KYOTO TOKYU HOTEL

have suttle buses from the kyoto station to the hotel. and I have to say the shuttle bus driver is so welcoming and cheerful. also convenient to go to sightseeing places by bus( around 5min walk) but no convenient stores nearby. the closest one will be about 10min walk

Breakfast buffet provides plenty of choices and they taste good.  The guest room is big enough to accommodate three of us!

A very pleasent place to stay. Rooms spacious, clean and quite. Great breakfast with many options, they also have gluten free, but you need to make sure to tell them while you prenote for the hotel, so they'll know. Staff perfect.

Location is far from the town center as well as the tourist sight seeing spots. Found hair stuck in the bath tub and on the bathroom floor. There is literally no air conditioning in the room and its extremely frustrating especially the temperature reached almost 36c in the day time. That really let us down. Otherwise, the facilities are good and friendly staff.

Decent hotel with superb services, including free shuttle buss from Kyoto station. Great continental breakfast !

had a pleasant stay at kyoto tokyu hotel! the room was clean, spacious and the staff are so friendly and sweet ~ they have a shuttle bus that goes to Kyoto station every hour which is so useful! the shuttle bus stops just right outside the hotel :) will definitely come back again !!

Quite good hotel, everything is excellent but a little bit far from sight seeings

It is not convenient to find no lift from the G/F to the checking in lobby at UG. But, it got nice view around the premises.

Friendly staff Pleasant interior Good in-room amenities (except bedding) Useful hotel shuttle Cons: 1. Major language barriers every step of the way, even concierge and reception. Virtually NO English is spoken by staff, including "Upper Management". Special shout out to Mr. Yamamoto who needed a (female and far more acute) translator to understand our concerns. Wouldn't English be the FIRST pre-requisite to run an international hotel? Having been to over 40 countries, I can't think of one hotel example where the bar is so low. Meritocracy? Not here. 2. Horrendous bedding. Prison-grade extra firm mattresses + absurdly flat and useless pillows. Noting could be done about the mattresses (which created pressure points almost instantly), but pillows! We requested softer/cushier pillows thrice! We were told the hotel ran out of because it's a high season?! I couldn't believe my ears. 3. The Gym is located in a separate building and is hard to find. I had the misfortune of "asking for directions" from one of their staff. Again no English but the lady pointed me in gym's direction and managed to eek out "need key". I nodded, fully confident she meant my room key. What other key could she possibly mean? I learned soon enough after my room key wouldn't let me in. Back at the Reception I was informed that I need to fill a PAPER FORM and receive a gym key, which incidentally looked like an oversized conference badge and wouldn't fit in a pocket. That form, aside from being a bureaucratic time-waster, asked me to certify that I didn't drink any alcohol before gym use. I told the front desk to print 100 copies of their form, make a roll and sit on it. 4. Hotel restaurants serve extremely mediocre food at roughly x3 price of local restaurants. Worse still, their room service ends at 10PM. My family happened to be checking in at 11PM so no food. Bad as this is, no one bothered to create a list of late dining options. Staff is not trained not only in English, but in ANY manner of problem solving. If it weren't for another guest who happened to be walking by and suggested that we try UberEats, all 4 of us would have gone to bed starving. 5. Low quality breakfast, which serves the cheapest ingredients. I've seen better fare for sale at gas stations. Their kitchen has a flat stove intended for making omelets and fresh breakfast. However, we were informed it hasn't yet reopened due to COVID. What? You ****** are still using COVID as an excuse for your laziness? Pathetic. 6. Literally fed up with hotel food, we decided to book a table at a local restaurant. Zero recommendations from their concierge. We were asked to inform the front desk of our choice and "they would be happy to make a reservation for us". That's hot how concierge works, but were getting quite exasperated by that point so we went upstairs and did our own Google search!!! When we called the front desk, we were told we'd have to come dow to complete another PAPER FORM where among other things, we'd have to agree to a $100 room charge in case of a no show. Turns out restaurants don't require a deposit. This is done to "protect hotel's reputation"!!!! This property is so concerned about its reputation with local restaurants that it's completely oblivious about losing face with its guests? This is just bewildering.