Hakuba Sun Valley Hotel — Hotel in Hakuba

A traditional Japanese experience. It took me 3 days to get used to the bed on the floor, but after that my back was fine.||The hotel dinner is excellent. The breakfast is average. Our package included both as we stayed 7 nights. ||This hotel will suit people who want a quiet location close to the slopes. The nearest chair lift at Goryu Iimori is across the road, and the Goryu / Hakuba 47 mountain is in my top 3 mountains together with Cortina and Tsugaike.||Do not stay here if you want night life as there is none. You will be better off in Happo One.||The staff are extremely accommodating, and the newly renovated communal steam room is a welcome relief after a day on the mountain.||The hotel’s best selling point is its proximity to the chair lift plus the Hakuba Valley shuttle bus stop is only a 2 minute walk.||Tip - get on the shuttle bus early if travelling north to Happo, Iwatake and Cortina. You will get a seat at Goryu but it will be rammed by Echoland. The first bus from Goryu Iimori leaves at 7.39am and it will take 90 minutes to get to Cortina, which in my view is the best resort for powder and tree runs, particularly if like me, you snowboard. Coming south at the end of the day, it is a complete debacle on the HV bus if you leave it late. Best to start early in the morning and get a bus back at about 3pm. Failing that, there’s Uber and taxis.||Overall, I would stay at this hotel again as I like an early night and the chair lift is 50 metres away, but I will not be back in Hakuba anytime soon as the mountain resorts need significant investment. The snow is good but the chair lifts are old and slow. The US wins hands down. Those who say Jap powder is the best need to broaden...

Overall this place is pretty disappointing. The rooms and hotel are nothing like the photos. The manager at the counter is really good and speaks a bit of English. Same with the guys at the ski hire shop located in the building. The beds were ok besides mine having a spring sticking through the side of it. Good pillows but the quilt cover only half covers the quilt and was pretty old looking. As you walk into the building there is a ski hire shop as you get through the door. As a result from the moment you walk through the door, through the foyer until you get into the lift, all you can smell is the strong and disgusting odour of sweaty and wet boots & ski equipment. The walls / hallways aren't very sound friendly and was woken up at least once a day by people talking / yelling in the hallways late at night / early in the morning. Restaurant is terrible. ¥1000 for breakfast which was so bad we couldn't actually eat it. Only options were cold eggs, some form of sautéed vegetable and a lot of fish. The mini "onsen" or spa is gross. It stinks of mould as soon as you walk through the door and as far as I can tell is just a big bath full of normal water and not one that would be classified as an onsen. The washers and dryers are in a bad state, 2 washing machines, 1 was broken, 2 dryers, 1 was broken. Then half of the other vending machines were broken too. The "gift shop" was barely stocked with anything besides a few boxes of cookies. Its straight across from the chair lift which was handy but I'd rather walk a few hundred meters or catch a bus from somewhere rather than...

There is nothing much to comment about the hotel itself. It rated as 3 star, but I doubt it is really 3 star, perhaps the most would be 2 and 1/2 star. It comprise of 2 separated building - one building is where the rooms are and another building is where the restaurant and some small souvenir and tourism info counter. The room is rather quite spacious. There are room with ordinary beds setting and there also japanese bedding style rooms(meaning that a mattress on the floor). The amenities available in the room was rather modest. Don't expect a full satellite TV channel, all local broadcast channels and all in japanese, but than again, one going to Hakuba, not to stay in the room but for it's surrounding and enjoying the snow and ski.||Despite those short coming, a stay in Sunvalley was a memorable one. Mainly because of their staffs, especially the chef and the manager. We were personally been entertained by them and they went extra mile to help us to find our way to enjoy staying in Hakuba. Really appreciated their courtesy and hospitality.||For muslim, finding a place which offer a halal meal in Japan, furthermore in a district like Hakuba, is not an easy task, but Sunvalley is really a place to stay for muslim, it offer a halal meal (with prearrangement). We stay there for 2 nites and were able to experience halal japanese meal - ramen etc and it is really recommendable.||Location is also an extra point for the hotel. It is situated fronting the IImori Ski centre and Hakuba 47 is just 10-15...