The Royal Park Hotel Kyoto Umekoji

I would definitely stay here again! We stayed here with our small son for 10 days as our base for exploring Kyoto and the surrounding areas, and it was the perfect place to stay with a kid. Right outside the hotel is a playgroud and garden, and just a 4 minute walk away is an aquarium in one direction and a train museum in the other. These are all great kid options for more restful days or rainy days. Every weekend when we visited in June had a small festival in the park, too! On top of that, you're a short walk, maybe 4-5 minutes, from convenient buses and restaurants. The hotel itself was clean, comfortable, has a convenience store on the bottom floor, onsens, washer/dryer machines, and very helpful staff. A couple of tips: 1) Japanese washer/dryers are small. They will wash and dry 3kg of clothes intwo hours. Don't bother putting more in; they will take forever to dry. We tried once, and it took 5 hours to drive, for a total of 7 hours to wash and dry. We got in the habit of washing a day's worth of clothes for our family of 3, and that was perfect. It's the amount that fits in the plastic onsen purse that's in your room. The machine only takes 100 yen coins. 2) The beds are really hard, and I had trouble sleeping at first. I asked for extra blankets and made a mattress topper of sorts, which helped. Even with the beds being less than ideal for me, I would still stay here again.

The room was really clean, Wi-Fi was great. Having the Family Mart Next door was amazing. The AC was the only downside because it didn’t get very cool in the room. But the rest of the stuff still made the stay amazing

Incredibly friendly and helpful staff. Laundry facilities were awesome.

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