Ryogoku River Hotel

設備が古い

敢えて言うなら浴槽が狭い　でもそれほど困ったわけではないです

Breakfast was poor.

Little old

I think they lack people serving breakfast. They ran out of juice at that time and bread also. They were not able to replenish until I finished breakfast.

Nothing here was a deal breaker, but there were a few inconveniences that I found on my stay.

Sadly it has no English namesign on the front or if it has is small and hard to spot when approaching it from the station, making it a bit confusing as another similar named hotel is just across the street. And It is literally across the street, has the same color scheme and I am quite sure that it belongs to the same company, but is a more luxury hotel compared to this one. I honestly think that having the hotel name in English would be helpful.

Not sure if it was just me, but I found the room very, very dry, as waking up in the middle of the night with my mouth horribly dry and with no saliva whatsoever, needing to drink something to be able to even try and go back to sleep. Maybe it was the heating, I also wasn't able to adjust the temperature of the room that I found way too warm for my liking so I left the heating/AC off, which kept the temperature more agreeable for me, yet the air was still very dry.

The bathroom was very cramped, I was expecting it to be small given the business hotel standards, but it felt even smaller than the one that I stayed before, the toilet paper dispenser was lodged against my leg when I used the toilet sitting down and I had to sit in an awkward angle to use it, not a great experience there.

The ceiling was also fairly low in the bathroom, I had very little room above my head to wash my hair and head, also very little room in the bathing area to move around inside it. Again not the best but serviceable enough. Admittedly I am tall and that affects things, but I feel that even a more Japanese average height person would feel that it is a bit cramped.

The breakfast was the same both days that I had it and I don't know if it was because of the time of the year of my stay or it is always the same.

One of the neighbours was being loud

Non-smoking room smelled like cigarettes. Bathroom was below what the rating of the hotel suggested. TV programming is non-existent, in this age of technology, in Japan. Everything was old and outdated. Beds were uncomfortable. Breakfast offerings were very limited compared to all other hotel breakfasts we had in Japan.

The room was fine; nothing abnormal there. BUT, the lobby had a terrible, smoky smell (like a burnt BBQ smell) stained into its floor and walls. I had to hold my breath when passing through. You can tell that the hotel is pretty old, but that is what you get for the cheap price.