The rooms are affordable, new, clean and comfortable, and even provide L’Occitane-branded shower gels and shampoos. The Hotel Manager is super helpful and courteous, and her philosophy of providing as much as possible to her customers at a better price is truly heartwarming to experience.
The hotel is situated on Middle Road, which is a slight distance from the nearest restaurants and Garapan’s CBD (DFS is 800m away by foot), but there is a 24hr supermarket 200m away. The location is convenient for transportation as it’s on the main thoroughfare road, and very easy to access for both tour groups, or even driving and renting a car as they have parking facilities. We went to 3 different group activities during this time: A tour of the North, a day of scuba diving at Lau Lau, and a day of parasailing and snorkeling at Managaha Island, and this was an ideal location for pick-up/drop offs for group activities.
Saipan had been badly affected by a typhoon prior to our stay, and the effects and remnants are still felt everywhere. As such, it’s hard to hire staff, and the restaurant and spa facilities here were both closed. The TV channels were all unavailable, but that didn’t impact us as we brought our Apple TV and streamed our favorite shows and live NBA games. The broadband did disconnect from time-to-time on our devices, but that didn’t impact our experience. It doesn’t have a lift, which is the only real inconvenience.