Thanks for that, Tubby.
To be frank, I find the accommodation in SK is generally more expensive than Hakuba, mainly because most of them are hotels and you are somehow forced to take the breakfast and dinner at the hotel (because I know there is no restaurant there), which makes the price more expensive.
If I stay in Sun Valley (I found one family hotel which is not really expensive), is this the location where the public bus (those that comes from Nagano or Yudanaka) stops? And if I want to go from Sun Valley to Ichinose area, is it true that I can take the SK free shuttle bus to the