karaksa hotel Sapporo

The location was GREAT, out the door into the very heart of the Tanukikoji shopping streets. Lots of food, shopping nearby without having to break a sweat! Also very value-for-money for the rooms provided. They have bathhouse/onsen facilities with jacuzzi, but I don't think it's very authentic onsen water as it smelt rather strongly of chlorine (like a swimming pool). But it was clean and good, we quite enjoyed our time dipping in the hot water to rest our souls. Breakfast was included and the price was very good overall. Staff spoke pretty fluent English; we wanted to look for a Kaiseki dinner that day and the lady at the reception was so nice to help us check out restaurants and even help us call up 5 - 6 restaurants to enquire about availability.

Paid parking, which was fine. But logistics of car movement could be improved. On the day of check-out, we collected our car but found the space / overall flow too restrictive to load our luggages. The carpark attendant told us to move onto the road, but we couldn't do so because we wanted to load the luggages. Our car ended up unintentionally stuck on the pedestrian walkway; while we were trying to load the luggages as fast as possible to clear the walkway. We had an elderly who was trying to board the car, but the carpark attendant was pretty rude and just kept rushing us to "move your car!". We get it, we're blocking the walkway, but my dad was trying to board and we're trying to load our luggages. A few more minutes won't kill anyone, he didn't have to be so rude about it.

Perfect location. The Norbesa mall is just across the street. It has a back door access that leads to Tanukikoji shopping street. The ECO stay option is a good way to encourage guests to enjoy their hotel stays while helping save the environment by refusing linen change during stay in exchange for ECO coins. Use these coins for free drinks.

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