The Orion Hotel Motobu Resort & Spa

“Relaxing and carefree stay”

Stayed for 3 nights on vacation with my wife and a toddler. Overall I have a pleasant stay and I will stay again. Pros: - Location! This property is part of the Aquarium park on the far north end. You can walk to the aquarium from the hotel grounds. If you want to enjoy quiet Okinawa witho… lisää

Stayed for 3 nights on vacation with my wife and a toddler. Overall I have a pleasant stay and I will stay again. Pros: - Location! This property is part of the Aquarium park on the far north end. You can walk to the aquarium from the hotel grounds. If you want to enjoy quiet Okinawa without sacrificing convenience this is the place for you. - Cleanliness! As we are traveling with a toddler we do double clean everything. We are unable to observe any dirt/ dust from wiping (it’s literally magic!) - Good choices of restaurants/ Bars, and they are all kids friendly. - It is only a walking distance from the beach, and it is a lagoon. Not surprised to find coral fishes during summer months. - Good hotel ground and grass fields for you to play with your kids! - Good shop selection, incl their own beers (Orion is a brewery in Okinawa) - Good transport for drivers and non-drivers alike. Airport buses comes here directly! - Don’t bother picking and choosing: all rooms have ocean view with view of the Ie Island! - Plenty of self-serve laundry machines available. - Good service. What I particularly like is that they walk the luggage with you and show you the room. This does bring in a little bit of Maldivian resort feel. Cons: - This is still more of a Japanese oriented hotel hence English level of staff is average. Whilst most are able to understand you please do not expect fluent communication. - Common in Okinawa you will find graves close to the ocean, this property is no exception to this. How they hide this from guest view is quite clever thou (one of this is the Ryukyu Garden they have on site). Whilst this is mostly hidden from guests view please re-consider if this bothers you. - Whilst reception did explain housekeeping is not everyday I still can’t figured out what day they clean the rooms. (They only bring in towels but no service/ bed turn-down was done)

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“Beautiful Views and Lovely Property”

Hotel Orion Motobu Resort was an oasis. The site feels brand new, with big, comfortable, clean, and eco-friendly rooms. Positives: beautiful view of the sea from balcony, free parking, tasty breakfast included, the Okinawan restaurant was outstanding for trying local foods, attentive staff, the pro… lisää

Hotel Orion Motobu Resort was an oasis. The site feels brand new, with big, comfortable, clean, and eco-friendly rooms. Positives: beautiful view of the sea from balcony, free parking, tasty breakfast included, the Okinawan restaurant was outstanding for trying local foods, attentive staff, the property sits right on the Expo park. Negatives: no gym, no room service, the spa was closed at the time due to the COVID state of emergency which was understandable. Also, nearby Bise tree grove is fun to explore, but, I think due to it being summer, there were large spiders everywhere in the trees!

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“Mixed ...”

As with all Japanese hotels I have ever stayed in ....maybe 30 or so, the service was impeccable. Rooms were very large, all with balconies, sea views, good beds and bedding, Aircon, excellent bathrooms, limited coffee and tea making, internet TV etc. Two out of the 5 onsite restaurants were shut.… lisää

As with all Japanese hotels I have ever stayed in ....maybe 30 or so, the service was impeccable. Rooms were very large, all with balconies, sea views, good beds and bedding, Aircon, excellent bathrooms, limited coffee and tea making, internet TV etc. Two out of the 5 onsite restaurants were shut... apparently permanently as was part of the spa. Beaches were super safe and beautiful but sea was vv cold as was the outdoor pool. Restaurants in the area were very limited - the best required a car. There was no bar in the hotel except for beer, no coffee bar or all day cafe apart from the all day dining option - a bit pricey for a coffee and a sandwich. Place is fine for a couple of days but the North of the island is not the best for tourists in terms of activities - especially if the weather is variable ..

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“Hotel caters to tours”

This is one of those hotels that has large groups of people on tour buses come in. So if you are on one of those tours, I would say that this hotel is great. But if you are not: There is only one restaurant that does not do course menu, and this restaurant gets booked by the tour buses, so your onl… lisää

This is one of those hotels that has large groups of people on tour buses come in. So if you are on one of those tours, I would say that this hotel is great. But if you are not: There is only one restaurant that does not do course menu, and this restaurant gets booked by the tour buses, so your only options to eat at the hotel are to pay 8000 yen for dinner unless you want to just eat pizza at the Italian restaurant. The Orion bar does not have real food, just some snacks to go with your beer. Normally this wouldn't matter except the hotel is in sort of an isolated area, so your other options for dinner/lunch are pretty limited especially if you do not have a car. Luckily there is a Family mart nearby for necessities. We walked about 20 minutes and found a small chain restaurant and ate there. Our room appeared to look nice, however, the floor was covered in sand, and the sofa smelled bad. Luckily they had clean slippers and we just ended up sitting on our clean beds for our trip. Bathroom/shower were clean. Breakfast was very nice and there were a lot of options. It does get super crowded so make sure to go on the earlier side. An hour after opening, there was a line that went way out the door. The pool was clean. Please note that the infinity pool is limited only to guests staying in the club wing, but that was fine since the pool downstairs was nice enough. We did not visit the beachfront area, but it looked nice from our hotel room.

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