On Dec 11, 2018, my younger son and I took the Hokkaido Resort Liner (costing 4000 Yen each) from New Chitose Airport all the way to its Annupuri stop and walked in the powder snow for seven minutes to arrive here at 20:00 - the normal closing time of its restaurant. Quickly checked in Room 313 and knew that we could still have the half board dinner, I was particularly pleased. And after that, we began to enjoy the out-door onsen amid the snow.

On December 12, 2018, after the buffet breakfast from 07:00 -09:30, we learned from the warm receptionist that winter sports were just minutes of walking distance away. After challenging ourselves to pick up basic snowboarding skills from Manabu, our instructor at the School, we returned to the hotel for another Japanese full dinner so much so that I got stomach symptoms. I slept early after another open-air onsen bath surrounded by snow as my enjoyed his draft beer into the night.

On December 13, 2018, I went to have breakfast alone at 08:45 and had some deep-fried oysters. A waiter was concerned as he did not see my son and reminded me that breakfast would end by 09:30; and I hurriedly finished mine hoping to wake my son up for his breakfast but he was determined to forgo it rather than leaving the comfortable bed - he probably had a hung over. He was however in very good shape in the afternoon and could snowboard skillfully just after altogether four hours of schooling!

On December 14, 2018, I first saw the sunrise at 06:59 before we had an early and quick breakfast before checking out at 08:10. Through prior arrangement, a hotel shuttle especially for us took us to the Niseko Station so that we could take the 08:45 local bus from there, passing Kutchan-Cho all the way to Otaru (the two-hour trip costing 1470 Yen each). The receptionists worked out our departure trip earlier, making our stay here even more memorable and great value for money!