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Mineral water bottles featuring the face of the ‘APA President’ will no longer be placed in guest rooms at the ‘APA Hotel & Resort
Dedicated pitchers and glasses will be provided in all guest rooms, and hot and cold water dispensers will be installed in the elevator halls on each floor. It is said to be an environmentally friendly initiative, and it has not yet been decided whether this will be implemented in all hotels.
Since December 2011, APA Hotel distributed the official mineral water ‘Fujikawa Headwaters Natural Water,’ which featured the APA Hotel logo and a photo of APA President Fumiko Motoya, only for consecutive night stays. However, following a service revision in April 2022, it became ‘Welcome Water’ available in all rooms. It has since been replaced with ‘Oyama Mountain Foothills Natural Water.’
The ‘Fujikawa Headwaters Natural Water’ featured a large, youthful image of the ‘APA President’ on one full side of the square bottle, but ‘Oyama Mountain Foothills Natural Water’ has reduced the image to about one quarter of its original size, slightly reducing the pressure it imposes on consumers. As a result, the only ‘APA President’ in sight within the guest rooms would be the one on the cover of her own book published in December 2017, ‘Good Luck: Practical Methods to Turn a Pinch into a Chance.’
Additionally, at the ‘APA Hotel & Resort
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