Hoshino Resorts Kai Tsugaru Reviews

Very beautiful clean hotel with great apple onsen bath! Excellent dinner and breakfast. Shamisen performance was entertaining too. We enjoyed staying here!

Excellent

The location is a bit far away, there is nothing nearby, the environment is shabby, and it's a bit old, so the price is not too bad!

The hotel environment and landscaping are beautiful. The hotel rooms are spacious and comfortable and better than the photos show. The service in the hotel is very good, and the food is also good. In terms of transportation, although there are few JR trains at Yoshinori Onsen, the JR station is very cozy, with heating equipment, a footbath outside the station, and you can also visit the hot spring town, so the waiting process is not boring. At that time, I booked a hotel pick-up bus through Ctrip at 3:10 pm, but actually the hotel picked me up at 2:30. The most distinctive features of Kaitsugaru are the Apple Hot Spring and the outdoor snow bath.

The service attitude of Hoshino Hotel really makes people feel at home, the environment is quiet, and the meals are exquisite and pleasing to the eye. Each dish fully demonstrates the characteristics of local agricultural products. Apple bathing is a specialty of Aomori Kairutsu, and there is a faint aroma of apples when soaking! A great place for a relaxing slow swim.

The service is good, the food is delicious, and there is nothing else besides the hot springs.

Very satisfied with the overall experience. The staff are friendly and caring. After the meal, there was a Karutsu Shamisen performance, which is worth praising. Only the open-air hot spring is a little smaller than expected, and the indoor hot spring contains Aomori apples.

You can see the scenery from the room, and the service personnel have a high quality of service. When you check in, you will introduce all the service facilities. The scenery inside the hotel is also very exquisitely designed, and there are local traditional music performances. The soup is very good, and you can drink apple juice when you are tired. There are also apple cider vinegar and kudzu root water available before entering the hot spring. In autumn, you can also see maple leaves in the hot spring. It is a very worthwhile experience.

The third Hoshino I booked this time finally sat down and checked in. There is still no welcome drink. The Tsugaru store is an old Jiuquan hotel. It has a taste. You can see the glory of the past. The elegant and exquisite Japanese-style room has a high-quality food service. It is also like a local music. It looks like Tsugaru shamisen show Hoshino’s Anpin Poroto. These two stores are express hotels. The room facilities are not even as good as Samsung Tokyu’s. I am extremely disappointed. The tatami mats are all stinky. Tsugaru’s bedding is better. Hoshino only has a pot of bulk water as a spare. I think it’s a teapot. The tea is very simple. There is no only American hair dryer. I bought it in China several years ago. Now living in New Chitose, the quality of Patom towels, yukata and bath products are blown out. The price of Hoshino series is still low. This time, I am disappointed with the quality of Hoshino in all aspects. Much uglier than the original

It is a weaker hotel in the Hoshino Resorts series, but it is not difficult to see that it is "extreme". The scenery of the open-air hot springs, the decorated lanterns, and the shamisen performance were all done at their best, especially seeing their understanding of Zhao Yun from "Three Kingdoms"🌹Explanation of the types of hot springs🌹Drinking apples🍎juice...unforgettable

Very good and will recommend it to friends

We loved the place and the food. In addition, the breif shamisen concert after dinner was the best experience ever in Japanese hotels.

We thoroughly enjoyed our one night stay here. Our room was spacious, with a lovely view into the trees. Our beds are very comfortable and the bathroom, very well appointed. Both the dinner and breakfast had a great selection of delicious Japanese delicacies and the service from the staff in the restaurant was wonderful, The ladies bath area was a delight, so unusual to have lots and lots of apples floating in the water, a very novel experience.

I'm not sure what Hoshino Resorts Kai Tsugaru wants to be. Is it a hotel or a ryokan? Is it luxury or not? The answers to both questions are a bit complicated for a variety of reasons. While there is no solid definition of a high-end hotel or ryokan, generally speaking, they often differ in the following ways: Top ryokans: - Smaller, more intimate establishment with a small number of rooms (typically 30 or less.) - More intimate, personalized service - Shoes come off upon entering the property - For Onsen ryokans, they provide yukata clothing to wear while on property - More inflexible meal times (you can't simply choose exactly what time to make a reservation or when to show up.) - Half-board - Lacks full-service amenities of larger luxury hotels like gym, pool and laundry service - Top quality onsen, with some rooms even having private onsens. Top luxury hotels: - Larger footprint and more rooms - Slightly more impersonal service (understandable, since it's usually larger) - Shoes stay on - Meals are often optional - More flexible meal times - Has more on-property amenities such as gym, pool, business center, laundry service, etc. Unfortunately, in many ways Kai Tsugaru is a bit of a cop-out. It represents itself as a ryokan, but takes the worst aspects of both hotels and ryokans which left us confused as to exactly what it was. For starters, it's a rather large property at over 40 rooms. This, combined with the fact that it's owned and operated by the Hoshino group, would lead one to believe that it would offer the intimacy of a ryokan but with the convenience of a hotel. It did not. There is no full-time greeter/handler outside the property, with the exception of the second afternoon, when a young lady was waiting outside with a clipboard in hand - she was clearly expecting a guest to arrive and check in. Sorry, but just having people outside during check-in hours is not acceptable in my book (we arrived about an hour earlier than the standard check-in time, but no matter.) Each time we left the property or returned from an outing, the outside entrance was barren with no soul in sight. Even when entering, nobody was hanging out in the lobby area to greet us. The staff are strictly behind the front desk counter in a way that is much more reminiscent of a hotel - it left us cold. And when we were checking in, there were no welcome drinks or snacks, either at the counter or delivered to our room by a room attendant. And therein lies the service problem. Nothing about the service is personalized or intimate. In a ryokan, they often have room attendants assigned to you, and they come to your room shortly after checking in and deliver treats and tea. And, at some place, they will come to your room to escort you to the dining area when it's time for your meal (or, better yet, they bring the food to you.) Not one aspect of their service gave any indication that Kai Tsugaru was trying to be a luxury ryokan. Secondly, the meal times are very rig