pillows were quite odd, felt like they were a combination of rice and other materials and couldn't be flipped as the underside was ribbed. They woke me up numerous times every night and on the last night led to a very bad neck ache in the morning. ||||As mentioned at the start, this hotel is fantastic if you want a short stay at a good location so you can get out and explore, but if you're looking for anything more than that I would...

Wretched hotel that is sapping my will to live. My only hope for survival is to write the snarkiest review possible. I’ve been stuck in this hole for weeks too long. The first day you think you’ll be ok. You’ve got this. On the second day, you feel inexplicably tired and your joie de vivre has vanished somewhere. You think maybe it’s the jet lag, maybe it’s you. But then, as the sun sets on the third day the dark thoughts creep up on your brain like spirit wolves tearing through the snowy slopes of your cold, empty existence. With every puff of smoke that seeps under the walls, with every clunk of cans falling from the vending machine out in the corridor, with every sploog-sludge sound effect of the laundrette echoing along the walls, the wolves howl louder with hunger for your soul and your mind begins to question the life decisions that lead you here to this apathetic, soulless, joyless armpit of a place. You wonder how one hotel can be the decrepit opposite of the vibrant, clean, creative, tasteful metropolis that surrounds it. You think maybe you should leave, but then you remember that it’s free for you, that your company booked you in there, that you’re broke, and you wonder why and who you upset and then you remember it’s just about money and you are some tiny number on a multinational spreadsheet drawn up by millionaire consultants who haven’t stepped right on a plane since they were 23. And here you are, the physical manifestation of rules that some accountant made up to move your molecules 14000km across the world in a way that makes his job as easy as possible, no matter the consequences to the atoms inside you that so desperately try to hold themselves together against the onslaught of this uncaring, bland, apathetic coffin-like room where the only signs of human nature are the scuffs of suitcases against the narrow walls, the ever-growing dust pile under the unforgiving bed and the desperate human smells that even 30 years of industrial Chinese carpet deodoriser can’t quite mask. Breakfast was...

We stayed here for five nights in April 2017.||The hotel is very conveniently located, two minutes walk from the subway station and with lots of restaurants in the area. ||Breakfast was really bad, never refilled and just cold, old and sad. We ended up having breakfast out after the first two nights. ||Room was ok sized but an unnecessary sofa took up all the floor space. Room and bathroom outdated. Bed comfy, towels ok. ||What really upsets me is that my laundry bag with clothes went missing one day. I noticed it in the evening when we got back to the hotel and immediately contacted the staff, as I was sure it had just accidentally been carried out together with the sheets during cleaning. Staff didn't do much, called the cleaning company the next day, who said the didn't have it. We had to ask every day for news of it. The front desk staff "had talked to the manager and there was nothing more they could do", said with a shrug. ||In the end, clothes were never found, we were not offered any compensation or even an apology for this and we left the hotel with a very bitter taste in...