Hotel Route-Inn Abashiri Ekimae

The location is very good, there are restaurants and convenience stores around, it is also close to the station, and there are two parking lots. The room is spacious, the breakfast is also very good, the soundproofing and hygiene are also ok, and there are many guests during the operation of the icebreaker.

I originally wanted to book Dormy Inn but I booked too late (I wanted two rooms, but there was only one room left on all the booking websites). Let me start with the disadvantages: Compared with Dormy Inn, Route Inn is a little further away from the drift ice boat terminal and the restaurant gathering area (about 20 minutes walk), and it also lacks the small favor of free ramen at midnight like Dormy Inn. Okay, that's all the disadvantages. Here are the advantages: First, it's cheap. During the peak season of drift ice, Dormy Inn charges 13xx without breakfast, while Route Inn only costs less than 900 and includes two breakfasts. The breakfast is surprisingly good. Secondly, I was worried that the roads would be difficult to walk on in the winter when it snows and ices, but it's actually not bad. In addition, if you really don't want to walk, it's easy to get a taxi between the JR train station and the drift ice terminal in Abashiri. The one-way taxi is between 700-1000 yen. Even if you take it 4 times a day, it's only 200 RMB. Taking this into account, Route Inn is still much cheaper than Dormy Inn (not to mention that it's far from Dormy Inn to the JR station). Also, Route inn's service attitude is very, very good. We stayed for two nights and bothered them three times in total. Once we bought ice cream online and sent it to the front desk by courier service, and bothered them to collect it; once we asked them to help book a taxi to Cape Noto to watch the sunrise in the early morning; and once we sent our large luggage to the hot spring hotel by courier service. The service attitude is quite satisfactory! In addition, their employees have good English skills! As for the hotel room and hot spring bath, we have nothing to complain about. The standard of a three-star hotel in Japan is worthy of the room price. Having stayed at Route inn, I will not consider dormy inn next time I come to Abashiri unless the latter has the same room price as the former.