Shiga Kogen Prince Hotel

Cheapest cost at the area called "Ichinose" which is the most popular street. Comfortable rooms with huge public Japanese bath at basement with onsen, snack shop, dinning room for more than 200 guests. 24 hours reception with very friendly staff. But staff speak Japanese only but you can use google translate if you have anything extra other than check in and out. They serves buffet breakfast and dinner inclusive in room fee, food is reasonable good but not gorgeous dinning

We stayed here for one night in Feb 2015 at the end of a five night stay at hotel Khuls (across the road). Ichinose is a great location for skiers and boarders as it's serviced by several lifts. Shiga Olyimpic is on the low side of the road so is not absolutely ski-in ski-out but there are three quad lift stations within a two minute walk in ski boots. Locker rooms in this place are big enough but the lockers are quite small. You can occupy several of them. The hotel is old but has been well maintained. Lower specification levels than others in the area (doors, trims, decorations etc) but the place is clean and well run. Some staff speak good English and they helped me with the tacky-bin labels (skiers and boarders bringing own gear to japanese ski fields should find out about baggage services). Room linens (sheets and towels) were of poor quality (futon covers were full of holes). Lots of road noise from the road traffic out front. Onsen, again was older and lower spec in style but was clean and functional. As is usual for Shiga ski hotels, our accoms came with dinner. We did not find the food to our liking. Too much fried fare and a lot of ground/reconstituted chicken. Soba noodle bar was OK This is a good little hotel but they are charging too much money. We paid 27,500JYN for two adults and a two year old. We were paying JPY23,000 across the road at Khuls where we treated to: western beds, far superior building fit out and bed dings; better onset; better ski lockers and drying facilities; much-much-much better food; free and strong wifi; unbeatable ski-in, ski-out access to the slopes.