Grand Prince Hotel Osaka Bay

Joshua

We stayed here for four nights in March of this year. The hotel lobby, grounds and restaurants are all very very nice. The hotel looks amazing on the inside. The breakfast was really good, same with the pizza place, top notch. I know this a bit older of a hotel but our room was definitely pretty dated. Looked like it was very much from the 90s. That being said everything was clean and worked as it should. The room was also the biggest room we had Japan, like truly massive for just a single queen bed.

Mark McCracken

Club Lounge room on a weekday night. Nearly a year after this hotel sadly changed management to Seibu Prince, and the Club Lounge suffered through, shall we say, managerial experimentation, the Club Lounge has returned to much the same as it was under Hyatt management. Specifically, it has the same pleasant smell; the music is the same pleasant songs; the afternoon tea is the same (fruit, two deserts and one pastry) and the breakfast is the same (1F, same food, same loud tourists). The evening food selection has less variety, but you can still get a meal out of it. Gone are the rice, bread, cheese, lettuce salad and hot dishes. The alcohol selection is basically the same. They also added the nightcap hour of chocolate and whisky (including 12-year old Canadian Club) that Hyatt would occasionally have, to the 2 regular hours of cocktails. Two big changes are helpful. First, little kids are not allowed after 630 pm and second...the place is empty. Even though there was an event at Intex that day, and breakfast the next morning was packed, I counted only about 16 people stopping by the Club Lounge in the evening, so you can sit in your favorite chair and enjoy the quite atmosphere. Most importantly, the club staff is still exceptionally kind and friendly, making it arguably the best hotel lounge in Osaka. Some staff are the same, and the new staff have the same outgoing personalities and kindness that make the club a great place originally.

Stefan Popien

Very spacious rooms, good hotel, but the location is not the best, there's not much around.

General Dizzaray

Worst hotel I've ever visited for the price we paid, and I've been around trust me. Expensive, and we could hear every footstep above us and every time someone closed a door on either side (plus the vibrations of slammed doors resonated through the walls and into our bed - unbelievably poor - we slept better at the cheap hostel we used the day before!!) We asked to be moved rooms, which they agreed to, but the issues continued so clearly the building is not sound insulated at all. The only saving grace was the free shuttle bus from the hotel back into Osaka station (one way). We went here to be close to Universal Studios, but even that took a 25 taxi/45 min trains due to the location. Avoid!

JJ

Pros - The BEST hotel breakfast I have ever had. Amazing smoked salmon and karrage chicken. Other food were very tasty and high quality. This is what 5 star hotel should be like. - Room was clean and spacious Cons - Room had some weird pounding noise at night at regular intervals but it didn't bother me.