"Haluk Skywalker" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote in message
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> "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com>, iletide sunu yazdi
> news:nhb500huorf7n83rik7nrq8qnmllanv9j0@4ax.com...
> > My parents are coming to Japan in May, so we're looking at somewhere
> > for 2 weeks in Osaka at a reasonable price - probably business hotel,
> > or maybe even a weekly mansion.
> >
> > However, looking at a few Japanese hotel aggregators, all of them only
> > allow booking 3 months in advance and/or stays of 7 or 8 days max.
> > Even going direct to hotels, they seem to have the same conditions.
> >
> > Compared with us trying to book a holiday in June in Germany, Austria
> > and France, where we booked everything in one afternoon, with almost
> > all the hotels having online booking systems that work properly (and
> > in English), it's a real pain in the bum.
> >
> > Am I going to have to resort to a real travel agent and hope they have
> > decent discounts for slightly longer stays?
> >
>
> 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.
>
>

The "love" hotels are the best deal if you are staying all night. You might
feel lonely though by yourself!