I'm going to Kyushu
July 26 Saturday:
Depart Tokyo 9:30am
Arrive Fukuoka 11:20am
July 29 Tuesday:
Depart Fukuoka 10:00am
Arrive Tokyo 11:35am
(Which should be enough time for me to get from Haneda to Akabane GEOS in time to sign in for 1pm on Tuesday.)
I am staying at the JAL Resort Seahawk Hotel. Which is right next to the Yahoo Dome.
This was not my original idea, because it is fucking expensive (well... I mean... like $120-130 per night on average, as opposed to the $60-70 at the hotel I WANTED to stay at). But the problem is, all the cheap hotels in Fukuoka were booked up for the night of July 26th. Other nights were fine but the Saturday night was booked. And the way I figure it... switching hotels is a royal pain in the ass, so there's no point in staying 1 night at an expensive hotel and then 2 at a cheap one.
The other way I figure it is, if the weather sucks I'm going to spend a lot of time at the Yahoo Dome anyway, and this hotel is right next to the Yahoo Dome.
(I wonder if the baseball players stay there actually. I will have to ask... though I bet it'll sound a bit weird to be like "I'm staying at the hotel by the stadium, will I run into any of you guys there?" The Marines are in town for the Sat/Sun of my stay, and the Fighters for the Monday. The other problem is that I think it'd sound lame for me to say "Hey, so uh, I want to go see the Marines if the weather sucks, but if the weather is good I am going to go to Nagasaki and Hiroshima instead. Can you sneak me in if the weather sucks?")
What sucked is, I went to the mall, and went to JTB, and JTB lady said "We have no hotels. Period. The July 26th is booked. Why not go ask the nice people at KNT over there?" So I go to KNT... and they DID have rooms at the cheap hotel by the station that I was looking at! And, I am NOT making this up... in the 15 minutes between her saying "we have rooms" and drawing up the form and trying to make reservations, ALL OF THE ROOMS GOT BOOKED. She even printed out a paper to show me where they got booked -- there's some kendo tournament that a bunch of people were suddenly booking for. WTF.
I also couldn't really switch to do July 27-30 instead because I had already taken the 26th off from work... plus I think![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shiguma is supposed to be coming through down on the 29th on his way back to America.
But, dang. It's seriously like $200 more expensive for this hotel. It better be good!
So, I am going to Kyushu. Yay.
Depart Tokyo 9:30am
Arrive Fukuoka 11:20am
July 29 Tuesday:
Depart Fukuoka 10:00am
Arrive Tokyo 11:35am
(Which should be enough time for me to get from Haneda to Akabane GEOS in time to sign in for 1pm on Tuesday.)
I am staying at the JAL Resort Seahawk Hotel. Which is right next to the Yahoo Dome.
This was not my original idea, because it is fucking expensive (well... I mean... like $120-130 per night on average, as opposed to the $60-70 at the hotel I WANTED to stay at). But the problem is, all the cheap hotels in Fukuoka were booked up for the night of July 26th. Other nights were fine but the Saturday night was booked. And the way I figure it... switching hotels is a royal pain in the ass, so there's no point in staying 1 night at an expensive hotel and then 2 at a cheap one.
The other way I figure it is, if the weather sucks I'm going to spend a lot of time at the Yahoo Dome anyway, and this hotel is right next to the Yahoo Dome.
(I wonder if the baseball players stay there actually. I will have to ask... though I bet it'll sound a bit weird to be like "I'm staying at the hotel by the stadium, will I run into any of you guys there?" The Marines are in town for the Sat/Sun of my stay, and the Fighters for the Monday. The other problem is that I think it'd sound lame for me to say "Hey, so uh, I want to go see the Marines if the weather sucks, but if the weather is good I am going to go to Nagasaki and Hiroshima instead. Can you sneak me in if the weather sucks?")
What sucked is, I went to the mall, and went to JTB, and JTB lady said "We have no hotels. Period. The July 26th is booked. Why not go ask the nice people at KNT over there?" So I go to KNT... and they DID have rooms at the cheap hotel by the station that I was looking at! And, I am NOT making this up... in the 15 minutes between her saying "we have rooms" and drawing up the form and trying to make reservations, ALL OF THE ROOMS GOT BOOKED. She even printed out a paper to show me where they got booked -- there's some kendo tournament that a bunch of people were suddenly booking for. WTF.
I also couldn't really switch to do July 27-30 instead because I had already taken the 26th off from work... plus I think
shiguma is supposed to be coming through down on the 29th on his way back to America.But, dang. It's seriously like $200 more expensive for this hotel. It better be good!
So, I am going to Kyushu. Yay.
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Although Sky is definitely worth it; the problem is finding a weekend when Orix will be at Sky (not to mention trying to justify going all that way to see ORIX), and then praying for no rain. My friend's first Koshien experience was washed out last week.