I see our crew rate at the Hilton is approx 90 US a night. Anyone have any luck getting that rate if you book it on your own (i.e. You're not on a pairing). Any other hotels with a crew rate ?

Thx

I've deviated and needed an extra night on several occasions in NRT. When they had rooms available, the Hilton has always given me the FedEx rate. I've never it done when I wasn't on a pairing, but I don't think the hotel really cares why you're there. They didn't specifically ask me if I was on a trip, but probably assumed it since I was doing it in conjunction with a scheduled stay. My guess is, the reason for your visit(if it even matters) probably won't come up. I'd definitely give it a try.

Twice I needed a room and the Hilton was full. I've used the Garden Hotel (across from the Santa hotel) and the APA hotel (just to the right of the escalators at the old bus stop). Garden room was very similar to the Hilton, the APA was the 8x8 box that barely fits the bed. I used kayak.com and/or Travelocity to find the rooms. It's also worth going directly to the hotel website to price shop. I think I ended up going with the hotel website with the APA and Travelocity with the Garden. Garden rate was very similar to the Hilton. APA was about $30 more but there was something big happening in the area at that time and every hotel (including the Hilton) was booked. Right now, Hilton is $93 and Garden is $68 via Kayak for a random night in September.

One caution to guys that are getting deviation rooms in Japan regarding the receipts the hotels use. They do not break out the taxes. It usually just shows one charge. On one of my deviations, I was checking out and received the folio for my deviation stay and signed the one for the direct billed night FedEx was covering. The two receipts were identical, which made sense since the Hilton was charging me the FedEx rate.

When I converted the rate for my expense receipt, it was considerably more than the advertised contract rate in the expense report section. I contacted crew travel and Shana confirmed that rate was correct. She explained the total I was seeing included 18.8% tax (which is valid for all NRT area hotels). She also gave me the FedEx rate in yen, so I was able to just subtract that from the total to determine what portion was tax (FWIW, taking 18.8% of the total also produced the same amount). So, you need to put that tax amount in the appropriate box in your expense report entry to avoid being charged by the company for the tax. I also included a note in the comments about the tax not being broken out on the receipt and never heard anything about it.

There's another option in NRT if you are just looking for a day room (i.e., you jumpseated in from CAN in the AM and are D/Hing out via passenger carrier in the afternoon, or vice-versa). There are a limited number of day rooms available in both Terminals 1 and 2 for 1500 yen for the first hour, and 750 yen for each subsequent. The rooms are open from 0700 to 2100. They are small, with just a bed and a small bathroom with shower, but comfortable.
The rooms in Terminal 1 are about 100 feet past the McD's we walk by before going down the escalator when operating out. The rooms in Terminal 2 are to the right of the top of the down escalator for the shuttle over to the remote terminal, and right across from and within range of the JAL first class lounge wifi.
Been using them for years, you just have to note on your expense report that the NRT Terminal receipt is for the in-terminal hotel.
Here's the link to their website for reservations:
https://www.naritaairporthotel.com/n...port-dayrooms/