KUMU Kanazawa by The Share Hotels

The hotel was fresh and contemporary. The lounge and dining area was fashionable and the bedrooms were well laid out. However, the ladder to the bunks was almost vertical and dangerous for children to climb up and down (especially during the middle of the night). The common lounge in the entrance level was not allowed to be used by guests if they had their own food and drinks and we were told to leave, even though there wasn’t a single other person there. Unfortunately, there was no other comfortable lounge for us to sit and relax. The hotel provides ‘tea tables’ on a couple of levels but these are large tables with ridiculous half stools that are very uncomfortable, and in a very dark internal environment with no natural light. There was no comfortable space for guests to sit and relax with their own drink. These tea tables provided a hibachi stove but no cooking implements to use it. A rudimentary rooftop space with picnic tables was a welcome relief for an evening DIY meal but too hot and with no shade during the baking hot day. Overall, it was a pleasant and basic hotel for a couple of days, the staff were friendly and helpful, but this hotel wasn’t half as good as the Kyoto location which had a guest lounge.