Hotel Grand Vert Kyukaruizawa

New, Nice and clean hotel. Staff can speak English very well. Although the Breakfast dinging room is not large, we never have to wait in line for the queue. The hotel's breakfast have varieties of food; both Japanese and western style for you to choose. There are some restaurants nearby the hotel; sushi, Shabu Shabu and a kind of Izakaya restaurant (with English menu and staff can speak English a bit); in walking distance. Opposite the hotel, there is a convenience store that also sell daily product there. We got Strawberries and some sashimi from there. For those who like to walk, you could walk to the Old town Karuizawa shopping street. But as we are traveling with kids and seniors, we rent a car and park there. The hotel also have plenty of parking space for hotel guest; there are 3 parking areas around the hotel. The room we stayed has 2 beds and a tatami area that can fit 2 people; total 4 people.

One of the parking lot at the hotel is a bit small for a van (Alphard), but we managed to park there without any accident. The road in front of the hotel is very dark at night. And the hotel will be locked down at almost midnight so we have to prepare some snack before lock down time.