Crowne Plaza Kobe

... part of the story was Bills idea, he’s so funny sometimes)! The hotel is ok, I am very surprised that an ANA Crowne Plaza isn’t a 4 star even though they say they are – I have no idea how Japan comes up with these star ratings because ...

... her back! I saw lots of little bakeries and restaurants. We drove through Kobe to the mountain side, to the Crowne Plaza Hotel  at Shin Kobe station. Just as we pulled up, and Bruno thought, 'Thank goodness Ronin didn't vomit,' Ronin began to vomit. ...

Here be the view of the lights of Kobe. Tonight Ronin locked our safe for us, then he made up his own code and would not tell us what it was. We had considered this as a possibility, but dismissed it as very unlikely. We shall not underestimate his powers ...

There is a mountain with cable-cars running up it and a garden running down it, and it's just behind our hotel! After a bit of a hilly pram-push, we hoisted the kiddies out, folded up the pram and managed to squeeze all that into a cable car. Minnie ...

... (not the shinkansen but the local train and even though its much slower, it is also heaps cheaper and we cant book in to the ANA Crowne Plaza until after 3pm) and we have to go back to Osaka to then catch the train to Kobe – go figure! We have BBC ...

... we managed while carrying both kids. It felt good to be traveling again. The sky is clear blue in Hiroshima. Our hotel, the ANA Crowne Plaza, was a long way from the Shinkansen station and no-one I asked knew where it was, even the cab drivers. It turned ...