Lake Biwa Otsu Prince Hotel

Otsu is a beautiful city. being here for 3 days has given me more peace than a whole lifetime anywhere else. 大津は美しい街​​です。ここに3日間滞在しただけで、これまでの人生のどの場所で過ごした時よりも、深い安らぎを感じることができました。

The beautiful view of the lake from the rooms, the friendly and helpful staff.

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Nice view from a room (that I paid extra for high floor) Close to local restaurants

Because I was on the 32nd floor, one had to plan departures carefully, as the banked elevators segregated floor locations. Waits exceeded one minute, especially during checkout. The bell staff was very condescending upon my arrival with a bicycle. I was doing BIWAICHI bike ride around Lake Biwa. He literally yelled at me in Japanese for not understanding where to park my rented bicycle overnight(out in the rear of an open parking lot), some 500' from the hotel entrance! The hotels rented bicycles were all housed, and lined up under the entrance Porte cochere. Another example of financial segregation under the Prince hotel operations. The Shiga prefecture encourages the tourist activity of riding a bike around the lake; so this action of not encouraging proximal placement of non-hotel bicycles was disappointing. This hotel utilizes checkout kiosks, which made it convenient, if one had no room charges. But, only one staff at other times due to labor constraints. For such a highly acclaimed chain of hotels, I am seriously using many of chains, or local hotels next time. I may be old, and Prince hotels can discount my comments, but they need to remember that I have accumulated MANY friends over 72 years...