AMANEK Beppu YULA-RE

Excellent resort-like style hotel within 5min walking distance from Beppu Station. Super convenient if you’ll be using lots of public transportation to & from local areas. Not as many restaurant options nearby but the hotel itself was clean & new - service was great. Our twin room was very spacious with a separate bath & shower room. Modern tech integration with iPad software control for lights & aircon but con is that the digital lights at the control panels at night were too bright in the rooms (we had to put paper & tape over some to make the room dark for sleeping).
They offer complimentary drinks in the lobby area, you pick up your own Yukata & belt from the lobby for the onsen upstairs.
You request for bottles of water from the lobby daily but they should just provide a refillable water station where guests can refill themselves instead for a more eco efficient solution.
The roof infinity pool was lovely both in daytime & night though night time tends to be more crowded. The onsen was lovely & clean.
Overall decent hotel & we enjoyed ourselves.

Room is amazing, beautifully designed and onsen’s view is awesome!
Welcome drink throughout the day and you can top up 1000yen free flow alcohol until 10pm (which is super worth it because the selection of drinks is good)

What could be improved: Staff were not welcoming and not friendly. We waited at the lobby for our turn because one of the staff asked us to just wait to be called, only to find our later that there’s another staff with a clipboard that we need to put our names on in order to be called.

Loved the design of the building. Rooms are spacious with deep soaking tubes, auto lights and informative touch screen monitors. Everything in the hotel was clearly labeled for non-Japanese visitors. One can check out a cute selection of yukatas for the onsen. The ¥1,000 all U can drink/free flow Happy Hr was fantastic with a decent variety of beverages. Breakfast with a nice assortment of tempuras is the best!! Discounted validated parking at ¥500 a night is convenient. Would absolutely stay here again.

What could be improved: Nothing really. The staff was very helpful and many speak fluent English.

Check in and check out was seamless. Breakfast fantastic. We swam in the rooftop pool evening and morning and were wondering why there weren’t more people there - excellent facility- incredible view.

What could be improved: A better explanation of the ‘free flow’ drink ‘check in/welcome drink’ would have been nice. We weren’t familiar with this expression or service until it was too late…

Close to the train station (5 min. Walking) and comfortable. Rooms are spacious and beds comfortable. The yukata you can use during your stay is a nice touch, also the nice plastic woven bag and the good quality pajamas. The hotel has a more modern look than the others in the same area, didn't use the onsen because we visited others in the area. Good variety of breakfast options. The non-alcoholic free drinks are water, juice, tra coffee and probably a couple of soft drinks, nothing extraordinary but good to have

What could be improved: The breakfast area was busy and they were pretty inflexible with check in time, couldn't get in a minute earlier. But then they close the onsen area from 10 am, so we couldn't use it before check out. Staff is ok, a bit cold. Amenities (brushes, onsen towels, etc) were only available at the onsen and not in the rooms or reception, unlike other hotels.