Quick Okinawa update

We travelled for most of the day yesterday from Sapporo to Nagoya to Okinawa. Now if anyone ever looks at my status updates on facebook you'll know we're not really impressed with the area we're in. Well the bus ride from the airport took two hours for one thing, and then we realised when we arrived in the area of our hotel (appartment room actually) that the place we're in is full of American army bases. We had no idea :( It took us 5 minutes to understand what the taxi driver was saying (NO BASE! NO BASE! AMERICAJIN? NO BASE!) and then a bit longer for him to understand we were English tourists.
So here we are in the most awfully decorated room complete with plastic flowers and yellow net curtains. Also the bathroom seems to be in a conservatory (at first we thought it was on the balcony) and there is no shower curtain and no hot water. I had to crouch in the bath to have my cold shower this morning. We are right next to the sea, but there isn't any sand, just these big jumping jack type concrete blocks.

So, we've booked a hotel near the airport! It will definately not be as loud as it is here since here they keep training in the planes overhead and the planes they're using are REALLY loud!! They do this it seems from around 11am to 9pm. The only stretch of good beach is cordoned off with metal fencing as it is just in front of where the army planes land.
The new hotel is very close to the main city, so we're hoping things will look up.