HOTEL CoCoDe plus

Location is convenient as it's walking distance to subway, kintetsu, JR and airport bus! (there're also restaurants, lawsons stores, etc close by) Room is quite small for 3 of us (2 adults and 1 child) (coming from Oz, so we feel very squeezy). There're coin laundry machines located at ground floor lift lobby (but it's not the big commercial size machine, so it takes longer and costs more to dry our clothes). Not much service is required during the stay as there're not much you can do in the room. (Rooms have small elec. hot plate for simple cooking/heat up water) though. Hotel manager was very helpful. He let us store our luggage after checkout and help organise taxi pickup and load the luggage onto the taxi! Overall, not bad and I would recommend this hotel for single/couple for budget accommodation.

We stayed at Hotel Cocode+ for one night as we were transmitting in Osaka. Location is ultra convenient close to Uehommachi station. The room was simple and our family of five slept comfortably in a studio like room in Japanese futons. It’s not a hotel and think of it more like an air bnb for a studio room. It more than serves its purpose. Would highly recommend for a budget traveller of five. Restaurants are convenient nearby and if you stayed for a few days there are coin laundry facilities on site.

We arrived at the Sheraton Miyako Hotel via the airport limousine bus and we walked for about 8 mins to the hotel. The Uehommaachi subway station (on the green line) is under the Sheraton Miyako but our 2-days Osaka Amazing Pass could only be used on the pink line where Tanimachi-4 Chome is the nearest but that also made commuting easy. My family room was the only unit on the highest floor (8th) and with an open-air access to the roof-top, the cold air made our room very cold in winter. We slept on tatami but the mattress and the pillow were so flat & thin thus making sleeping uncomfortable. The toilet / bath room was so tiny. The staffs couldn’t speak English so that’s a handicap for a foreigner to communicate with them. Checking-out was simple - just drop the keys into the key-box at the small unmanned reception counter on the 1st floor. The coin-dryers next to the counter were cheap at 100yen for 10mins but they didn’t dry well enough despite that we paid for 6 rounds. We ended up hanging up and spreading the clothes in our room overnight and they were dried as we turned on the warm air on the air-conditioner. Overall the location was not bad - the subway exit 11 is the nearest to the hotel and the underground walkway connects to HiHi Town which has many eateries serving cheap and good meals. There are a few supermarkets nearby and made buying necessities a breeze.