Introduction We stayed here at the beginning of April 2017 for 3 nights. I had a friend use a Guest of Honor for my stay for 20K Hyatt points per night. I believe rates were around $500 per night at the time. Location The hotel is in the Gungnam business district, so not the […]
Introduction We stayed here in April 2017 for 2 nights during cherry blossom season. The consensus place to stay is the Intercontinental Osaka, but they were fully booked, so I booked this St. Regis using 20K SPG points per night. Rack rate was around $800 due to the season, so it was a great use […]
Introduction This was my FIRST ever Ritz Carlton experience. The hotel was fully booked due to cherry blossom season, but I was able to snag 2 nights for 70,000 Marriott points per night. Rack rate was over $1,000 USD per night, so a really great value. Getting to hotel We were moving from the Hyatt, […]
Introduction We were in Kyoto in early April for the cherry blossom season. I had heard this hotel was one of the better ones in Kyoto. You can read the issues I had trying to find award nights for early April on this post. I used 20K points for the stay and the hotel was […]
Introduction I was staying here for 3 nights as a Guest of Honor, meaning I was enjoying the Hyatt Diamond aka Globalist benefits, back in late March 2017. It cost me 25,000 points a night when I stayed. Getting here from airport Once again, we took the limousine bus aka just a normal bus from […]