We stayed for 8 nights at the Wbf. We requested a quiet upper floor room. We were assigned a 14th top floor room that is 2 doors away from the elevator, and enroute to the women & men's public bath house and the free beverage room. The moment you leave the lobby, esp. in the summer, you go into an oven. The rooms are located in open motel type corridor with no air conditioning. What is worst, when it rained hard, the carpet of the corridor gets extremely damp. Wbf is a good 20 minutes walk from Hakata station. Adding the walk within that hugh station, you are walking 30 minutes one way and an hour round trip for transportation each time. During the hot summer, with 95 plus degrees temperature, hot corridor and time to slowly cool off your room after plugging in your key, it is not ideal for Westerners who are used to driving in an air conditioned car most of the time. If we went out twice, we would have spent close to 2 hours just being able to get to the right train & back. We will definitely look for a hotel closer to Hakata station since we ate most of our meals there. Some staff friendly and helpful, but on 2 occasions, 2 were unfriendly and did not want to help much. Wbf book lots of short term (1-3 days) group tourist so often here will be 20 tourist with luggage surrounding the lobby, not the best environment! The rather expensive breakfast with steak was not worth the money because at 8:30 am we could tell the steak had been sitting there a while. Not coming back!
