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ちょい旅日記(別府温泉旅):早めにチェックインしなきゃもったいない「ホテル白菊」 A Record of my Short Trip (around Beppu Onsen): A hotel you should check-into early, Hotel Shiragiku

 このホテルは、絶対に早めのチェックインをお勧めします。じゃないともったいないです。明礬温泉の立ち寄り湯「奥みょうばん山荘」から向かった先は、予約していたホテル、白菊でした。到着は4時頃で早めのチェックインでしたが、それがラッキーでした。理由は、満足感ハンパないウェルカムドリンクサービスを楽しめたからです。別府湾を見晴るかす最上階(12階)のラウンジで、15時から17時30分まで提供されるこのサービスは、宿泊者全員(団体予約は除く)が利用できるものです。

 I strongly recommend you check-into this hotel as early as possible. You’ll regret it if you don’t. We headed for a hotel called Hotel Shiragiku, which I booked beforehand, after Okumyoban Sanso, the day-use hot spring I mentioned last time. We arrived there at 4 p.m., a little bit early for check-in, but we were lucky in the end. That’s because we didn’t miss their welcome drink service, which was amazingly satisfying. It was served on the top floor, the 12th that looked down over Beppu Bay, from 3 p.m. through 5:30 p.m., and everybody who stays there can enjoy it except for group tour. 

 このサービスの凄いところは、地酒を含む様々なドリンクだけでなく、いろいろな軽食、さらには各種スイーツまで無料で楽しめるところです。ドリンクが置いてあるカウンターには、ワインの赤、白、スパークリング、そして大分県産の日本酒、焼酎の瓶が1本1本、氷で冷やされていて、好きなだけ注げるようになっています。もちろん、コーヒーや紅茶、ハーブティーなどのソフトドリンクも利用できます。食べ物の種類も選ぶのに迷う程で、チーズや焼き菓子、大豆を使ったオーガニックなプリンやかりんとうなどが楽しめます。こんなに飲み食いして晩御飯が入るのかと心配しつつも止まりません。ここまでのサービスを宿泊者全員が利用できるなんて、本当に驚きです。

 What impressed me most about this service was you can enjoy not only various drinks including some local rice wine and liquor, but also some sweets and snacks for free. There were bottles of wines and liquors like red wine, white wine, sparkling wine, local rice wine and liquor from Oita as well, and each of them were iced on a counter so that you can pour them into a glass as you like. You can also have some non-alcohol drinks such as coffee, tea, and herb tea as well. Plus, you can enjoy some food like cheese, baked sweets, and even a couple of organic snacks such as pudding and fried dough cookie made of soybeans so I even felt it was difficult to choose. I wondered whether I’d be able to eat dinner after having such a lot of food and drinks, but I couldn’t stop eating and drinking. It is amazing that all the guests can use such a great service.    


 夕食は18時から、同じ12階のラウンジでした。お迎えの一品から始まるコース料理は、小一時間前までさんざ飲み食いしたことを忘れるくらいの美味しさでした。サーモンと夏野菜のマリネで食欲がそそられたところに、新鮮な刺身の盛り合わせが提供されます。関イサキのお寿司一貫が付いてきましたが、これがまた旨いです。それから地魚のポワレ、蒸し物と楽しんだ後、いよいよ豊後牛の鍋料理です。炊き込みご飯やお味噌汁、香の物と供されたそれは、見た目にも美しく、とても味わい深いものでした。

 食事のあとは、ゆっくりと大露天風呂を堪能しました。創業72年というこのホテルは、それにふさわしい充実したサービスと、古さを感じさせない清潔感にあふれていました。ちなみに、朝ごはんのバイキングも素晴らしく、特にスイーツの充実ぶりは、よそにないものだと思います。心残りは、朝風呂に入り損ね、「碧の洞窟風呂」を楽しまなかったことです。

 We had dinner at the same place at 6 p.m. The course menu, which started with an welcome dish, was so delicious that I forgot I was almost full from the drinks and snacks I had less than an hour before. The welcome dish was a cocktail of raw salmon and summer vegetables, and it definitely gave me an appetite. Then, a dish of assorted sashimi, which was so fresh, came. A piece of sushi with seki isaki was also served with it and it was impressively good, too. After that they served pan-fried local fish, a steamed dish, and finally a hot pot of local beef called bungogyu. The hot pot, which came with seasoned rice, miso soup and pickles, was so beautiful and delicious.

 We enjoyed large open-air hot spring leisurely after dinner. That hotel was 72 years old and it had very good service and also very clean. By the way, the breakfast buffet was also great and I have a feeling that the sweets they serve there are something special. I feel regret that I didn’t take a bath in the morning and I missed out on a hot spring called Ao no Dokutsu Buro.

www.shiragiku.co.jp 

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