Shiga Palace Hotel

Shiga Palace is in a good location at the Southern end of Shiga Kogen. Staff are friendly and was sad to hear Zen (Zen had excellent English) doesn’t work here anymore.

The springs (western style bed) in the mattress’s have collapsed completely and instead of replacing them, they have place a thin 2inch foam mattress on top!! Enough said…

Staff very nice

Cleanes

- Staff were extremely friendly, patient and willing to offer help. - Rooms were spacious and kept clean. They even left small daily snacks (biscuits - if you liked it you can purchase it at their convenience store on the first floor) - Ski lockers were big and spacious, we could leave our ski googles and gear on the wooden racks in our locker. - Breakfast was simple but enough for us and had the home-cooked feel - Though we were only about 3-4 mins walk from the ski lift, the accommodation provided free shuttle there (wouldn't be easy to walk carrying our skis) - Full fledge convenience store at level 1 so we could easily buy snacks and drinks

- Was a ski in and out from one of the mountains but a distance away (approx. 45 mins by shuttle, we have to switch buses too) from the other 2 connecting mountains (Ichinose). We had to take the first bus out every morning to maximise our ski time as we have to leave where we were by 3+, 4pm to catch the last buses to our accommodation (or you can pay 800 to 1000 yen/per person just to get back to the hotel) - There was the toilet drainage smell, but assuming this would be the sewage issues in general not much the hotel - General to all of Shigakogen: if you don't take full board (dinner) at the hotel, you will pretty much have nowhere to eat!