May 2024 Grand Opening: Inside Super Hotel Saitama Honjo Natural Hot Spring – Room Tour

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Here’s Part 2 of our sneak-peek report from the preview event of the newly opened “Super Hotel Saitama Honjo Natural Hot Spring,” which opened on May 17.

Part 1 introduced the aromatic freshly baked bread for breakfast 🍞, the soothing hot spring ♨, and the organic amenities!

This time, we’ll introduce the guest rooms where you’ll spend most of your time at the hotel ✨

We’ll take a closer look at the rooms designed to support a comfortable night’s sleep for tired business travelers—a hallmark of business hotels!

Comfortable Rooms Equipped with the Three Essentials for Business Trips

There is a wide variety of room types, including Standard Rooms, Extra Rooms, Hollywood Twin Rooms, Sofa Rooms, Super Rooms, and Family Rooms.

These rooms are thoughtfully designed, featuring a large desk, a sofa, ⚡high-speed Wi-Fi⚡—the three essentials for a business trip—and family-friendly plans such as free co-sleeping for preschool children.

Extra Room for a Relaxed Stay

My favorite was the Extra Room. Apparently, about 60% of the 138 rooms are this type.

Among the business hotels I’ve stayed at, this one has the largest desk and a generously sized single-seater sofa—so comfortable!! You might wonder why it’s “sofa”🛋 and not “sofa”🛋—I agree. However, since Super Hotel uniformly uses “sofa” in its room descriptions, I will use “sofa” from here on.

Whether you’re working, on online meetings, editing videos, streaming, updating social media, writing a diary, planning the next day’s trip, or enjoying a drink in your room (the list goes on!), there is ample space to fully enjoy your time in the room. All rooms share a large TV size and a simple yet comfortable layout.

Since you might fall asleep watching TV in bed, you might prefer enjoying a movie on the sofa with a cold beer in hand.

Lightning-Fast Wi-Fi and USB Ports Beside the Bed for Perfect Charging

As I mentioned before, as of this date, the Wi-Fi speed is 190 Mbps. It promises an ultra-comfortable internet experience ✨

Beside the bed, there is a 2-outlet power socket, USB port, and Micro USB port—everything you need.

Charging your smartphone beside the bed is crucial. While they say sleeping with your phone nearby isn’t good for sleep, leaving it on the desk away from the bed can be a bit unsettling.

Aside from beside the bed, the desk area with the fridge and electric kettle is also equipped with two power outlets, USB port, multi-cable, and wired LAN, making it very convenient. My routine when I enter the room is to change into slippers, spread out my luggage, and then find a charging spot. I believe many people include finding an outlet in their routine.

What's the Difference Between the Standard Room and the Sofa Room??

To be honest, there's not a big difference! Simply put,

Standard Room: The chair at the desk is a smaller ottoman
Sofa Room: The chair at the desk is a sofa

However, this sofa can be converted into a sofa bed, so it can be used as a double occupancy room.

This flexibility tailored to guests’ needs may be the secret to its excellent cost performance☺

Super Room and Family Room

For over 20 years, Super Hotel has realized the Super Room—rooms with bunk beds—as one of its methods for accommodating more guests by maximizing space.

Bunk beds in a hotel are quite rare, aren't they?

What business hotels need is a prime location, efficiency, simplicity, and affordable pricing, but this use of space might be the best answer to the business hotel formula.

The Family Room is a special room that, in addition to the bunk beds of the Super Room, features a spacious bathroom and a sofa. Since there are only two of these rooms, families planning to stay should aim to book the Family Room.

Customizable Pillows That Guarantee a Good Night’s Sleep

—Also noteworthy are the pillows co-developed with local high school students—

Speaking of Super Hotel, it's known for its selection of pillows.
Near the hotel entrance, you'll find the pillow bar lined up.

You can choose from 8 types of pillows, which is popular, but at the Honjo-Kodama location, they have evolved even further.

In collaboration with local Honjo City high school students, the bedding manufacturer Showa Nishikawa, and Japan Pharmaceutical University, the “Garyu Pillow Fricle” was born.

By adjusting the height of each of the three materials—“down,” “pipes,” and “fiberfill”—you can achieve four different levels of comfort with a single pillow. Finding your favorite pillow is not easy, so the ability to try them out is another attractive feature.

After a Restful Sleep, Check the Crowd Status Before Heading to Breakfast!

One thing I felt anew during this visit is that small DX (digital transformations) can lead to great convenience.

I was impressed that operational efficiencies do not cause inconvenience for guests!

For example, from the TV in your room, you can see the crowd levels at the breakfast area and public bath.

Ideally, I want to enjoy breakfast at a leisurely pace, and since it's a shared space, I want to avoid crowds if possible...

Also, by indicating your planned breakfast time for the next day on the board near the breakfast area with a magnet, you can predict likely busy times.

This allows the hotel to control staff deployment and preparation of freshly baked bread, benefiting both guests and the hotel.

Seeing that small acts of thoughtfulness lead to “comfort” is truly enlightening!

Newly opened hotels are packed with improvements and know-how that empathize with guests’ needs—maybe even overflowing!

Being greeted with a warm “Welcome back” as you soothe your travel fatigue in the Nakayama Road Hot Spring, then drifting off to sleep on your favorite pillow, only to wake up to a delicious breakfast—it’s honestly the best experience.

Don’t forget to enjoy your high-speed Wi-Fi in your room too!!

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Editor's Note

This time, I ended up recording the room in video, and I completely forgot that our owned media wasn’t able to support video (tears).

I extracted still images from the video, but I regret that many of them did not capture the entire room! I will improve by ensuring that next time’s report includes photos that clearly convey the entire room.