Location. The Imperial Hotel is adjacent to Hibiya Park and the Nissay and Takarazuka ... more
Theatres in downtown Tokyo, Japan. Ginza's shopping district, the Sony building and the Tokyo International Forum are within 700 meters of the hotel. The 1890 Imperi...
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Location. The Imperial Hotel is adjacent to Hibiya Park and the Nissay and Takarazuka ... more
Theatres in downtown Tokyo, Japan. Ginza's shopping district, the Sony building and the Tokyo International Forum are within 700 meters of the hotel. The 1890 Imperi...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: The whole experience. Disadvantages: My stay was completely disadvantage free!
Regular readers of my reviews will no doubt already know I am a huge fan of Blackpool and that I travel there on a regular basis. Now I am the first to admit that when I visit Blackpool it is more about the place itself than the accommodation and therefore I usually just opt for a very inexpensive B&B but I do on occasions like to treat myself to a luxury break in a hotel and have stayed in the Big Blue hotel that overlooks the Pleasure beach (already reviewed) and also in the ImperialHotel which is what I am going to tell you a bit about here.
I stayed in the Imperial in late 2004 so I do apologise if there have been changes that I fail to mention in this review but I am assured after talking to friends who I recommended the hotel to and are recently back from their stay that it is every bit as good now as I told them it was then ...
Advantages: Clean, modern, excellent location Disadvantages: Small rooms and not cheap, but not many places in the area are cheap!
I'm lucky to have never stayed in a bad hotel in Tokyo. For this trip I decided I wanted to stay near Shinjuku, so previous hotels were out of the question and my budget is getting smaller all the time. Through a combination of reviews on Tripadvisor, rating on hotels.com and a good listing of hotel rates from lowest to highest there emerged a clear winner, the Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku!
Getting there
We arrived in Tokyo on the Shinkansen train from Kyoto, switched train lines at Tokyo station and emerged at Shinjuku (one of the major stations in the city). The journey from Tokyo station was easy, it's not hard to get to Shinjuku really as it's such a major station.
If you're arriving at Narita you have a couple of options to get to the hotel, you can take the Narita Express train or there is also a bus which stops right ...
Advantages: Nice location, reasonable prices Disadvantages: Small rooms
I have been making regular trips to High Wycombe, and have struggled to find accommodation which is nice and reasonably priced. This is a fairly expensive part of the world, and the Travel Inns in the area are booked up 3-4 weeks in advance.
After identifying the site: http://www.4hotels.co.uk - Worth a visit if you are struggling for somewhere to stay when travelling, the site lists an excellent range of primarily B&B's, but also hotels throughout the UK. From here I discovered The ImperialHotel, Henley-on-Thames, which I was advised was a very upmarket and expensive town. The hotel is described as
".....this imposing, classical Edwardian building is situated in the Thames Valley in Royal Henley on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, which is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty....".
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Three single rooms ...
