Hotel Rihga Place Higobashi (Osaka, Japan)

A stone's throw from the nearest metro station and a mere ten-minute stroll from Osaka central train station; it's easy to see why so many travellers have been won over by the convenience of this hotel's location. Being within a 20 minute stroll of the Shinsaibashi and Dotonbori shopping areas was deemed a big plus too.

It has been noted that the level of service provided by the impossibly polite staff members here is nothing short of exemplary. Indeed, a significant number of visitors believed the hotel's employees were undoubtedly its biggest asset.

Despite being located in a bustling business district, this hotel affords plenty in the way of peace and quiet. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of guests who stayed here liked this very much.

It is fair to say that the guest rooms here are — even by modern Japanese standards — practically Lilliputian in scale. Most travellers agreed that booking a double room was the best approach.

In addition to an almost constant smell of tobacco in the corridors and lifts, numerous visitors have complained of an altogether nastier and more potent odour coming out of the toilets in the bathrooms.

A great many frustrated visitors have been pretty damning about the hotel's free Wi-Fi. As well as being painfully slow, it seems to drop out on a frustratingly regular basis too.