Hotel New Akao

“Excelente hotel”

Tem uma vista muito privilegiada para o mar. O quarto é bem amplo e aconchegante. Possui ofurô masculino e feminino, mas pra quem preferir mais privacidade e banho individual tem banheira no banheiro do quarto. Muita variedade de comida e os atendentes como sempre, aqui no Japão, são educados simp… Mais

Tem uma vista muito privilegiada para o mar. O quarto é bem amplo e aconchegante. Possui ofurô masculino e feminino, mas pra quem preferir mais privacidade e banho individual tem banheira no banheiro do quarto. Muita variedade de comida e os atendentes como sempre, aqui no Japão, são educados simpáticos e prestativos. Quando chegamos fomos muito bem recebidos e nos serviram um suco de boas vindas. Recomendo.

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“Muito bom!”

Muito bom hotel, com quartos aconchegantes excelentes ofuros. Alem disso os restaurantes são ótimos, a vista magnífica da baia de Sagami e a quantidade de belezas naturais. A parte oriental é muito boa!

“Maybe history should stay in history”

There are many attractive hotels in Atami, I specifically chose to stay in this one because I heard it was built in the height of bubble economy, with an impossible scale at an impossible location. Some background: The hotel has two parts, Ocean Wing and Horizon Wing. You can really treat them as t… Mais

There are many attractive hotels in Atami, I specifically chose to stay in this one because I heard it was built in the height of bubble economy, with an impossible scale at an impossible location. Some background: The hotel has two parts, Ocean Wing and Horizon Wing. You can really treat them as two different hotels that have different entrances, front desks and styles. They share facilities and they are both high raise buildings built on the edge of cliffs that look into the sea. The Ocean Wing in particular stretches all the way down to the bottom of the cliff while the Horizon Wing is on a higher location. I chose the Horizon Wing because I heard the rooms are nicer and quieter. The lobby of Horizon Wing was actually a tunnel dug into the mountains. They decorated it like a modern art museum, but the space was fairly limited and felt a bit constraining. It smelled exactly like a cheap Las Vegas hotel, probably because the air was stale there so they needed to treat the air. The guest rooms of Horizon Wing was housed in two separate buildings built above the tunnel, so going up would take longer than expected. If your room is above the 7th floor you need to change elevator once. The complex contained many cool spaces, one particularly impressive place was the lobby of the Ocean Wing. The main banquet hall is also said to be stunning but unfortunately it was not opened to the public. Some floors with public facilities were built in such a classical style that I can see why they say this hotel can't be reproduced again. The room levels, however, were far less impressive. At the Horizon Wing, the hallways felt eerily empty and did not bear the same class as the public space. I booked a Deluxe Twin Room with Separate Bath. It's supposed to be a premium room type yet that room was a lot older than I expected. It didn't have a temperature control, so you have to choose between keeping the AC running and get frozen, or not running the AC and take the heat and stale air. I was really surprised that they couldn't improve the AC when they renovated the room. The interior of the room also felt cheap overall. While this is no longer a luxury resort today it's still considered as an upscale one. Yet the room just couldn't meet the expectation. The only good thing about the room was that I don't hear the waves (which is a common complaint for people staying in the Ocean Wing). For dinner and breakfast, I booked the buffet option at the main dining room. This dining room was the biggest reason I stayed in this hotel: A huge, multi-level structure that was built almost at the sea level. With floor to ceiling windows that looks into a stone arch on the sea. The structure was indeed impressive. The view, however, was not as good as I hoped. The buffet area blocked most of the view on the lower level. The view on the higher levels was much better, but getting food was difficult since you have to go down to the lower level. I read many good review about the food here. The truth is that they weren't nearly as good as what people are saying. The buffet may look big at the first glance, but they were really just displayed in a way that made it look bigger. Most food were greasy by Japanese standard and tasted more like a school or office cafeteria than a upscale resort hotel. Even the drink option was very limited. Definitely not satisfying. One thing I can't review is the hot spring bath. I injured myself before the stay and couldn't use the public bath. They have 3 public baths in the hotel which could be more satisfying than other things I reviewed. Also don't miss the rooftop garden during your stay. It's not listed on the map but the entrance is right next to the main dining room. The "garden" connects to a network of trails and viewing platforms that are partially closed, but can tell you what the resort was like during its prime days. Overall I think this hotel is has some old school charmless, but can no longer be that great hotel it once was.

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