HOSHINOYA Okinawa

Breakfast

4.00

Cleanliness

4.29

• ★★★★☆Itthi Yossundara19 August 2026

  The hotel is beautiful and the staff is great. Banta Cafe is amazing. However, The hotel is lacking certain things. Despite being a 5-star hotel, it lacks the beachfront facility where guests can relax on sun loungers under umbrellas or shades with F&B services. From each room, it would be nice to have a direct pathway to the beach. I also didn't expect that there would be so many kids. The pool was super noisy. It would be nice to have a pool for families and another pool for adults only. The ocean in front of the hotel is not swimmable as it is very shallow and it's full of rocks.

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• ★★★★☆Atish Agarwala20 July 2026

  Stayed for 1 week in mid-July, Fushi-style room. Overall very happy with the room and pricing. The rooms were very comfortable, and the property has a really nice design. Enjoyed the pool as well. All staff were very friendly and helpful. Spa services were good as well. Has good access to the beach. However, the beach itself is only good for swimming near high tide. Near low tide swimming isn't really possible. With water shoes you can wade way out into the tidal flats. This does make the low-tide view spectacular. Location was generally ok. It's a bit annoying to have to go through/around Yomitan village, and there's not much in walking distance. The area is well outside of Naha which is nice. One of my biggest complaints would be the food options. In room dining felt very overpriced relative to local restaurants. Felt similarly about the hotel restaurants so didn't really use them, save a lunch at Banta Cafe (which was nice but has a limited menu). We always went to either Yomitan or Onna for food, which wasn't a problem per se but would be much nicer to have food options on site/within walking distance. Note for English speakers: most of the staff does not speak very much English, but with mutual use of a translation device we were eventually able to get answers to our questions. The staff always made a big effort to try and understand our concerns.

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• ★★★★★Pat M23 June 2026

  My wife and I just arrived back from our honeymoon, during which we spent several days at Hoshinoya Okinawa. We had an amazing time, but have found many controversial and conflicting reviews online. Given how well we enjoyed our stay, I feel I should write a review which summarizes and adds potentially good context for anyone else looking to stay. We spent our honeymoon at Hoshinoya in mid June, at the tail-end of Okinawa's rainy season in 2026. This did impact our vacation as we were hoping to do more on the beach--we still did a lot, but it wasn't very sunny. This is not Hoshinoya's fault, so they're not losing any points for this, and it had its silver linings, but keep this in mind when booking in general. You can and should do research online about Okinawa's rainy season before setting dates, especially if you plan to do a lot of activities where you'd prefer sunnier weather. I personally love rain and feel Japan (including Okinawa) is absolutely breathtaking in the rain. Likewise, the rain kept the island relatively temperate (still warm though), so anyone sensitive to heat like my wife may find that a nice silver lining. What we loved: - The staff were very humble, kind, professional, and hardworking. The service was amazing and we felt that all around. Easily a 5/5. - The location is great, especially if you like exploring the tide pools and don't mind the short walk to a sandier beach. My wife and I love more wild beaches where you can find more fish. If you like seeing fish in the water, more wild and less manicured beaches are likely to have fish as opposed to more manicured white-sandy beaches more commonly found in western-style resorts. For us, that's a 5/5 - for others it may be a let down. Plan accordingly. - The room and facilities are well kept, clean, and very beautiful. The resort is incredibly lush and well maintained. The rooms are beautiful, minimalistic, and if you can get a top level room, have breathtaking views. For our honeymoon, the resort really helped us retreat inward and spend quality time with each other. Another 5/5. - The food was very good, although a little pricey at times. You do get what you pay for though, I'd give it a 4.5/5, but wouldn't be upset if I had to round up to a 5/5. What we didn't like: - This is a kids-friendly resort (which was mostly fine for us), but during dinner it was common for kids to be screaming at Olu Grill. Olu is very echoey, so this actually made the noise worse and sometimes inhibited our conversations. We aren't opposed to having kids around, and at many points they were very cute, but in Olu specifically this was disruptive and inappropriate. I get that this is mostly on the parents, but some ground-rules could probably have been set to prevent this given the upscale nature of the resort. I can't really think of anything we'd change, largely because I feel we aligned our expectations to the location. More specifically, this is a Japanese-style resort (albeit one that is relatively accommodating to international/western tourists). I noticed that some of the negative reviews seemed to expect a more western-style resort experience. If you are expecting a western-style resort, I would temper your expectations or look elsewhere. We loved our time here and would come back.

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