Hotel And Rooms Shin-Osaka (ホテル・アンドルームス新大阪)

Back at Hotel And Rooms Shin-Osaka (ホテル・アンドルームス新大阪) again. I have reviewed this place before and I am back - 

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Back in Osaka after my meeting in Tokuyama. Had to spend the night here as we have a meeting here the next day.

As in the evening we will have to attend the conference again, I grabbed dinner immediately after checking in. I went to Maru de Sankaku ○ de ∇ （まるでさんかく）again as it is near the hotel and hence convenient.

Knowing that I will definitely be hungry in the night during the conference, I also got some desserts.

Breakfast the next morning. Breakfast here is always good. I am usually one of the first few to enter so I get to pick where I want to sit, which is usually the counter seat facing the windows.

As the customer meeting was in the afternoon, I spent the morning working in my hotel room and for lunch, I came to the same hotel restaurant that served breakfast.

When on a work trip, I am usually not in the mood to go some place far for food and would usually opt for something convenient like instant ramen or a restaurant very near the hotel. Luckily they serve soba lunch (not free of course) with the left over side dishes from breakfast.

In the evening, when I came back from work, I bought instant ramen from the convenient store and had the left over pie from the night before for dessert as I attended the last night of the work conference.

The next morning, I took the morning shinkansen back after breakfast at the hotel.

Last time, I was in room 905, this time, I was in room 705.

Another thing that I liked about this hotel is that, even when you do not ask for house keeping, they provide you with fresh towels. After my meetings, I would find fresh towels hanging in a bag on my door when I return.

Maru de Sankaku (鯛白湯らーめん ○de▽)

For dinner on both my work nights at Osaka, I went for dinner at this Ramen restaurant called Maru de Sankaku (鯛白湯らーめん ○de▽).

Website: https://tabelog.com/osaka/A2701/A270301/27107953/

The place was small but had this fancy feeling when it comes to a ramen place.

On my first night, I was confused as there wasn't any ramen on the menu. There is a ticketing machine at the front and I was wondering why there wasn't any ramen on the menu for about 5 mins before deciding to enter anyways.

I opted for the red curry and this is how it was presented. The curry was delicious, the chicken was also soft and yummy. I liked that they added a piece of chicken skin on top so that I could enjoy different textures.

The next night, I decided to return to try their ramen and luckily for me, they served ramen that night!

The sea bream based soup was absolutely delicious. The presentation was also totally on point. I ordered an extra platter of sides to got with my ramen and even that was presented in such a beautiful manner.

The sides included some fried slices of burdock, renkon, pumpkin, radish, lady finger and onsen tamago. Everything was delicious. I didn't know that burdock fried this way would give such a nice accent to ramen.

 

Hotel And Rooms Shin-Osaka (ホテル・アンドルームス新大阪)

Review of a single room at Hotel And Rooms Shin-Osaka (ホテル・アンドルームス新大阪).

Website: https://www.hotel-androoms.com/aso/

The bed is comfy and it was nice that the window was right next to the bed though.

There is a nice table at the side of the bed for work.

Very satisfied with this work table as I can face the TV while I work.

There is also a phone on the table for travellers to bring with them while exploring so that they can connect to the internet.

Love that the bathroom is big.

There is also a big bathtub there.

I was on the 9th floor and stayed in the same room for 2 nights.

Brought my own snacks from home and set up a little snack section for myself as I work in the room.

This is the layout of my floor.

At the hotel there is a sento, for those who enjoy a nice hot bath in a big tub.

I was pleasantly surprised that there are 2 massage chairs in the room and as there were no one there, I got to enjoy the entire area and massage chair by myself.

Breakfast the next morning.

Not sure if it was a thing for hotels in Kyoto and Osaka but both the hotels that I stayed in served tempura for breakfast. They also served cute little cakes for desserts.

Breakfast selection on the 2nd morning. Overall, the breakfast was good and I like that the restaurant was clean. The only down side is that there are only 4 long tables there for sharing so you are bound to be next to someone or directly in front of someone.

For those who like to take their own sweet time in their hotel room in the morning, they can opt to enjoy breakfast in the room too as the hotel offers breakfast delivery.

 

First overnight work trip - Osaka Tokyu Rei Hotel

Had my first overnight work trip in Osaka. 

We had to meet with clients in the morning, afternoon and again the next day. So we had to spend the night there.

We stayed at Osaka Tokyu Rei Hotel.

Website: https://www.tokyuhotels.co.jp/osaka-r/

Here's the entrance of my single room. Everything in this room was clean~

The basic bathroom and toilet unit. As you can see here, the toilet bowl is turned at and angle towards the bathtub and the bathtub's width is narrower where the basin is. This kind of configuration is common for smaller units.

My table with lots of papers on it!

There's even a handy phone which I will not use.

Quite convenient actually. It's the first time I've seen one and I can imagine how useful this would be for tourists and it will definitely safe them money too as they do not need to rent a portable wifi for their trip.

View from my room. Not bad actually....I can see the HEP Five ferris wheel from my room.

My room plan comes with a buffet breakfast in the morning which looks decent.

Later that night, I went for dinner with my colleague at Botejyu for some okonomiyaki and got treated since I was the kouhai~ Yay!

In return, I treated my senpai to Pablo cheese tart. I got the Pablo cheese pie as I've never seen it before. Had it later that night in my hotel room and it was surprisingly good! Will definitely grab one again next time.

While I thought that I was up early for breakfast, my colleague was already done when I was on the way in. The breakfast was really good as it had a wide selection.

As we had to check out in the morning and our meeting won't be till 2 in the afternoon, we went to the Afternoon tea cafe to work and grab some lunch. Here is my sandwich which was ok.

Before boarding the shinkansen, I bought this Kobe pudding to try as it was one of the souvenirs that had an award mark on it. So it must be good right?

Verdict: It's good but I don't think it is something that I will buy again as it is too sweet to my liking.