Hotel Sun Valley Izu Nagaoka Honkan

It's been 4-5 years since I've stayed here. I happened to see a postcard and decided to stay at the "Ryusui no Ma" room on a weekday because it was cheap. When I stayed at the "Ryusui no Ma" room for the first time, I was not used to traveling yet, so I was blown away by how luxurious it was. I was looking forward to it since it's been a long time. I've been to Izu Nagaoka for a few years now, and there are many good inns and it's a hidden hot spring area. Sun Valley's hot springs are great, so I went in there many times during my stay. I prefer Yumedono Dai-ni, so I go in from early in the morning until the last minute before check-out. The water is hot, so if you take a long half-body bath, you'll be warm for a while after you get out. It's raining with snow outside, but it's still hot when you get back to your room. Now, it's been a long time since I've had a buffet. About 10 years ago, I was impressed by the buffet here and stayed there often, but as I stayed at various other inns, the impression faded. First of all, for dinner, there are a lot of hearty main dishes. The ark shell in the nigiri sushi is a nice addition. The tempura, shrimp, and sillago? are also delicious. I wish the roast beef was a bit higher quality. The Chinese food was good, but compared to the popular hotel buffets these days, it was a bit poor. Dinner was passable, but breakfast was disappointing. I wonder if it has always been this low-quality. It's true that everything is so expensive nowadays and it's hard to run a hotel, but I feel like breakfast used to be better. The side dishes were poor, so I filled up on bread and jam. I think the hot springs are the selling point of this hotel. The room I stayed in had a cypress hot spring, but the large public bath and the open-air bath were so good that I didn't even get to use the in-room bath once. I would come again if there was a cheaper plan.

I go to Sun Valley for food. 5 times for Nasu, this is the 2nd time. People in Nasu are worried about snow in winter, so I will stay here. As for the food, I was wondering if there was something else to replace the crab, but there was nothing new. Sushi was also gone. In the past, there was always something you didn't see at the buffet, such as eel, and I was looking forward to it. It's sad that all hotels are having a hard time with soaring food prices, but it's sad that the content will be lonely. "Even when I went to Okinawa last month, the content was quite lonely." However, the taste of the food was delicious as it was, and what I liked the most was the ramen. I had a salty taste, but I put a lot of my favorite menma on it and ate it. Unfortunately, I ate it when I was full. It was always attractive to have surprising ingredients, but it has become normal and there is no reason to choose this hotel. In Nasu, there is also a buffet with only Chinese and Western food, so I would like to go there when it reopens. By the way, this time I went alone, so I stayed in the annex, but it's enough for one person. The two are a little tight.