Keio Presso Inn Ikebukuro — Hotel in Tokyo

Good: great room, good location||||Drawback: boil drinking water yourself||||======================================||Room stayed: Single room (non-smoking, 12m-square, attached bathroom) ||||Room rate: 5180yen (Sunday, early booking rate from japanese website Jalan.net ) with breakfast||||Location: 5-10 mins walking distance from JR Ikebukuro station East Exit (池袋駅東口). Also easily accessible from subway Tokyo Metro. Located aside the main road, easy to find it (note: the building doesn't look like the icon photo displayed by Tripadvisor). A lot of shops and restaurant around the station area. Convenience store and cafe just located at 1st floor.||||Front desk staffs: Always with smile. Not all can converse in English, but there is always at least one on duty.||||Room condition: New and well maintained. Cozy. Looked exactly the same as the displayed photo on their official website. Good lightning.||||Toiletries/amenities: Toothbrush/paste, shampoos, hair dryer, fridge, kettle and air-purifier are provided. In-room slippers are recycled. No safe in the room. Pant-press machines are put beside the lifts. No drinking water provided and you have to boil yourself. Green tea sachets are avalible at front desk. ||||Internet: In room LAN and WIFI.||||Breakfast: Although is simple and limited variety, the buffet style breakfast serves very fresh and tasty breads.||||The overall standard is similar as Tokyu Inn I had stayed so far, except that this hotel branch at Ikebukuro is smaller. The design and atmosphere of the room is better than another hotel branch - Toyoko Inn. At promo price of 5180yen, I get more than what it worth. If the room rate is always at this range, I will definitely give...

Location is only a couple of hundred meters from Ikebukuro Station East Exit, it's a completely straight walk on a busy street. When you come out the station and see Don Quijote across the street you can walk straight up the street on the left-hand side. You can also use the Exit 39 underpass to/from the station if it's raining, you'll come out about halfway to the hotel. There are lots of shops and eateries around and the hotel is right next door to a Family Mart. It's about a 10-15min walk to Sunshine City.||The hotel is clean and well-maintained. We've stayed at another Keio Presso Inn before so we anticipated the compact room. Booked a Standard Double Room and got a corner room by the elevator which just so happens to be slightly more elongated than the other rooms. The bed is firm and small for two adults. The soundproofing is adequate but you can kind of hear shuffling on the other side of the wall to the adjacent room. Since there's only a tiny coat rack available as clothes storage, the room would've benefitted from hooks on the empty walls which there were none of. Breakfast wasn't included so we didn't have it.||Front desk staff was professional but there was some miscommunication. At the other Keio Presso Inn we stayed at the check-out time was 11am so we mistakenly assumed it would be the same here, however, at this location the check-out time's at 10am. Front desk called us as we hadn't checked out on time and we apologized and asked if 11am was okay, they responded, "11 OK" and hung up. We were then charged for the extra hour when we finally checked out, something we would've appreciated to have been notified of...

Stayed for 4 nights during first week of April

Room itself is small as what other mention, however room is very clean. We were given a corner room which have a small walkway to put luggages.

Toilet is similar to cruise cabin toilet, small and compact.

Location is pretty good at least for me. I came from kawaguchiko which there is a direct bus to Ikebukuro station, hence able to walk to hotel checkin within 10 minutes. Same when checking out and heading to airport, there is direct bus from ikebukuro station west to Narita airport. Travelling around Tokyo is also east as there are many lines in ikebukuro station, google map is your friend.

Concierge staff are very friendly just that there are couple of times when we needed something, we have to use google translate. Only during check in, there is a guy that can...