Maidreamin Akihabara Sotokanda 1-Chome Store — Restaurant in Tokyo

Waste of money and time. Came early afternoon just to try out a maid cafe. As I was walking towards this cafe, a girl on the street promoting maidreamin came up to us and handed out fliers. I told her I wanted to go, and she lead me to a "secret shop", as she said it would be a better experience. I go up there and the place was pretty small. We were seated and they give us a menu with packages. Everything on the package was almost 2500 yen or more. I came with my husband and we decided to order 1 dessert package with a drink and picture souvenir. Then they asked my husband what he wanted to order. Reluctant to order another package, I remembered that the flyer the girl gave me had some drinks on there, without having to order a package. So i took my flyer and we just ordered a 5000 yen juice. I think it's very tricky of them to give us a more expensive menu, rather than a full menu. Anyway, after taxes and fees, our whole bill came out to almost 4500 yen. I felt like I spent way too much money on this. We stayed for maybe 50 minutes cuz we were in a rush to go somewhere else. While we were there, we only saw 2 or 3 maids. Mostly only 1 was working on the floor. The other 2 were running in and out trying to hand out fliers or something. We had awkward conversations in english with the maid. She was nice enough. Dessert and drinks were alright. After we paid, they try to force you to give them a 5 star rating on google. They watch you give the review so I just pressed 5 stars just to get out of there. I just edited it with my real rating. Overall, I dont recommend this place. I'd rather have gone to the owl cafe twice than this scam. This is not a review on our maid, as she was nice, but the whole...

It was an alright maid cafe. Maids were just ok. Service wasn’t great. They were friendly when they were trying to sell you stuff. They didn’t give us the a la carte menu and kept pushing for the more expensive set menu until we insisted on it by pointing at their flyer printed with single items on it which we got on the street. After we finished the ice cream, they gave us bills, instead of an obviously frequent customer who also finished everything and was obviously half drunk, as soon as there were more customers showed up at the door. While we were paying for the bill, I asked for breaking a 5000 yen bill on the side, and they said no. We are not some random people who walked in and asked to break a large bill. We are their customers! I don’t understand why they weren’t willing to break a 5000yen bill for their customer! That and other small incidents made me feel that they are just polite on the surface to make money, but they don’t actually care about their customers (maybe except for the frequent otaku customers who were obsessed with them). Just to add more disappointment, the so called “performance” was hardly a performance. The dance was kinda ridiculous with not much artistic and kawaii aspect in it. Being Asian myself, I totally understand kawaiiness, and this was not even close. I almost bursted into laughters when I was watching it. You can probably find more kawaii and better looking maids with better performances somewhere else. The only upside: the ice creams were delicious, and they were made into really kawaii...

This place is a tourist trap but for once I'm going to say that's not a bad thing.

Yes, you pay an entrance fee PER person. You are getting the stereotypical moe maid hostess that you can expect with a bubbly sweet personality.

If you get one of the sets you will get okay food or great tasting desserts and a gift. If you want to save some money don't get the performance or decline when they say a 'gift' from the box which is actually an upcharge on your bill of around ~$6 USD PER person.

What you're paying for is the experience of going to a Japanese maid cafe. If you want it on the cheap then find the few left that doesn't tack on fees but then expect to be treated like you're eating at a standard cafe.

We had a fun experience for the hour that we were there. We got a good dessert and a cute photo with a maid. Don't expect try to talk to them in English as they're going to only know a few words on what they're trained on. They do have English menus so you can point and order.

The reviews who complain that is a rip off don't seem to understand what they're walking to or fully research what a maid cafe is in Akihabara. It's a tourist spot doing the tourist trap cafe and you'll either love it or not.

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