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HotelChatter Flickr Pool :: A Guest Hates on The MO Tokyo's Voyeuristic Bathrooms
October 14, 2008 at 4:33 PM | 0 Comments
Lyh1 was kind enough to drop this photo of the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo's bathroom into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool -- and the guest who snapped this shot was also kind enough to share a little bit of feedback:
The shower and tub area is fully exposed. And right pass [sic] the foyer, you see the toilet cubicle. Not a room that you want to welcome outside guests.
I hated this bathroom. It's poorly lit and small. ... The dull grey marble give the whole place a dirty look. For a 5-star premium luxury hotel, this bathroom is just awful.
We feel you, bud: we can totally see how doing your business on that toilet may make you feel like you're kinda, uh, doing something private in public. We've felt semi-exposed in bathrooms before (NYLO was particularly traumatizing because the carpetless floors in the room added a hot audio component) -- and we don't feel our sexiest while we're on the throne.
And we hear you on the speckled grey marble too. But on the flipside, it actually probably hides dirt better than straight up black or white so maybe it doesn't look as dirty as it may really be. Oh wait, no, that's gross too. Nevermind.
Thanks for sharing!
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New Years Eve Hotels
New Years Eve Hotels: Tokyo's Mandarin Oriental
December 19, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
If we had to say goodbye to 2007 with a bang, we would hop on a plane to Tokyo and spend three party-filled nights at the Mandarin Oriental. We've never actually stayed inside a Mandarin Oriental room and we are making a point of doing this in 2008.
We've also never been to Tokyo although we done plenty of reading on it. So what better way to see a new city than from the top of this Mandarin Oriental. The lobby is actually located on the top floor (the 38th) and has panoramic views of Tokyo from every inch. So if you can't splurge on a penthouse suite, sipping tea in the lobby lounge is the next best thing.
From there, things only get better. The MO has some of the largest hotel rooms in all of Japan filled with high-tech gadgetry. The hotel also has a killer-looking spa on the 36th floor and several dining options, all with amazing views of the city.
We found a Mandarin Deluxe room from Dec. 30 to Jan. 2 for $635 a night. Wowzsa. So we won't be ringing in 2008 here but we can dream right?
[Photo: General13]
Cubicle Dreamin'
Cubicle Dreamin': Spoil Me In Tokyo's Mandarin Oriental
March 26, 2007 at 11:45 AM | 0 Comments
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K picks out her first choice in Tokyo. Enjoy.
Pictures were already enough to make me want to stay at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, which recently picked up an award for being one of the "most beautiful public spaces" in Japan's capital. Then I checked some customer reviews and found crazily positive titles littering the page: "Absolutely stunning!", "Don't stay anywhere else", "High expectations were more than met" and "Fantastic splurge". Plus a comment from a travel agent with 25 years' experience who was prompted to write her first online review ever because Tokyo's Mandarin was just so good.
Sitting right in the middle of Tokyo in the Nihonbashi district, I can just imagine dreamily staring over the city lights from the 38th floor, or popping down to the 36th to enjoy nearly 10,000 square feet of spa. Rooms are categorized according to their view: that might be to Tokyo Bay, the Palace, or even Mount Fuji, or all three if you book the presidential suite. I think that if you're going to survive a city as big and busy as Tokyo, you have to spoil yourself to have the ultimate place to come home to at night, and that sounds like the Mandarin Oriental at the moment--arigatou!
[Photo: MarkJL]
Related Stories:
· Mandarin Oriental Tokyo reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Japan's With the Style [HotelChatter]
