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I won’t lie, I love staying in hotel rooms.
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It makes me feel like some kind of successful businessman who’s really made it in life.
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But unfortunately, the reality is somewhat different.
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The fact all my worldly possessions are stuffed into two bags, over by that table,
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And my glamorous hotel view consists of a roof,
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covered in a never-ending sea of air conditioning units, certainly does take some of the magic away from it all.
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And instead of making business deals worth millions,
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I’ve sat here for 25 minutes now, pondering a difficult decision I faced over last nights dinner.
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I was at this cheap sushi restaurant and after the main meal there were two desserts that caught my eye.
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A pudding and a premium pudding.
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The trouble was the prices, the pictures and the descriptions made, didn’t really make any sense.
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Because the picture of the mere pudding looked marginally better than the picture of the premium pudding,
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despite having the same price.
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And I just didn’t know what to do.
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Maybe the pictures were the wrong way round or maybe in Japan,
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premium puddings just don’t come with cream. I don’t know - I’m not a Japanese pudding expert,
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by any measure
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In the end I couldn’t decide so I just went with the mousse of a mango.
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But it certainly was one of the the greatest dilemmas I’ve faced in 2016 so far.
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Anyway, I am in a hotel. And I figured I need a break from counting air condition units just for a little bit.
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So I figured I’d show you around a standard hotel room and see what we can find.
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Maybe I can actually do some exercise in the process its at least… 10 meters to that doorway.
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So, yeah, let’s go. Let’s go to the door way.
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So…this is the doorway. Now you’re probably wondering why I chose this hotel.
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And its about 6,500yen a night which is what you pay for a room this size in Japan.
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Although this room is a little bit bigger which is a bonus.
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But the real reason I chose it was the name.
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Because the name is, the Hotel Bel Air.
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And I saw that and I felt very nostalgic about my very sitcom of the 90’s;
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the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
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With the notable exception of the Simpsons, series 1 - 8, before they gave up writing episodes that were good.
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You’ll notice there’s a few items here. We have a shoe brush, some slippers, shoe polish.
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What appears to be…half a propeller.
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I don’t know where the other half is, I don’t know why that’s there quite frankly.
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Now there’s a spray here and you’re probably wondering what that is…
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And so am I because I don’t actually know what it is.
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Room, clothing, tobacco…its like an air freshener.
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It’s a deodorant spray of an effective professional specification the the anxious smell.
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Is it now.
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Well, I suppose this sock might fit that description so..
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Oh god.
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It smells dreadful. Its like hairspray.
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It’s horrible.
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If you come to Japan don’t use this, this treacherous spray.
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Stumbling into the bathroom, first thing you’ll notice is the toilet sent from the future to spray us from behind.
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You can change the pressure here.
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So that’s nice. It’s got a seat warmer. Yeah it’s a nice toilet.
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And here’s the bit we all get excited about - the free stuff.
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So you’ve got your soap… comb, toothbrush, cotton buds.
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Body sponge. It’s a bit small though.
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As soon as you open the package the sponge will swell.
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Will it now?
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Well it certainly did. I look forward to having fun with that later.
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Before we move on, you’ll notice here it says Toto,
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which is of course an amazing band from the 1980’s behind hits like Africa and Hold the Line.
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But following on from their success they diversified into integrated toilet solutions.
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So when you lift this up…
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It’s a standard feature and I think that’s fantastic.
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So we’re back in the room.
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And let’s take a look at the bed. Nice size here.
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This is a standard feature in most Japanese hotel rooms.
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It’s a lightsaber.
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Just in case you have to go out in the middle of the night
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and face any combat situations on the way to the convenience store.
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Buttons for lights. Look at that.
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You don’t even have to get out of bed. And I really like that.
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This is the future of lights. Just like there next to your bed.
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This is a light…remote control. So…you can press here and…it goes white.
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You can press here…it goes warm.
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This is really weird and trippy if you play around with it.
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White…
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orange.
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I’m going to have so much fun in bed later… I’ll put that there.
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So let’s move over here. This is the desk area. Very nice as you can see.
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One thing that comes in most Japanese hotels is massages.
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For 30 minutes and 2,700 yen you can get a nice body relaxation message.
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Or for 2,160 yen a foot massage.
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I won’t be doing that - I am just a humble Youtuber. I can’t afford such frivolous, luxurious experiences.
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Nice little note pad here with your to-do list on. Hotel Bel Air note pad. Standard. And a lamp.
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Draw. In here what have we got. Let’s see what we’ve got in the draw.
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In the draw we have…a multi-use bag. You can use that for…just so many things.
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And then we’ve got a book. New Testament.
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It looks really good, I don’t know what that’s about. I’ll have to read that later.
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A little guidebook for north Japan.
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It’s got lots of cool places you can see and food you can eat.
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Pretty cool. Pretty handy.
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Coming down here there’s a cupboard with…tea.
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Check it out.
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Good taste, refined fragrance.
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Japanese green tea is quite nice. And we’ve got a kettle under there, for that tea
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There’s a fridge here. Switch that on there.
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Let’s have a look.
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Nothing in here except…one…no two…two hairs. So that’s good, you can enjoy here.
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So television. Let’s check out some tv.
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Oh my god, make it stop.
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Some singing snowmen there, if you’re into that.
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So that’s Japanese tv.
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And there you go. There is your standard Japanese hotel room.
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So that was a tour of the hotel room.
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It was a bit weird wasn’t it. But that’s to be expected, when you’re alone in a hotel room.
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I…er…oh. I can’t even look outside now.
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It’s dark now, so I can’t enjoy the air conditioning units.
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Still…I know how to have fun.
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So I’ll see you next time. Take care.
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Oh. Its gone orange.
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It’s gone white now…
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Look at my kingdom I was finally there… sit on my throne as the prince of Bel Air.
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Ah no.