Hanhwa Resort Haeundae — Hotel in Busan

First off, the pros: It's right next to the very walkable cinema path along the beach (no beach access). It has a great restaurant on the second floor that offers very fresh seafood - make reservations and pay in advance, and a great buffet breakfast (also extra).

The cons: Small gripe, which seems common with many Korean hotels, is the lack of outlets to charge your phone. There was one under the small desk in the bedroom. Since I was delegated to the floor (a full set of sleeping pads and blankets were in the closet) in the living room, I had to charge my phone separately.

Bigger gripe: Okay, what hotel does NOT provide extra towels?!? Each room gets 4 hand size towels for free, and any extra (and they only have ONE SIZE available), you are CHARGED 1,000 won each. Forget bath sized towels, you are relegated to drying yourself after a shower with a hand towel. Since we were three people sharing a one bedroom (two double beds and one floor bed), we each had our 1 hand towel and shared the fourth for drying hands.

Bring your own conditioner. The hotel provides shampoo and body wash. Bring your own lotion also.

The toilet had a bidet installed, but it was not functional.

For the price per room, I was...

Excellent and spacious rooms. Staff was helpful. Food is good. Location of the hotel is very - 2 good. One of the only issues was the Air conditioning. I was there were 4 nights, however, none of the nights the AC was working. In fact the temperature in the room was 28.5 degrees Celsius which is extremely hot and difficult to sleep. Upon checking with the Reception they said that the locals find it cold and hence they have switched on the heating. I do not understand why will a centrally air conditioned hotel which has controls in each room do such a thing. As a matter of fact the corridors very nice and cold. Though staff is good, however, the reply given is totally unsatisfactory. For the room size one can stay in this hotel, but AC please...

Pros : A good location, the room was clean. Cons : The room was too hot-but we are not allowed to use the air conditioner.

The reason I am givng only one star : We had a bakfast buffet at the restaurant in the accommodation. It was a buffet style. The food was OK, the biggest issues is the staff at the restaurant were extremely unpleasant. I had to clean the dirty table we were about to sit at myself, the staff was standing just beside my table, but she didn't do anything to clean the table. My father asked the staff to take a dirty dish away, but he snapped at my father by saying he culdn't do it right now and he would be back but he never came back. If you are going to stay at this hotel, don't use the...