Resort Hotel Olivean Shodoshima

“Relax, relax, relax”

We came for 3 days in a bussiness trip and everything was relaxing in this hotel. Very sympatic staff and very helpful. Incredible onsen (traditional japanese bath)!! Nice breakfast buffet with eide assortment of traditional japanese dishes and some western’s.

“Amazing service”

We stayed 1 night with Olivean. The service is great, although the location is not the best, as it is up on the hill, yet if you are with car, shouldn't be a problem. It is the location which allows you to enjoy both sunset and sunrise in the resort! Since we don't have a phone card, we contacted … lisää

We stayed 1 night with Olivean. The service is great, although the location is not the best, as it is up on the hill, yet if you are with car, shouldn't be a problem. It is the location which allows you to enjoy both sunset and sunrise in the resort! Since we don't have a phone card, we contacted the general online chat agent on the website to confirm the pick up time once we got on the ferry from Takamatsu. After the pick up, the driver was so kind and stopped at the Angel Road. So we explore the area for about 40 mins, (more than enough), while our luggage were arrived at the hotel. Room is spacious, we have two beds in the room which are of bigger size. The bathroom is comparatively smaller, yet who cares, we went for the hotspring! Both buffet dinner and breakfast was nice with plenty of options. Since the restaurant could be quite busy during dinner time, so the service could be a bit less attentive than they usually do. We arranged the Firefly Tour with the hotel at just JPY 300. We saw few of them maybe it is still early for the season (early June), which is good for me as it is my first encounter.

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“Food amazing”

The buffet dinner & breakfast are wonderful. Great choice, fresh and delicious. Helpful staff, especially as English is limited around the resort. Gorgeous views looking over the Inland Sea. Access from Takamatsu is easy and there's a free shuttle bus.

“Great sea view”

The hotel room is very big! And the sea view from our room is excellent, we missed the sunset though. However, everything in my room looks dated... The outdoor onsen is great! (And the hair dryer there is much better than the one in my room...) Free parking is available. The breakfast buffet is … lisää

The hotel room is very big! And the sea view from our room is excellent, we missed the sunset though. However, everything in my room looks dated... The outdoor onsen is great! (And the hair dryer there is much better than the one in my room...) Free parking is available. The breakfast buffet is okay, but the dinner buffet is not good......it doesn't worth that price.

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“Lots of possibilities, but need major updating and motivation.”

The hotel is very interesting. Especially if you are from either North America or Europe. The hotel is definitely a three star resort. The building and majority of rooms are very dated from the 1990's. HOWEVER if you book either the 2 suites or the get a room in the newest floor on the far side … lisää

The hotel is very interesting. Especially if you are from either North America or Europe. The hotel is definitely a three star resort. The building and majority of rooms are very dated from the 1990's. HOWEVER if you book either the 2 suites or the get a room in the newest floor on the far side of the hotel, those were renovated in 2022 and look amazing. So when we arrived a wonderful agent greeted us and told everything about the hotel. We booked the suite, because I knew it was one of the renovations that was made. When booking here breakfast and dinner are included in the price. Since there was 3 of us, mom dad and kid, we were charged for our son. (The charge was for the food) It's a buffet for breakfast and dinner, and while the food is fine, it wasn't anything memorable. But what buffet is memorable? When talking about the dinning and stuff with the check in agent, she told us that we had to reserve a time for when we want to eat. So she gave us some cards. Three cards for breakfast at a specific time and three cards for dinner again at a specific time. This we were ok with since the hotel wants to know what time we want to eat, to control the capacity of the restaurant. After that we asked about the swimming pool. We were looking forward to using the swimming pool. However, the front desk lady told us that the pool is only open on the weekends. Which I was so confused about but went along with it. (We travelled in July here which I would assume is the middle of the summer) This property has a lot of other activities that you can do but it seems very seasonal and or only available on the weekends. Once we were all checked in she gave us a room key and we walked to the room. When walking to our room the suite we basically saw the entire hotel. It definitely was dated and you could tell that not much maintenance has been put into the majority of the rooms. (Unless you go to go the suite room X2 or Terrace rooms. This area of the hotel was the one that was recently renovated.) Once we got into our room it was a total transformation day and night different between the rest of the hotel. The room smelled clean and had a high end soap set, welcome amenity drinks, small snacks and some other goodies provided. The room was extremely spacious and is about 960 square feet. Our room also came with a giant shower and soaking bath along with an outdoor terrace area for us just to sit back and watch the sunset and stare out at the hills and ocean. There was another room that was separate for dining which was awesome and they gave us a microwave and a good refrigerator. While staying at the hotel we tried to find as many things possible to do there however, during our time (since it was in the middle of the week) There was pretty much nothing to do. The only activity we were really able to do was go to the small arcade for kids and also play some ping pong in a back area. The property offers other activities but I assume that they were not in season so I couldn't tell you that much more from it. I did see a mini golf course along with a tennis court but again that stuff was closed when we went. One of the nice benefits of this hotel though is you can rent a car. They have two old cars but they run great and they you can go almost anywhere on the island. We rented one for about 6 hours and it cost us about 6,000 Yen. So it wasn't really a bad price. Overall, the hotel's fine but leaves a lot to be desired. Would we come back to this place, probably yes, but only because there's not many more choices in the area. And the room we got was probably the newest room on the entire island of Shodoshima.

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