Hotel Terbaik di Shari dengan Spa

This is a typical ’boom & bust’ hotel, like the thousands of similar hotels you see all over Japan. It’s enormous, with lobbies, restaurands an common areas the size of airport hangars, huge rooms with separate tatami areas and massive onsens. All of which is in various stage of decay. This particular hotel is set back from the harbour, up on the hillside, presumably for tsunami reasons, which means you have to drive everywhere, to the boat tours in the harbour and the really nice little seafood shacks on the waterfront. The hotel offers, like all Japanese hotels, a myriad of ’settu’ options, all very confusing: breakfast, dinner and onsen package. Ditto with unlimited sake. Lunch and onsen and a spa treatment; don’t take any of these. The food is terrible by Japanese standards, and the gigantic restaurant is more like a East German Communist Party Headquarters canteen circa 1953 than a restaurant. You know whst I mean. Our room was huge, but with peeing wallpaper, slightly smelly damp wall-to-wall carpeting and (my pet hate) one of those pre-fab plastic bathrooms which has all the solidity of a bouncy castle. Our friends stayed at the Kitanokobushi Shiretoko Hotel, and I wish we had too. This is actually built this millennium and is right on the water. I highly recommend you stay there instead. As for me, I am thoroughly fed up with these depressing, smelly 1980’s concrete monsters.

I wanted a place where I could get away from it all and this was certainly it. The rooms was cozy, the staff were amazingly friendly and accommodating, and the food was the best I've ever had at any hotel in the world. The view from my room was of the ocean and there are lots of day activities to do. I would recommend staying there with a car. Wonderful and warm.

お部屋はスーツケースが広げられるスペースがあり、きれいに清掃されていました。 温泉のお湯も良く、露天風呂で感じる海の風も気持ちのよいものでした。 食事は、一般的なビジネスタイプのホテルによくあるメニューに加え、海産系のものもありました。確かにホームページの紹介写真ほどの豪華さはありませんが、今できる精一杯でのおもてなしだと感じました。 フロントや食事のスタッフさんも、最小限の人数で行っているようでしたが、チェックインとアウトの手続き、またフロントに質問をしに行った時も丁寧かつ親切に対応してくださいました。 知床自体ホテルのお値段が高めですので、こちらで比較的リーズナブルに滞在できたと思います。 ホテルで楽しむというよりは観光拠点のひとつと考えると、道の駅も観光船の事務所も、コンビニ、コインランドリー、オロンコ岩、ゴジラ岩などが近く、非常に便利な立地です。 温泉、観光とも、知床はとてもよいところですので、また活気あふれるようになるまでぜひ頑張って欲しいと思います。