Here is my review on the Conrad Tokyo located in the business district of Shiodome. It is also within 5-10 minutes of Shimbashi, which is a central station that gives you access to the Ginza, Ueno, and Yamanote lines.
Location
Shiodome is a business district. There are lots of office building tall and small, with various sized companies and employees therein. Everyday there was rush to the locally connected mall for the Restaurants to eat lunch. I personally visited a place called Bubby’s American cookery
okay, sure you are
And an Indian place called Baazigar. The American place had good burgers, though they lacked the ambrosia we like to call Barbecue sauce. And the Indian place had really good curry, for a fantastic price! Although there wasn’t that many places near to eat, the options near by were very good. I suppose what makes this location pretty nice is how fast you can get on the train. I mean from my room on the 34th floor to being on a train headed to Ginza, might take 10 minutes?
The Room
I got great news on the room front! It’s actually pretty nice.
The room is very spacious for being so near businesses, and being located in Tokyo, and although the furniture has seen better days- it was high quality stuff. The good news doesn’t just stop there. The bed was very comfortable- it wasn’t as great as my bed back home, but what is really? It was very serviceable though! Okay so what’s the neg?
The toilet at the Grand Hyatt was better
For some reason, although the bathroom and shower were fine they cheaped out on the toilet. Not only did the porcelain throne not heat your bum after doing the do, but you needed a degree in hydrodynamics with a minor in hydraulics to even flush the thing. I kid you not, we didn’t flush it on the first night because I couldn’t figure out how. Some sort of not-knob that you had to translate down without turning, sliding, or twisting.
The Gym
I don’t know. Okay? Well it looked nice. And it seemed like the pool was heated. Oh and they had a yoga instructor you could hire from the hotel to do yoga in there. It was like Equinox-mini, albeit a little underwhelming coming from the Grand Hyatt..grand gym.
Breakfast
As a diamond member you actually have 2 choices of where to get breakfast. Although they are both buffets, you can eat at the Hotel restaurant Cerise, or at the executive lounge.
Which to pick?
| Cerise | Executive Lounge | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| O | X | Food Choice |
| X | O | Service |
| O | O | Views |
I ate at both establishments, and in my eye the lounge was superior. Though that’s because I value service above the food choice. I am okay with 4 or 5 few options if they treat me like an expert whom just fell from Heaven to Earth. It was bizarre though how different the service was. I was legit ignored waiting for someone to come take my order for what felt like forever, but was in actuality 15-20 minutes. It was so bad I brought it up to the hotel manager. Turns out they hear that a lot. Why don’t they fix it then?
To get to the meat and potatoes though, breakfast was fine. I enjoyed the views and the service and the Matcha Lattes, cereal, and ham were enough to keep me coming back every morning. I wouldn’t put a ring on it or anything, but if I was looking for something to hold me till lunch, well it’ll do.
Overall Score
With all that being said you must be wondering what I thought of this fine hotel. It was just that, fine. I would in fact stay here again, and despite some of the dubious treatment from the restaurant staff, and suspect employees inviting themselves to our room a few times, it was a nice memorable stay.
4/5
