Shiraraso Grand Hotel

Being able to walk on the beach in 20 seconds is an absolute dream! We had such a wonderful stay here and Shirahama is such a cute town! The hotel was wonderful for our family of 4 with kids sleeping on traditional futons and two large twins available for us! There are partitions to separate the rooms. My only slight issue was wanting the futon room to be more blackout as the sun rises early! The housekeeping doesn’t clean everyday but they do drop off amenities. The hotel breakfast was wonderful highly recommend the buffet as most places aren’t open early.

The Shiraraiso Grand Hotel is a lovely property situated right on the beautiful beach! We had a giant room with a great view. The staff is attentive and helpful (and we needed a fair amount of support!). Shirahama is a great city and there's a lot to see and do. Hot springs public foot baths; a cooking spring; the underwater observation tower; a museum with amazing views from the roof; sandstone cliffs; Entetsu arch...and the hotel has the most delicious soft serve ice cream! Breakfast buffet was impressive with both omelet station and onigiris being made on the spot. Delicious Wakayama citrus and ume.

This was my favorite stop in Japan. Beautiful beach, great staff and reasonably priced.

J’ai tout aimé de cet endroit! Une merveilleuse découverte

Un emplacement exceptionnel! J’ai tout aimé de cet hôtel; la chambre, la vue sur la plage, la gentillesse des employés, les kunatas, le buffet déjeuner, bref tout! Le soucis des details est incroyable! Je vais revenir c’est certain.

The property location and views from the hotel rooms are fabulous. Staff are extremely courteous and helpful, even to English-speaking travellers. The building is a bit dated but still very nice. We enjoyed the experience of the set dinners even if we weren't adventurous enough to try every course. Our kids loved sleeping on futons, running around the playground by the beach, and going to the onsens. It's easy to take the public bus around the area and IC cards are now accepted for fare payment, contrary to info on the bus website.

Amazing view of the beach. Couldn’t have been better.

房間很大及整潔，前台職員非常有禮，溫泉浴場非常乾淨，泉水夠熱。自助早餐質素非常高，雖然種類不是太多，但都很足夠而且每樣味道都非常好。

While the beach was beautiful and the room clean, it lacked food options and futons were uncomfortable.

Great hotel location, directly on the beach & superbe view of the ocean from the room. The hotel room could use a little update, but it was quaint and clean. The staff was very helpful with diner reservations & questions. The breakfast was outstanding!!!

Like most hotels in the area, it is showing its age abit but hotel is clean. Beautiful beach and ocean views from the room. Both onsen are nice and standardly equipped. Halfboard breakfast/dinner is also good quality. Many of the table staff are foreign and have a good grasp of japanese/english as there are tourist who frequent here, but service is generally good. Reception staff is also well versed in english as well and friendly/professional. One big complaint with the room is the heating/cooling ventialtion controls in the room are useless. As per the staff, it is a centralized system and regardless of whatever temperatures you set it will not change the temperature. (Either fan on or off.. and temperature during the day/evening it seems to be preset at 24 celsius but beware that early in the morning, the heater system kicks on and heats up the room alot up to about 28 celsius) In my travel during early April when it was warmer outside, room temperature was unbearably warm and i had to request for portable fan and shut off the main ventilation fan to make things more tolerable. Opening up the windows helped but I had to keep it shut due to mosquitos coming into room because there are no mesh netting on the windows. This is a big negative for those who cannot handle the heat/stuffiness in the hotel room. This is silly as the room thermostat has temperature level controls but it does nothing for the temperature. Otherwise, if you not mind it is a fine place to stay.

Like most hotels in the area, it is showing its age abit but hotel is clean. Beautiful beach and ocean views from the room. Both onsen are nice and standardly equipped. Halfboard breakfast/dinner is also good quality. Many of the table staff are foreign and have a good grasp of japanese/english as there are tourist who frequent here, but seevice is generally good. Reception staff is also well versed in english as well and friendly/professional. One big complaint with the room is the heating/cooling ventialtion controls in the room are useless. As per the staff, it is a centralized system and regardless of whatever temperatures you set it will not change the temperature. (Either fan on or off.. and temperature during the day/evening it seems to be preset at 24 degrees celsius .. and beware that early in the morning, the heater system kicks on and heats up the room alot up to about 27/28 degrees celsius) In my travel during early April when it was warmer outside, room temperature was unbearably warm and i had to request for portable fan and shut off the main ventilation fan to make things more tolerable. Opening up the window helped but I had to shut it due to mosquitos coming into room because there are no mesh netting on the windows. This is a big negative for those who cannot handle the heat/stuffiness in the hotel room. This is silly as the room thermostat has temperature level controls but it does nothing for the temperature. Otherwise, if you not mind its fine

Lovely, spacious room with such a gorgeous beach view! Plenty of cushy comforters on the futon made for an extremely comfortable bed. The meals are nothing short of spectacular!! Delicious and beautifully arranged. So good!

Bit outdated but great experience overall.

Location is superb, just next to the beach and we could see the beach light shows at night in our room. Also there are plenty parking spaces for those who drives.

Beautiful sea view ! Delicious dishes!

We stayed one night and had a lovely room overlooking the ocean which was just what we wanted. The room was very clean and spacious and well appointed. The breakfast was traditional Japanese and delicious.

It was an ok property excellent location right on the beach. The rooms were dated and had a urine scent and the couches are older but well maintained. They should definitely update the rooms even if it’s a few at a time to be more current.

I booked two adult and two children, but services prepared is based off two persons (especially, Futon. Where should our children sleep in our room ?). I wanted this hotel to take a little bit more care of children.

This is a love hotel with an excellent location, right next to the beach. The building is well kept and very clean, but it is getting a bit old.