Villa Fontaine Grand Tokyo Roppongi

I did a lot of research on hotels in this area because my friends were staying at the ANA Intercontinental. I wanted to find a hotel that had a decent size room for my luggage and walking distance to my friends hotel. I've traveled quite a bit to different countries, even though this was a 3 star hotel, felt more like a 5 star hotel. The room was spacious enough for me, and I had plenty of room. The room was comfortable, and the housekeeper was very attentive and provided fresh towels and bottled water everyday. In addition, the layout of the room is great especially the shower door. When I open the door when done with the shower, the water doesn't splash onto the floor. My favorite is the bidet, this makes it luxurious. This should be a standard for hotels. The location of the hotel was great, it was about a six minute walk to my friend's hotel and like 10 minutes to the train stations. I had a wonderful stay and highly recommend this hotel.

I enjoyed my stay here. It’s a very reasonably priced hotel with decent sized rooms (for Tokyo), and is clean and well-maintained. It does all of the basics right, and the staff are friendly and efficient. Room service is available from a restaurant attached to the hotel (a steak restaurant). Despite its location near roads and the subway, I found it to be exceptionally quiet. The location is decent, but I found myself having to change trains frequently to get anywhere from the Roppongi-Itchome station. Maybe that’s just me.

A bit lackluster. We were coming towards the end of our trip. Being a family of 3 adults, it was a cramped room, with the addition of our luggages. We did not have this issue with other hotels since they were more spacious compared to HVF even when similarly priced. Besides the cramped room, the washroom was a nice setup. With the addition of a nice panasonic hair dryer which made me want to buy one. Service was okay. A lady assisted us with our luggage transfer to Haneda which was a great help. But I don’t like how most of the stuff in the hotel is self service. As well as the make-up room which was once for every 3 days. Outside the hotel, the breakfast was mid at best. There is a nice herb chicken which I looked forward to, but the rest were not spectacular. Or worth having at all. The lady however who handles the Breakfast at BLT is nice and speaks great english. My main problem with this hotel is the Metro Line. The location is right underneath Izumi Gardens which is a huge office building. So expect a large crowd coming INTO the roppongi itchome station. Its fine if you’re leaving during the morning and coming back during rush hours since its opposite the flow of traffic. But do bare in mind that Roppongi Itchome is not connected to most of the main lines. You’ll have to transfer either at omote sando or somewhere else to reach most of everything, which is a hassle when coming back to the hotel from a long day of traveling. I do give it that you are close to Tokyo Tower, but after a long (hopefully breezy) walk uphill towards it, there’s no metro line near Tokyo Tower that brings you back to Roppongi Itchome. So be prepared for the long walk back through azubudai Hills. (I couldnt take pictures of inside our room due to how messy and crammed it was)