Resort Inn North Country

Convenient location near ski resorts and hot springs. Praise for cleanliness, service, and spacious rooms. Guests appreciate the friendly staff and delicious buffet breakfast with a beautiful view.

Stay 4 nights for skiing at Furano. It relies completely on shuttle bus to & from the 2 Furano ski areas -- not too frequent & there's only 1 service to the Kitanomine Zone. There's also just 1 shuttle service to/from Furano town center and it requires 1 day advance booking! Most frontline staffs are not Japanese, probably Philippinos? They speak good English (naturally) as well as Japanese (need to be). They are polite enough, but, I guess, due to a lot of restrictions from the hotel policies, many of the guests' requests are not entertained. Room is spacious, but the room heating (with the only working air-con unit in room) requires some tweaking to make the room warm enough for sleeping. Public onsen is small, we once met 6~7 big guys in the small onsen bath in which we had to sit shoulder-to-shoulder in two opposite rows and not move. We rented ski equipment from the hotel (it's cheap compared to that from the Furano Ski Resort/ Prince Hotel rental), for convenience to put on everything before shuttling to the ski area. The equipment is aged. The staff who helped us fit the gears first day was not knowledgeable enough to pick the right boots & skies with right length. After one day of struggling (my wife got her feet hurt w/ pain on her toes), we switched gears the 2nd day. Another man (who's more knowledgeable) helped us fit our boots and changed my wife's & my skies to shorter ones. The skies for my kid was also not properly set, it's too tight for his boots to click-in. He managed to click-onto the skies with my help the first 2 days; but on the 3rd day, we couldn't any more while in front of the chair lifts. Fortunately, we went into the (Prince Hotel) ski rental outlet to ask for help, those professional guys in there helped us adjusted the bindings on his skies to fit his boots well. Lastly, we booked with breakfast & dinner included. We found very few people took the dinner there. It's a small buffet (same every day) with rotating main dishes (e.g. fondue, shabu shabu, etc.) every 3 nights. Not sure if I had too much of those fatty cheap meat, I had diarrhea the last evening before my departure. It took me 2~3 days to fully recover!

Nice stay at the hotel, close to the Ningle Terrace, big parking spots for free for car, affordable stay!