Hotel APPI Grand

Most of the restaurants closed. Finally, instant noodles are our dinner @hotel. Very disappointed!!!!!!

It is a pretty dated hotel with nothing around. The staff try really hard but seem worn and jaded. The service is excellent despite that and they will literally move mountains for you if you asked for it. The suite we stayed in had a foul smell coming from the drainhole of the second shower. Otherwise the furniture is old and a little worn out. The public onsen is OK with good water and facilities but the private onsen is not of acceptable quality. The walls and ceiling are black with mold and water damage everywhere.The garden it faces is sparse and almost dead. I don't mean hibernate for winter dead but more like withered and desiccated dead. Meals are OK with a decent selection. The soft serve is shamefully poor quality for being in Japan and the scrambled eggs are powdered eggs. Bear in mind there are no other meal options in the immediate vicinity and they know it too.Meals can be ruinously expensive. Overall for the price you pay I struggle to see the value if compared with other resorts in Japan. The snowboarding and the mountain is fantastic if your timing is right but everything else is mediocre in the extreme. Overall