506 rooms and suites
3-2-1 Nishi, Naha City, Okinawa 900-0036
www.loisir-naha.com
www.loisir-spatower.com
This hotel boasts Naha city’s highest bed capacity and one of the few natural hot springs in Okinawa. It comprises two buildings, with the main Loisir Hotel building constructed in 1993 and the Loisir Spa Tower added in 2009 in response to increased numbers of visitors to the city.
Naha Airport, a duty-free mall and four golf courses are about seven, 14 and 40 minutes away by car respectively.
Rooms The hotel offers two- to four-star categories of rooms to suit different budgets. The Loisir Hotel building offers 417 rooms while the high-end Spa Tower has 89.
I was checked into a room with a balcony in the 12-storey Spa Tower. Designed with cheerful colours as well as motifs reflecting Okinawa’s ocean, flowers and sun, my spacious City View Superior Twin room provided the usual amenities business travellers will appreciate, such as a comfortable bed, work desk, flat-screen TV, mini bar, safe and hair dryer. Trouser press or an iron can be requested for free.
With the free Wi-Fi (for all guests), I was able to check some emails but not for long, as the desk and bedside reading lamps somehow did not offer bright-enough lighting.
Spa Tower guests are entitled to complimentary use of the hot spring at its Churaspa on the second floor, which opens from 14.00 to as late as 23.00 (there is also a Loisir Spa at the Loisir Hotel building). Pity I could not make it in time for this luxury offer during my hasty one-night stay, but a relaxing soak in the bathtub, which was separate from the toilet and wash basin, sufficed.
Meeting facilities The hotel is regarded as one of Naha’s MICE-friendly accommodation providers.
While the Spa Tower offers a medium-size banquet hall on the third floor for up to 250 pax in theatre setting, the Loisir Hotel building offers lots more across its first, second, third and 12th floors. It houses 10 banquet halls, the largest of which accommodates up to 900 pax (theatre), the smallest, up to 20 (round-table); one event hall for 300 (theatre); three private rooms for 12 to 40 (depending on the set-up), and one Japanese-style room for up to 40 (round-table). Five of these spaces have built-in audiovisual equipment, while the rest can easily have the equipment set up on demand.
F&B Five F&B outlets are gathered inside the Loisir Hotel building: Fontaine offers buffet meals for up to 150 pax; Izumitei, Japanese and Chinese cuisines for 106 pax; Papillon, BBQ at the poolside and garden for 125; Sirene, French cuisine for 71; and Planete, light food, drinks and piano music for 64.
Breakfast at the spacious Fontaine restaurant on the first floor is exclusive for Spa Tower guests. It offers a good spread of the usual Western fare such as toast, bacon and eggs, and salad, as well as Okinawan dishes.
Sirene only operates for private parties, which require reservation at least three days in advance.
FACT FILE
Maximum number of pax for meetings 1,000
Maximum number of pax for banquets 600
Recent events held
• 13th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells welcome party for 100 pax and reception for 477 pax, October 2013
• Joint Annual Symposium of the Vacuum Society of Japan and the Surface Science Society of Japan welcome party, reception and dinner for 100 pax, November 2013
• Worldwide Japanese Automobile Group awards ceremony for 30 pax, January 2014
• International pharmaceutical firm, catering for 1,200 pax (along with other hotels at the Southeast Botanical Gardens), March 2014
