Hotel Harvest Skijam Katsuyama

“Great resort”

The ski ground is just right outside the hotel! They have wonderful facilities and offer sumptuous meals. We booked the all-inclusive package (room, buffet breakfast, buffet dinner, ski lift, spa entrance) and found it a great deal. The best part is the spa when you can relax after skiing for the w… lisää

The ski ground is just right outside the hotel! They have wonderful facilities and offer sumptuous meals. We booked the all-inclusive package (room, buffet breakfast, buffet dinner, ski lift, spa entrance) and found it a great deal. The best part is the spa when you can relax after skiing for the whole day. They even have an outdoor spa pool which is really a treat. Don't miss it especially on a snowy day, simply beautiful. The room is spacious (particularly in Japanese standard) with a small balcony for enjoying the snow scenery outside! The buffets are elaborate and delicious, just that one may feel a bit bored after having the same food for a few consecutive nights. It would be great if they can change the variety on different days of the week. All in all, this is a very nice resort, and the most convenient for a skiing trip at Skijam, highly recommended.

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“2 day, 2 night stay at Harvest Hotel ( Ski Jam Katsuyama)”

We did a big detour from our roadtrip in Osaka / Kyoto and spend 2 days and 2 nights at the Harvest Hotel in early March, 2014. A big thanks to Kuroda-san at the reception to help us book the hotel package as this hotel doesn't really let you book at discount websites, travel agents. Even when we w… lisää

We did a big detour from our roadtrip in Osaka / Kyoto and spend 2 days and 2 nights at the Harvest Hotel in early March, 2014. A big thanks to Kuroda-san at the reception to help us book the hotel package as this hotel doesn't really let you book at discount websites, travel agents. Even when we went on the hotel's own website, there was hardly any information or hotel rooms bookable in English. Some Pros (1) the hotel is truly ski-in ski-out (2) we paid under $1300 per head per night, this includes 1 day ski pass, buffet breakfast, and awesome buffet dinner, which isn't a huge steal but is still pretty cheap compared to say Niseko or Hakuba (3) the rooms unlike typical Japan hotels are HUGE and most actually can fit 4 with 2 single beds and 2 sofa beds (4) the crab hotpot special dinner, which you can order for dinner at a premium is realy really good and value for money (5) the ski resport reception, rest area, lockers, restaurants, ski hire, ski school are al in adjacent building (6) during the 48 hours we were there we saw only TWO foreigners the whole time, to me this is a great plus, feeling a true "get away". Some Cons (2) it is primarily a family resort ie LOTS of kids (2) don't expect the staff to speak very good english, its all very trial and error (3) there is 1300 yen toll road charge if you drive like we did (4) they are super strict with checkin/out times forget about asking for 1 hr delay (5) you have to share the onsen with pay-per-visit non hotel guests (6) the hotel was around 3-4 drive from Osaka, not exactly close (7) the snow conditions is still not as good as the traditional areas in Nagano or Hokkaido.

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