In article <btumi2$bcp9i$1@ID-201738.news.uni-berlin.de>, Haluk
Skywalker <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote:

> Ken, I got quite a few friends in hotel industry in Osaka. If you can give
> some details (location and rate range etc) I might come up with some names
> who can offer deeply discounted rates.
> 
> I worked in Osaka hotels 4 years.

Though not Ken, I'd appreciate a recommendation:  I usually stay in
Dontonbori, but the one we liked best, the DH, turned love-hotel only,
so I can't book ahead or for multiple nights.   Then we went to the
Dotonbori Hotel, IIRC, the one with the 4 big heads outside. A business
hotel . First time I've encounterd bed bugs since the 70's. A nice
business hotel is fine with us as, as we usually spend 2 nights in
Osaka turning our clocks around before traveling elsewhere.  In some
ryokans they really want your ass out during the day, and it's
sometimes not as quiet as you'd like.

Possibly in Shinsaibashi, as we've never stayed there and at least part
of it looks hip, while the other parts seems a little Mall-intense.

Medium to low in cost (internationally speaking) in Dotonbori or south
Shinsaibashi, if possible.  Any ideas?

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