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Review: Courtyard Tokyo Station
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Date
February 2020
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I would very highly recommend the Prince Gallery in Tokyo – exceptional and large rooms, very high-end public places, convenient public transit options, and amazing breakfast in the morning (free as a welcome gift for Marriott elites)
Thanks for the recommendation, that’s definitely one of my top choices for the next visit.
Using my iPhone ‘notes’ I keep a digitally scanned copy just in case.
Yeah I probably would’ve been able to pull up a digital copy for the hotel if they required one, but thankfully they were very gracious about the whole situation.
I’m puzzled, how did you manage to enter Japan while leaving your passport in the plane? You could’ve been ended up like the movie ‘Terminal’ for the night. When I took MU to China, one of my fellow passengers at the immigration point has realized he’s lost his passport, most likely in the plane! Not a good place to be without his passport, I don’t know what ended up happening to him.
All the customers at the cafe seem like non Asians, and all instructions at the buffet are in English only… interesting, in such a monolingual country.
Buffets…it probably won’t come back for months, if not for a couple of years.
I took a few liberties in the storytelling: the itinerary was Beijing–Osaka–Tokyo, so I had actually cleared immigration in Osaka and left the passport on a domestic flight. Thank god!
I see, you wrote you didn’t search hotels until you landed at HND, so I automatically thought you took a non stop from Beijing, as you probably had earlier opportunity to do that while connecting at KIX. JL was offering free wifi on their domestic flights a few years ago.
I think you were using mobile data while searching hotels from tarmac of HND, and I think I’ve read you’ve used it in other places (maybe ride hailing in Warsaw?) as well. How do you roam (or obtain local SIMs) when out of country?
As a frequent visitor to Japan, you probably already had enough cash on you, but how do you normally acquire foreign cash?
Have you already written about those 2 topics?
Yep, I think I just got too pre-occupied at Osaka Airport. I believe I was scrambling to upload a YouTube video 🙂
I usually use KnowRoaming for easy and convenient roaming around the world. It isn’t the cheapest option, but saves you from getting SIM cards at every turn, especially on multi-country trips: princeoftravel.com/blog/knowroaming-your-global-roaming-solution
For foreign cash, I usually use Stack + US credit cards for point-of-sale transactions. Here’s my post on foreign spending strategies: princeoftravel.com/blog/whats-my-travel-spending-strategy