Name: Hakuba Gondola Hotel
Address: 4631-4 Hokujo Hakuba, Kita Azumi Nagano 399-9301, Hakuba, Hakuba, Hakuba, 399-9301, Japan
Rating: 6

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Stayed Dec 27 - 30, family with 2 young children. Firstly the location is outstanding. 2 mins walk to the Happo One gondola, total ski in ski out experience. The room was totally fine - good bunk beds for the kids and comfortable queen for us. Bathroom is a little small but who cares, water was hot and plentiful. 
Staff and customer service were amazing. Leigh and the team sorted out a double booking refund, served a great breakfast, whipped up barista coffees, lent the kids snow sleds, and just generally provided a great experience. 

Definitely recommend, we will be back for sure.

Great Location, great staff, will repeat!

This place has so much history and in such a good location, literally a stone's throw from the Happo One main gondola. We were up on the Gondola within 5 minutes of leaving the property. Rooms are big enough and clean which is the main thing, restaurant has decent food for a decent price & loads of fun nights in the bar, would highly recommend!

what a location!

Room was dirty, dank, smelled bad, moldy, dead insects on the ground. Customer service was rude, aggressive at times, and very unhelpful. Closest shared bathroom facilities was 3 floors away and also dirty, smelled bad and half the stalls were out of service. We didn't end up staying a single night of our booking, we couldn't. It was so bad, we asked the desk staff what our options were considering we both have mold allergies (the room walls were clearly moldy) and he said "good luck getting a refund, no chance". He was aggressive about this. This business is a sham and ripping people off as I doubt people who see the place in person would actually want to stay there.

Worst hotel experience of my life - pictures attached of our moldy, bug-infested room

It’s not fancy in any sense of the word. The two of us had a double en-suite room. It was standard size for Japan. The bed and pillows were below average. But overall the room was very clean and tidy. We were picked up from the train station which saved lots of time and stress. All the staff have been lovely. Breakfast is pretty average but hey, it’s included! The hotel is in the PERFECT location! At the bottom of the gondola at Happo-one, walking distance to heaps of restaurants and bars and the shuttle buses stop out the front. 
The only down side is that there is a lot of outside noice within the room. We could hear other rooms, people in the hallway and noise from outside very clearly. And light from outside lit up our room all night. 
Apart from these little things we were happy with our stay and will most likely return!

Average but not bad 

Came here with a mate for a snowboarding trip! We are very sceptical about this place when we were on the way. We had the place booked and arranged by our flight agent and didn’t know until the night before arriving. To be honest, the reviews are pretty terrible. The great things about the place was definitely LOCATION! The snow lifts is literally out the front of the hotel. Friendly staff at reception. All Westerners so it suited us Aussies. The bar next door was great food! Great burgers and western food. And played great live music at night. 
The bad things were definitely the noise in the room. It was as if a constant fan was on in the vent. Luckily snowboarding all day kills you so you fall asleep like a log! The breakfast is very average. Standard hostel food. Wifi is not good either. 
Overall, it was not the greatest place but it got the job done because we hardly spent time in the room and just wanted to be out in Hakuba and on the snow all day! 
Would I stay here again? Probably not with the girlfriend!  But with the boys? Yes, it is cheap and location is good.

Average stay

As most reviewers say The Gondola Hotel is basic Japanese accomodation, no room facilities etc. so don’t expect to be able to make yourself a cup of tea even. We found reception helpful but unable to solve the very noisy room we were allocated. Be sure you are not in A310 or A415 as there is a constant toilet flushing noise .... YES ALL NIGHT!

Don’t stay in A310 or A415

I want to give it a minus star but cant, therefore i give 1. I dont know why this hotel calling itself "3 star". Or Agoda calling this "3star". You judge for yourself from the photos if this is a 3 star hotel. The building looks so old and worn out.  I will not comment on the room size because, well. This is japan. Everything is small. But when we arrive there was nobody at the receptionist. There is no lift, the room smells like your grandma's old knickers (not that i smelled my grandma's knickers before, but you understand what i mean. Lol) i have a bad feeling that we cant park at the hotel and have to pay even more for parking. Guess we're gonna find out tomorrow morning. We paid 39.000 yen for 3 nights. Its like 165$ per night. This is more like a backpacker hostel. 
Going to move to a more decent hotel tomorrow. Hopefully there's any in this area.

Just dont come here.

An envelope with your name and key awaits for you in a basket on the reception desk. Then you have to carry your luggage up a very steep flight of stairs as there is no lift in the reception floor, you have to to go one floor up to find the elevators. The  place is run by westerners, so they speak English. They are helpful enough. The room was big enough for the 4 of us. Breakfast is ok, limited items in menu,  nothing special, but good enough. Included is also one dinner, a hot pot, very nice touch, but you have to cook it yourself. There is a bar coffee place in the hotel, but their sake sucks. Watered down the worse sake I ever tasted. The big let down is the ski hire shop. Unhelpful bunch of employees. There are lockers supposedly for you to use but the shop staff empty the lockers without tell you about it, while you are out on the snow skiing. Then give you a lame excuse as to why they empty them, there have been cases of property never to be found after the shop staff emptying lockers. Whether this is a modus operandi to steal your property, only they know.  They sell goggles at reception at ok prices. The ski hire shop and the cafe bar are the reason of rating of 3. Would I stay here again? NO!

Nothing special

The gondola lodge is hostel style accommodation with a great Vibe for young travelers (or the old with a young heart ). The dorm rooms are small but all you need to rest yor head for another day of snowboarding. The location is UNREAL, you can walk to the Gondola Chair lift, or wait outside for a bus to a different mountain. There are also lots of restaurants on the same street. The Gondola lodge has a great bar where we spent at least 2 hours every afternoon after snow boarding all day! Great Happy hour prices! The breakfast is perfect, eggs and toast is all you need. and UNLIMITED of coarse. 
Do not stay here if you are wanting 5 star accom. There is a reason the price is so great so just expect to share the bathroom and youll be fine. The staff are awsome and will help you plan any day trips from reception. They will also  organise airport transfers if you need. Super easy to hire all your gear there and they have a great locker room to store all your equipment so you don't have to take it into your room! 
Recommended for 18-30 yr olds.

Cheap, Fun & Simply perfect

Do yourself a favour do not stay here, we checked in and noticed there was a distinct smell of sewerage in the room, we quickly closed the window and thought it must have been coming from the alleyway.

We went out for dinner, on our return we could still smell a prominent stink that smelled like raw sewerage. There was not much we could do at that time of the night so had to sleep with that smell all night.

On waking, the smell was again really bad, we went down to the breakfast room where it was absolutely purid and was making us sick to our stomachs. 

We proceeded to the reception to see if they could move our rooms to somewhere else but the hotel was fully booked and the receptionist said they would not be able to help on this occasion, when I asked him about the rooms he said it would not matter where in the hotel we moved too, the smell would still be there, he said it comes and goes and the intensity will vary as well. This is not advertised on their website at all. The smell was so overwhelming and i I was feeling so sick we decided we could not stand it for 7 more days we moved out of the hotel to somewhere else.

The breakfast was awful and the single beds were hard as rocks and tiny, my husband is 6”3 and his feet hung over the bottom of the bed, the pillows should have been thrown out years ago, they were disgusting, this is not a 3.5 star hotel as advertised. 

This was supposed to be a happy occasion as my daughter and son in law got engaged, this has definitely not been the holiday of our dreams to Hukab

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