Hotel Kiraku Yamaguchi Yudaonsen — Hotel in Yamaguchi

The first time I stayed here was on a business trip a couple of years ago. The room was very old, dirty and smelly as it used to be a smoking room. I vowed never to stay there again. Fast forward to this week. Another business trip stay and I reluctantly agreed to stay there as everywhere else was fully booked. I was assured I had a Non-Smoking room. It was not. It was a disgustingly yellow, musty and grimy *hole of a room!||Just stepping out of the elevator, you are greeted with an absolutely disgusting stench from the hallway carpet that has gone from a light blue to a dark murky looking grey, I assume from never being cleaned/shampooed. ||The room upon entering was no better and I almost threw up, no kidding!||The toilet/bathroom has a strip of paper with the word 'Sanitised' on it, on the toilet seat lid. The toilet itself had dark grey stripes inside the bowl. The shower curtain was speckled with mold and the light fixture had dust and lord knows what hanging off it!||||In the bedroom, the air vent was full of years worth of dust, and it showed on the ceiling with the stripes of grime blasted on the paper. ||The bedroom carpet was marginally better than the hallway one, but smelled almost as bad.||Walls were covered in dirt and dust, with some areas showing peeling paper. ||The bed covers had HOLES in them!! I dared not sleep inside the bed itself and used the bath towel to lay down on. ||Upon returning late at night to my home the next day, my wife commented how she could still smell the place on my suit, which I have opted to trash rather than clean, and other clothing items are now soaking overnight to kill off any potential bugs. ||||This hotel used to be a lovely place many many years ago, but it seems neither management nor owners, give a crap about the upkeep of the place. Old fixtures, dirty everything and a stench so bad you wouldn't want your worst enemy to stay there!||||The one saving grace is the breakfast menu was fresh and plentiful. ||||If I could rate this place any lower, I would. I do NOT RECOMMEND staying here - EVER!||||Advice to management/owners: CLEAN YOUR HOTEL, UPGRADE EVERYTHING, Trash or BURN every single piece of bed linen, curtains, shower curtains and mattresses as well as that DISGUSTING EXCUSE OF A CARPET! ||Spend some MONEY ON YOUR BUSINESS! ||If it was up to me, you'd be SHUT DOWN as a HEALTH HAZARD! My wife and I (Japanese) will be finding out what we can do to report your overpriced *HOLE and have you do something about it!||||The pictures I have provided do not show half the story - I have video too and will be...

I have stayed here several times due to business, and each time, the rooms were old and dirty. The last stay was the worst! A smoking room was given, even though I had booked a non-smoking room! The smell was foul. In the hallway the carpet was extremely old, worn and smelled so bad I almost threw-up! Bed covers were tatty and given the cobwebs on the walls, as well as the dust in the vent of the non-controllable air-conditioning system, I opted to place several towels on top of the bed and sleep that way. The mattress was so old it was like a badly dug garden. Lumpy. The breakfast is the only decent thing about this old and worn out excuse for a hotel. I will never stay there again even if it is the only hotel available in the area. I'd rather sleep in my car than have to...

2022年1月記載。 一泊二日で最も安価なシングルルーム利用。 温泉地のホテルですが、14㎡の室内は関西関東圏のビジネスホテルと同じ作りでリゾート感は特に感じられません。

ホテルの周囲には美味しい料理を提供する飲食店が歩いてぶつかるほど多いので立地は良いです。

エレベーターが一機なのは今回のように宿泊利用者が多いときには不便を感じます。

部屋のドアはキーを差して回転して押し開くタイプ、ドアは重いので荷物を両手に抱えていると開けるのは難しいかも。 廊下の左右で鍵の回転方向が異なる？確認して下さい。 同行の若い女史は初めて見るドアに相当苦戦していて、挙句ドアに鍵を残してぶら下げたままで入室していました、危ねえわw

室内は暗め。 室内メイン灯以外はベッド上の小さめの灯り(明暗調節あり)、入り口付近の照明はセンサー式のようで時間が経つと消灯してさらに暗く感じます。 いわゆる「ホテル向けバスルーム」と呼ばれるバス、洗面、トイレがセットのユニットバス。 今回は睡魔が激しくシャワーのみ使用。シャワーポジションが高過ぎて打たせ湯、滝行状態。 シャンコンボディソは備えつけ、ポンプ式のハンドソープが置いてあるのはこのご時世では嬉しい配慮です。 ユニットバス入り口の段差が高く、子どもや年配の方は注意が必要です。 ワタシのシューズサイズは28cmですが、それよりも高い段差です。

ちなみに売りの温泉についてですが、温泉浴場を利用した女史曰く「『大？』浴場ではなかったですねw」とのこと。 タオルはどうやら自室から持ち込みのようです(利用していないので曖昧ですが)。

シャープの空気清浄機は機能十分ですが、ツインバードの冷蔵庫は冷凍室がありませんでした。 今回は冷蔵庫は使用していませんが、夏場は冷凍スペースの需要はあると思います。 ドライヤーは1,200w。。。惜しい、髪の長い女史は「1,400w以上があると嬉しい」と言うので、フロント貸し出し用に準備があると良いのではないでしょうか？

室内でお湯は沸かせますが、日本茶のティーバッグ一つあるのみ。持参していたドリップコーヒー活躍。

PCを持ち込んだのでテレビは利用していませんがYouTube、VOD視聴できるとのこと。

机の引き出しには中原中也の詩集がっ！ このホテルで最も評価できるポイントがコレでした(個人の趣。。。感想です)。

ベッドは腰痛持ちのワタシも快眠できたので高評価、寝具はロング丈の浴衣。 ワタシは裾扱いが苦手なので使用しませんでしたが、女史は珍しいらしく嬉しそうに着ていました。萌えポイントです。

朝食はバイキング形式。 食事の混雑や密集を避けるために時間帯をあらかじめ予約して分割しているようです。 メニューは和洋どちらでも。 暖かくなくて残念な品もありましたが、種類も量も申し分ありませんし、味についても不満はありません。 グルメではないワタシですが、バイキングは男の子回路が発動してわくわくします...