Hotel berhampiran Watanabe Experience Farm, Teshikaga

選擇這家酒店，一是有單人價，對獨行俠友好，二是酒店衹有60間房，比大酒店更合我意，第三，可以充實攜程的點評，下單之前，衹有一條。絕大多數日本酒店住過之後的感覺是錢，花的值，這家也不例外。接駁很方便，從網走到川湯温泉，下車後坐bus到終點，就看見忍冬兩字了。公區比房間做得好，房間非常一般，就是把榻榻米升高變成床而已， 連個牀頭櫃都沒有的，坐便器的説明居然拼錯，打破了日本人非常在意細節的刻板印象。自助餐的蝦刺身品質極高，糯糯甜甜，早晚餐都能吃到，爽歪歪。如果你是一人獨行，喜歡刺身，喜歡海鮮，時間充裕的話，可以沖，不會後悔的。

小学1年生連れの家族3人で宿泊しました。 別邸忍冬の和洋室です。 玄関に到着して車のドアを開けた途端、濃い硫黄の匂いにびっくりしました。 すぐ脇に温泉の川が流れていて、到着時から期待が膨らみます。 実際の温泉に飛び込むと、その濃厚な湯にびっくり。大浴場や露天風呂は比較的小さいものの、お湯の良さは抜群でした。 お部屋は家族連れでも十分な広さ。 そしてお食事がとにかく美味しかった。夕食も朝食もブッフェでしたが、1泊では食べきれないくらい、美味しい料理がたくさん。何泊もして色々食べつくしたくなりました。 そして、スタッフの方々の接客もとても温かくて心地よかったです。 特に子供は、売店の奥で鹿の角の細工をしていらっしゃる女性の方にとても優しくして頂いて、いい思い出になりました。

第一に、まず夕食、朝食のビュッフェが最高に美味しく、凝っているし料理の種類も多い。サービスも良い。清潔。これだけの料理を準備するのも大変でスタッフの意気込みを感じる。　尚、夕食はビュッフェではなく、ステーキ膳を注文したが、オーダーしてから焼き始めるこだわりもあり、肉の素材もよく、美味しいステーキだった。ご飯に賛否両論だろうが、都会の私にはぱさついたようだが、北海道地元では好まれている米、ご飯であると後から知った。　ホテルからの景観も良い。フロントも親切で、宿泊客からの細かな要望にも対応してくれる。　大浴場は、非常に広いということはないが、清潔で快適。部屋の天井が高い。室内に道東の地図が掲示されているのも気配り細かい。　尚、リゾート型のため、ベルボーイは居らず、カートを貸してくれる。　立地な気分で「オレは客だ」の人には不向き。自分達で楽しめる、という人向け。家族、カップル、色々なグループに向いている。　尚、屈斜路湖の湖岸にあり、ホテルの外に行っても一番近いレストランは車で３０分はかかる。　食事はビュッフェ利用が現実的。　尚、朝のビュッフェは献立編成にA、Bの二種類あり、連泊しても飽きない工夫されている。

We stayed for 2 nights and chose this resort for the wildlife. The checkin was efficient and they had English speaking staff. The room assigned was a Japanese style room with a sleeping n living area and lots of space for everything. The staff were friendly and helpful. The dinner meals were individually set for each room at the restaurant. The breakfast was a buffet and had many choices. While you had your meal you can enjoy the bird feeding session. We stay awake while waiting for the fish owl which appear about twice in the evening and early morning. We had to use the Onsen at 2am, just to keep ourselves awake during our wait. For the 2 days, we did not venture out of the lodge as we slept in the day and stay awake at night for the owl. There is ample carpark, coin operated laundry machine and lots of free coffee at the lobby.

EXCELLENT hotel. Has a minimalist luxury façade the moment your car pulls into the entrance driveway. Staff are friendly and accomodating from the start. The lobby is gorgeous with a view of a section of the Akan river. The onsen is great too. We were BLOWN AWAY by the dinner and breakfast food in terms of taste, variety, presentation and styling. The servers did not speak much English but they were trying their best and were very friendly! We are so sorry we do not really speak Japanese. We had a room with a view of the river. Several deer were just outside the window. Beautiful aura of the place. 10/10 recommend. Wish we had 1 more night :) The room itself BLEW us away! It's small but thoughtfully designed, great for bird watching. Absolutely loved the room!!!!

We chose a lake view room for a night while driving around north east Hokkaido. The lobby gets crowded during checkin with many local visitors. The room and bathroom are small but acceptable since we have stayed in similar Japanese size rooms before. The breakfast n dinner buffet are acceptable. Guests are given a timing to choose their meal times. This helps with crowd control. The hotel charges for overnight parking and upon checkout, guests have to take a shuttle to about 1.5km away to retrieve their car. In the evening 8pm, we saw fireworks from our room. Excellent.

I booked a room at this hotel through Bookings.com, where rooms at their so-called 'Crystal Wing' were the only ones offered. The room cost me 28,000 yen a night but I decided to fork out the exorbitant price for a nice resort by the lake. However, as it turned out, the 'Crystal Wing' is actually an annex. It is originally a different hotel called the Crystal Hotel, which was acquired by the Hotel New Akan next door. The lobby and restaurant of this 'annex' were closed, so we assumed that only the rooms were used to accommodate guests. I don't have problems with annex rooms in other hotels, but for this one, I do. The Crystal Wing is so shabby and run down. The hallways are musty and smelly. It has its own small elevator with buttons so dirty that you don't want to put your finger on. The room looks like it does in the website picture. It looks clean. What is unseen though is the stale musty air! It was so awful to be breathing in the room. The windows cannot be opened, so you are forced to inhale the stale air from the old central AC. It’s really ironic because the fresh mountain air is just outside. What's worse is that the room smells of cigarettes even when it is supposed to be a non-smoking room. Also, the door does not close properly and has to be slammed to shut. The bed is reasonably comfortable, but the sheets do not have the scent of freshly laundered linen, and neither were the yukatas. This gives the impression that the room has not been used in a long time. The yukatas are so worn out, I did not feel like putting them on. The toilet, though very clean, faintly smelt of the sewer. We never saw any other guests on the same floor as us in the annex building. When we looked at the building from the outside during an evening stroll, our room was the only one lighted up. Coupled with the dark, uninhabited lower floors and the sealed-off lobby of this 'Crystal Wing', we felt like we booked a room at a ghost hotel! I complained to the hotel, but all they offered was a different room in the SAME annex building. I wrote a negative review on Bookings thinking it would help other unknowing guests. However, only positive reviews are being featured on the site. Bookings is still selling these Crystal Wing rooms on their website! (No rooms in the main building are available, so this misleads guests to think that the Crystal rooms are NOT the shabbier, older rooms in a different building) Selling these old run-down rooms in the dilapidated building next door for exorbitant prices is simply unscrupulous. Avoid these Crystal rooms at all costs if you want a good night sleep and no creepy, eerie feelings as a holiday memory!