I had read some terrible reviews about this property before I stayed there, so I was a bit nervous about it...but was pleasantly surprised when I arrived.

The hotel is quite close to the Hiroshima Train Station...only about a 5 minute walk on foot. The problem was, when we exited out of the train station, we didn't know which direction to go towards (even tho we had a map). We must have asked about 10 people where the bridge was (the bridge you have to cross to get to the hotel), and no one seemed sure which bridge we were referring to...even when we showed them the map they could'n't really help us.

We were asked to prepay for our 2 nights stay when we checked in.

When we got into our rooms, we found them to be larger than expected (based on some of the previous reviews I had read). Hoewver, once we put our suitcases down, we realized why people thought the rooms were so small.

The bathroom was also very tiny, with barely enough space to fit even one person in there.

We had a room with a great view of the little lake outside our hotel. The location wasn't bad...very close to subway & bus stations. 20 minute walk to Hondori St. 30 minute walk to Peace Museum and A-Bomb Dome. 10 min walk to the Shukkeien Garden.

I would stay there again.

The hotel is a short walk from the main rail station which is a bonus but the wall sign is so small that it was a nightmare trying to find it. You'd be ok at night though as the neon sign on the roof is plenty large enough.

The room has to be the smallest double I have ever encountered. The only place to sit down in the room (apart from a tiny cushion with legs, oh I mean chair) was on the side of the bed. As a result the mattress was wrecked and provided us with a nights sleep like something out of the princess and the pea fairy tale - except that instead of a pea it was several springs in your back.

The was no restuarant facilities on a grotty little caravan outside with a microwave.

There wasn't much in the way of 'free' goodies in the bathroom either.

Tiny rooms at Hotel Flex, but a good location. We had a minor slip up after we dropped our bags off in the morning - they couldn't find them when we returned in the evening! Luckily they were just placed in the wrong room. A simple, but potentially awful mistake. Anyway, it was a good hotel for one night. Also if you're sensitive to smoke, then request a non-smoking room if they have them. Ours was pretty stinky.

We stayed here while visiting Hiroshima and Miyajima on our vacation to Japan for one night.

Hotel Flex is definitely a business hotel, but it was the one with the smallest double room we stayed in our entire trip. We stayed in a riverside view room, which was quite nice. We had wished for Internet in the room, but was only to use a terminal in the lobby.

The location is definitely not central, but it's within walking distance of being central to the busy shopping/restaurant areas of town. It's about 1 km walk to the Peace Park, which isn't bad at all; and is really close to the street car which also takes you out there. It's also very close to the train station -- about a 5 min walk.

The price was definitely it's best selling point -- very affordable. And you can book through an English language web site.