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Have been staying at the Dai Ichi in Tokyo for the last few days on a very good rate for their recently opened executive lounge. I know another poster has booked this (it qualifies for the Amex/World Hotels offer) and someone else queried the club floor offering, so here goes.
We paid £240 a night before the Amex rebate. Flexible rate but heavily discounted by booking 10 weeks out.
No special check in arrangements, assigned room on the 19th floor looking South towards the Tokyo Tower. All club rooms are on 19 or 20.
Room was fine, some of the bathroom fittings felt dated but it all worked well. L’occitaine toiletries in large dispensers plus some other stuff.
Exec rooms come with a free minibar that is replenished daily. Includes a lot – 2 half bottles of wine, 5 miniature spirits, beers, soft drinks, crisps etc.
Club lounge had free flow booze from 8am to 8.30pm including Laurent Perrier champagne, Japanese wines, Japanese gin & vodka plus whisky, a beer machine, tea, coffee, soft drinks.
Food service was reasonable – 3 offerings a day and sufficient to tide you over between meals.
Exec floor also comes with a range of breakfast options – we found the best to be in the lounge, beating both the buffet and the A La carte offer (which was very limited).
Anyway, hope that’s of some use. Certainly seemed like a good value for money proposition to me.
Sounds great. Thanks for sharing.
Yes thanks. Very useful. Were the rooms old or actually needed a refurb? So no modern techs?
The prices seem to jump for a 7 night. But 6 night shows a huge reduction.The rooms weren’t new but were in good condition. The only odd thing was the shower fittings which were white plastic. Doesn’t reduce the functionality but looked out of place and the (white plastic) handle on the shower door was discoloured. But for the price point t I’m not quibbling that.
The lounge was however brand new – opened 1st April.
The prices seem to jump for a 7 night
Just to add, if you don’t need to be in Tokyo for that long, I wouldn’t spend a week there. It was massively over-touristed and I got far more out of the other places we visited during our trip. A special shout out for Kobe which was a manageable size and had the friendliest people you could ever to meet – as if they wanted the visitor traffic.
I’d love to spend longer in the country – but would 100% focus on the tier 2 & 3 cities.
Thanks for this, looks like a good option for when I go early next year and could work remotely for a couple of days from the lounge. I had a look on the hotels website and was a bit confused about how you actually get a room with lounge access though. Do you book a room and then the lounge access seperately?
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