hey guys i'm in the osaka staying at an
up-bow hotel it's pretty popular chain
here in japan and i can actually access
everybody's room from this balcony
rookies gear yeah that's a thing
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I've stayed here for the last three days
and before I give my thoughts on the
room and the experience and whether it's
worth it and all that let's go back to
day one so I can give you a peek at the
room itself all right first we give the
room let's take a look around she goes
in here and oh this is gonna be a real
quick room tour look at this it's like
the tiniest room ever and the tv turns
on when you have me in tonight guess
this is terrible 450 bucks a night I've
stayed in worse places okay let's see if
we can't box off a tour in I don't know
30 seconds yeah this guy hanging out
right by the entrance got a little
fridge which is off right now and empty
slippers down there hello mirror we'll
check the bathroom in a second and this
is pretty much the entire room right
here my biggest concern is like if I'm
even gonna fit on that bed or not I
guess we'll find out got a little
workspace here this purity goes back
enough with of course the standard
yukata that comes in most Japanese
hotels and it's got a little paper crane
hai-yah light control right here room
bracket boom there we go I have noticed
that some of the wallpaper around the
edges here is peeling but if that's the
worst problem you have in a hotel you're
still having a pretty good day check out
the washroom fairly standard unit bath
style washroom they're all just kind of
built-in you shower and bathe right
there
also in case you didn't know a lot of
Japanese hotels or even businesses just
like to fold their toilet paper in a
neat little triangle to welcome you I
gotta say I'm actually impressed with
the amenities here I stayed at the
Intercontinental in Times Square while
back and while the really good rooms had
great amenities the cheap rooms which
were still fairly expensive had like
nothing so that's that's not bad for
again $50 room I think that's I think
that's all tour check the view
oh there we go
have a balcony but on the downside
everybody has this balcony I can
literally access any of the other rooms
just by going down there which means
they can I'm gonna keep this window
locked and the curtains closed better so
I guess this is my home base of
operations for the next three nights I
guess I'll check back in in like three
days
cool close that window there we go so
over the last year I have stayed in a
whole bunch of different hotels I've
sated nice hotels which are right by
gorgeous beaches tiny little hotels up
in Hokkaido but coming down to Osaka I
realized I had never booked any of their
like chain hotels I can up a hotel for
those of you familiar with Japanese
business hotels they're very much like
this they're very plain and simple Appa
Hotel really kind of falls into that
category they're like a no-frills
super basic hotel you've seen it for the
most part the room is fairly clean I had
no problems with that amenities were
great you can pay like an extra like 13
bucks for breakfast but there's a
convenience store right around the
corner hello Japanese convenience stores
my biggest issue more than anything came
in when it came to the security of the
room we're not going to talk about the
balcony access to all the rooms I think
you're gonna find that in a lot of
different hotels the other day when I
left the room I left the key right there
in the slide you're supposed to take it
with you obviously and when I came back
and I need to get a new key I took them
to the front desk and they're like you
can do so for a thousand yen if you find
the other key you will return your
thousand yeah but at that time all they
asked me was my room number I gave them
my room number got out my ID expecting
them to don't want to check my ID it and
they're like oh so you're norm and I'm
like yes I am and they're like okay
here's your new card and while the
argument probably can't be made that I'm
not Japanese and there's probably not
that many norms staying in this hotel
that still seems like a few Jepson
security also this pillow
I don't even even know what this is this
is this is by far the single least
comfortable pillow that I have ever used
in my life like that my blanket was
thicker than this pit that was just a
terrible pillow just up a hotel if you
ever ended up watching this do something
about those pillows that that was
garbage it's also really common in rooms
like this to not have that many plugs to
plug things in I think there's a three
in this room a little bit of a hack that
I love to share in hotel related videos
is there's almost always USB plugs
behind the TV I've actually I've got my
Wi-Fi my GoPro charging right now and I
almost forgot to mention they do have a
free public bath that any guests in the
hotel can use and they've got a whole
bunch of other small amenities
that's for my personal verdict on the
hotel it's not terrible I've stayed in
worse places but again I've stayed in
better places for cheaper fact there was
a nice little air B&B around the corner
from here for like ten dollars less per
night maybe next time I'll check that
out I've yet to stay at an air B&B in
Japan and had a bit of a regulation
issue there being bees for a while so it
became kind of a risky thing to book
though seems like a lot of that has been
sorted out the caution remains and these
upper hotels are everywhere by the way
like everywhere you will find these
they're there all over the place but as
I said there's such a great variety of
places to stay in Japan so in the end
the decision is up to you but now you
know what an Apple hotel is like at the
very end of this video I'm going to link
a playlist of short videos just like
this designed to give value to your trip
in Japan I think there were a couple of
bloopers in this video so I'm gonna roll
those and I will see you guys again real
soon hey guys
not not a great start literally like the
first thinking of the video I will small
filter window
all right
well okay so
all right it's a fun fact about shooting
this scene it turns out that they
actually deactivate the other car and
when I left to shoot this scene I left
the real card in here again and actually
had to go down and have them reactivated
it's been a day
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try again
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