Review: Hotel Villa Fontaine Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND)

This is a great airport hotel. The onsen alone is worth the price of admission. If I’m ever transiting through Haneda in the future, I’ll lengthen my stopover and stay here longer. Absolutely loved it!

Haneda Airport garden including the hotel was completed and supposed to open in April 2020, but the opening was postponed because of COVID. Some part of the hotel was used as a quarantine facility during COVID days. Maybe that is why you felt the hotel is already showing its age.

T2 also has international flights as our HND-JFK flight on ANA is departing from there next month.

I had no problem bypassing the kiosks and going straight for the desk. Granted, it was very late at night. And I was checking in to the “Premier” side of the hotel. Which I think had a different desk?

Maybe I missed something, but do you need to clear immigration to access this hotel?

Yes. The hotel is landside, as part of the Haneda Airport Garden section. It's technically a separate building from T3 itself, connected by a walkway from the arrivals area/train station.

Agree with Andre. Personally, while I get Ben's raised eyebrows, the little quirky things is what makes Japanese hotels so much fun to stay at.
I know that a lot of traveler's enjoy the fact that most hotels in the world feel very "global" (i.e. American) but I like the cuteness of the Japanese institutions keeping their own flavour.
Note to Ben and other readers: in many cases, when a Japanese person acts surprised (like with the foreign credit card), it is not because they are dumb or never seen this before. It's a very elegant way of not saying their system is not great, while also not suggesting the customer should know better. It's a common expression in Japan, and again, what makes it so special

Stayed here very recently. Onsen was the best bit! To have a proper bed, plus onsen, then wake up refreshed and back on the plane (via JAL first lounge...) was the best decision I made doing JFK > SIN

Also a great sushi restaurant in the basement where there are various shops and restaurants.

Yea this is a perfectly fine airport hotel for when you want to be close to Haneda T3. Worked out well on my last trip.

Just checked out of the Grand side and had the same no foreign cards at the kiosk experience. That said, agree with most of the comments. Disappointed to find most eateries closed at 9PM. As Japanese hotels go, particularly in Tokyo, the rooms are typically small, but immaculate. The Onsen is gigantic to accommodate the volume of guests, but has lots of options AND a 24 hr restaurant. We stay here every time we depart Tokyo on a morning flight; vastly superior to airport hotels not attached to terminal. OTAs have better rates, and since there’s no loyalty program, we use them.

This is the norm nowadays for wifi code on TV at all major Japanese business hotel chains

I stayed in the Grand last June. I think I had a regular room but I requested a room with river view and it had a proper bathroom. This October I’m staying in the Premier to give it a go. The extra cost was covered by some cc hotel rebate.

The Onsen was delightful especially at 5 am. Empty with fresh air soaking pools.

We stayed at the premiere part last year and loved it. No check-in kiosk, straight to a desk with a person. The room was super comfy and wasn't showing any signs of age. The lobby was so much more peaceful that the grand side appeared to be. The restaurants closing early was a surprise though! Pricier, yes. But worth it!

I used the onsen twice last year when I stayed, and when I was on transit. I would say that the onsen is overpriced if you are not staying, but otherwise a nice onsen.

The reality is you are spoiled for choice when it comes to hotels at Haneda. There are 4 landside attached hotels (2 for T3, 2 for T1/T2), and 1 airside hotel (operated by 1 of those landside hotels).

If you have a bit more time on a layover, say a few hours before you have to go to bed, I really recommend heading to Kamata (you can get there on the Keikyu line) and staying there. A lot better prices than at Haneda. There's also hotels that are 1/2 stops away, such as at Tenkubashi that will cost half the amount of the attached hotels, so I don't think the attached hotels are vastly superior in terms of convenience.

Also! A key thing to know: early check-in or late check-out will cost you extra, calculated by the hour. They are not flexible on this - this is how business hotels work in Japan, and you might be surprised to experience this, especially at an airport hotel with so many rooms.

"When I first walked into the room, I was confused, because I saw a curtain along the far wall of the room. I wondered where the bathroom was, since my assumption was that there was a window behind the curtain. Well, no, that curtain actually separates the bedroom from the bathroom, as there’s otherwise just a glass shield between the rooms."

lol.. this was the same experience I had when I arrived after a late TPAC from the US. My first thought was 'where's the bathroom? I need to go'

Also same experience with the check in kiosks. It wouldn't take my CSP.

Those kiosks do not accept my AMEX card and having learned that a few months ago, I now proceed directly to the check in counter and when they insist I try the kiosk first I advise them that my card does not work with the kiosk. How very annoying of the agent to ask you to try another card. Really? The mall shopping area opens at 10a and closes at 8p. The eateries one level below seem to be open until or maybe a little passed 9p based on my layover there last week. I've stayed at the Grand side and it suits my needs. The rooms closer to the elevators are bigger than the rooms you reported on, but even the room you're in is fine.

I was booked to stay here before an early morning flight to Sydney and very much looking forward to the onsen before the flight. Very disappointingly schedule changes meant I had to switch to a PM flight ex-NRT instead.
Still going to a nearby onsen before the flight, but by golly I'm looking forward to the convenience of Villa Fontaine Haneda next time I do have a flight ex-HND