Henn na Hotel Kansai Airport

This is a generally standard business hotel that is spiced up by a couple of novelties: one, you are most likely not going to encounter any humans from the hotel on your stay. At the reception, it is self check-in, guided by a couple of animatronic dinosaurs -- this could be disconcerting for adults, but highly amusing for kids. Two, your hotel room has a resident chatty pocket bot (if you've ever seen James May's Japan tour, you'll know what this is). It is cute. It is also annoying. The first thing I did was to switch it off. At any rate, the room is decent, with standard business-hotel fiberglass bathroom with tub, pajamas, and direct access to the next building's onsen facilities. There are a couple of vendo machines which may be useful considering that the hotel is a bit of a walk away.

The location is great, 12 minutes walking distance to Rinku Town station and premier outlet. Many restaurants around premier outlet. onsen is good.

A great location for KIX and we stayed the night before our early morning flight. The dinosaur front staff is bonkers (and a bit creepy to say the least and my daughter was freaked out by them) but it was amusing to say the least. The room was spacious, clean and nice loungewear given which you can wear to the bath and the restaurant. The Onsen bath is amazing and we enjoyed it once in the evening and also the first thing in the morning before we left as we wanted to see the amazing view from the outside bath. The relaxation area was also nice (and was practically empty!) and the restaurant offered pretty decent Japanese food and the breakfast was also good. Apart from a few vending machines, there is no shop to get any snacks in the hotel but a huge drug store (cash only!) is a short walking distance and inside the Rinku Town station, there are a few shops (including a Lawson convenience store).

My room had everything I needed to get some rest before my flight in the morning. The automated Raptors at the front desk were definitely interesting. I also enjoyed the Sauna/ bath house in the hotel.

I booked this hotel purely on location and price knowing little of what to expect.There were a few surprises.... 1) Robot dinosaur reception-bizarre but worked efficiently 2) Cinema type projector in room.Kids loved the movie like experience. 3) The food "supervised by one star Michelin restaurant" was fantastic in the evening.Well priced and warm service as well 4) The onsen experience.Attached to the hotel is an excellent spa with natural spring water hot baths and mineral steam room.All free to guests although be aware that clothing is not allowed-only a towel!!! The room (which was all I was expecting) was clean comfortable and quiet. A great end to our holiday.