Richmond Hotel Premier Sendai Ekimae

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Good breakfast (among our favorite in japan), very good and convenient location. Beds were also very comfortable. The possibility to grab a free ramen bowl in the evening was welcome and used a few times.

Wifi was unreliable. Setting up room cleaning style via TV was also a bit unreliable. Wish to have more timing options for cleaning. Biggest issue was the smell of the whole floor (11th floor). We intentionally booked a room on the higher floor to be away from the smoking floors - and we didn't smell any tabaco (which was great!). But the whole 11th floor, and in the rooms as well still had a very distinct and in my opinion strong "fresh plastic" small (or something similar). I'm not sure what is was, cleaning, or the walls/wallpapers, but you could smell it as soon as you exited the elevator. The smell wasn't in the elevator, other floor (where the washing machines were) or in the lobby, where also the breakfast was. So maybe we got unlucky with the floor.

Location was close to Sendai station, with Don Don Donki just across from the road. Property was near to Sendai Asaichi market, the train station and the covered shopping arcades.

Location close to train station, decent breakfast, late night soba snack

Room and bathroom very small, one side of the bed against the wall, second person hard to get off the bed, no space for two luggages.