Awashima Hotel

Pour commencer, l’emplacement est incroyable. Un endroit idéal pour ce ressourcer dans la plus grande simplicité. Le personnel toujours attentifs. Avec deux mention spécial pour notre « serveur » du repas français, un senior avec un savoir faire indiscutable et un sens du partage 💜. Et un autre pour la jeune demoiselle de la réception, toujours attentive au besoin des clients et souriante! 💜 Sans compter ces deux perles rares, le chef et ses collaborateurs en cuisine sont de vrai pépite! Mais quel repas incroyables. D’une finesse et d’un goût, inoubliable. Il y a une salle magnifique où se trouve un jeu d’échec, un endroit d’évasion et de plaisir. Autour de l’hôtel la balade vers le sanctuaire est un mini « pèlerinage » pour un moment de paix. Nous reviendrons avec grand plaisir.

料理を大変美味しく頂きました。 ありがとうございました。

残念ながら、富士山🗻が見えませんでした。

This hotel has a lot of really great things going for it: - The island setting offers incredible views of Mount Fuji, Suruga Bay and the surrounding area, and you can walk the perimeter trail to see a complete 360-degree perspective of the area. There is also a steep climb to a shrine at the top of the island. - The hotel facility itself is beautifully designed with open and inviting public spaces as well as spacious guest rooms. Even the most basic rooms on the property are large with very comfortable furnishings and luxurious bathrooms - the best accommodations I had during my entire multi-week trip to Japan. The included breakfast buffet was excellent with fresh items sourced locally in a beautiful and peaceful terrace dining area overlooking the bay. - Hotel staff were extremely accommodating. I speak only basic Japanese but it was not an issue during my stay as I encountered multiple staff members with good conversational English skills and was able to use translation apps to communicate with the rest. Staff were happy to arrange boat travel back to the mainland during our stay to accommodate my party's plans and took special care to ensure that we knew about expected inclement weather, and even sent a member of staff with us to shore so they could call the boat to retrieve us when we were ready to return to the island. - An added bonus: admission to the Awashima Marine Park was free as a hotel guest. It's a smaller but enjoyable outfit with tropical fish aquariums, marine mammals, a building housing a variety of colorful frog terrariums, and more.

Honestly, it's really hard to find negatives about my stay. Outside of wishing I had more time at the hotel, my only regret is that I didn't opt to purchase the on-site dinner. After having the excellent (included!) breakfast the following morning, I wished I had paid the extra money for the dinner package in the hotel's restaurant instead of leaving the island for dinner.

Staff was wonderful, the private island is cool even if it feels somewhat neglected at times. Food was good.

The place must've once been a great resort but it feels like it hasn't been touched or updated since the early 90's. Everything feels like it's decaying, with odd bits of luxery from it's golden days still visible here and there. The rooms need a desperate update, the carpet for example is in an unbelievable state. The prices don't match the state of the place.