Palace Hotel Kakegawa

The room is clean and tidy, close to Kakegawa JR station and Shinkansen station! The breakfast is rich and worth staying.

The man at the front desk (with a Chinese accent?) was smiling the whole time and very helpful. Thank you. The room was not on a high floor, so I couldn't open the paper door because it would be visible from the neighborhood, but it was a room that felt like an old-fashioned hotel.

大浴場が良いですね。

The Palace Hotel used to be the most luxurious hotel around Kakegawa Station. I stayed there a few years ago, but recently the management changed... far from being luxurious... it's in a pretty bad state. First of all, a hotel bus was parked there as if it had crashed into the door of the hotel entrance, and a man who seemed to be the driver in a dirty sweatsuit came out from inside... There was a fountain-like water flowing at the hotel entrance and a pond in front of the front desk, but the water was drained and left unattended, and the plants were left untrimmed. The restaurant was basically closed, and the breakfast was pretty bad. Rice, miso soup, shredded cabbage, grilled fish, sausages, bacon... all of them were chemical, but the thing that surprised me the most was the bread. It was so bad that I wanted to throw it up the moment I put it in my mouth. I left everything and left it. The room had a squishy mattress, the toilet seat had no heating function, the washlet was quite retro, and you had to warm up the water first. The futon was patched up and had holes burned by cigarettes... You couldn't adjust the temperature of the air conditioner in the room. The electric kettle in the room was made in 1997, and it was dirty, which made me worry about hygiene... The large public bath was clean, but it was a men's and women's exchange system, and women only had one chance to use it... Why, when there was also a men's bath? When I asked, they said it was because of the coronavirus pandemic... This is just cost-cutting, even looking at other aspects. If it was a coronavirus pandemic, people would gather if it was made to be such a time-intensive, and everything is wrong. Or rather, it's in a state where the current parent company just bought it. They may want to protect their employees and stabilize management by cutting costs, but this will be completely counterproductive. It's still the most expensive in the Kakegawa Station area... and above all, there are no customers. It's empty. I think the people who used it feel the same way. I don't think I'll pay money to use it again.