Welli Hilli Park — Hotel in Dunnae-myeon

This past week, December 17-21, our family took a road trip out to Welli Hilli. After much research, the mountain and resort seemed family friendly. It was a straight drive on Highway 52 out of Seoul, past Jamsil, but it's a highway not on Google Maps, but on Kakao maps.||Impressions of the mountain: |In my experience skiing and snowboarding, Welli Hilli was more of an intermediate ski mountain. The slopes were nice and long, not necessarily steep, though there were some "expert" runs, and were perfect for teaching my daughter and son to ski, which they both learned well. If you're familiar with skiing in the Midwest in the U.S., then Welli Hilli is just like skiing in Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota. ||There were many groups of college students and families at the resort skiing, though it was clearly not busy. The bunny hill is Alpha slope and was a good run for learning to ski. Most of the beginning groups were on Alpha, causing it to be very crowded at times. It's also the hill for anyone to go up to catch the Beta lift to the top of the mountain. ||The rentals and tickets were very expensive. They are over 60,000 won for four hours for an adult and over 50,000 won for children also for four hours. It seemed pricey to me. Rentals were cheaper, but you can still find cheaper and better on the drive up to the mountain.||The hotel: |The hotel looks fairly modern from outside and the lobby, but the rooms are older, Korean style rooms, as others have noted in previous reviews. Now, we didn't mind this at all because our room had two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen facing the slope with a deck. This was very nice, so the older style room wasn't bad, in my opinion. We also had a room with no beds, but only the Korean-style, Japanese mattresses. This was nice because of the radiant floor heat which is very common in Korea. ||On the website, they advertise a pool area, and it does have a waterslide. The pool was very nice and the hot tub was mineral water and very hot, so it was nice to relax in after the day skiing. As for the waterslide, they turned it on just for us, and it was fun going down over and over. No lifeguard on duty, but there is a nurse's office right next to the pool. This wasn't expensive, but was worth the price. Remember: in Korea, you pay for use of the pool. It's not free like everywhere else. This one was good and the kids had fun. ||On the website, they advertise a bowling alley, karaoke, a kids club, arcade, bumper cars, and other things for younger kids. This was partly true. The things for the younger kids was closed and would've been perfect for my two year old, but the bumper cars, kids club, and other things for younger kids was closed. This was upsetting. Only at the end of the trip did the resort open a small area for infants and toddlers to sled and ski, but otherwise there was nothing for our youngest to do. The bowling and karaoke were fun, and our family had a really great time doing both. ||Overall, this was a good trip. It's potentially a really great mountain if the owners would put more money into modernization of the hotel and facilities. I would overall recommend it for a nice 1-2...

Very odd experience. Are all Korean ski resorts like this or is this place particularly weird? While waiting for my kid to finish her lesson by the ski school area, I was told by patrols several times to "get off the snow, since you are not wearing ski gear". I said I was waiting to pick up my child at the instructions of your ski instructor and they said "patrol is a different division from the ski school" (so they don't care). I have never been told that it is wrong to step on snow at a ski resort. Is this normal? When I asked why I couldn't the patrol said he wasn't sure but was just following orders. He speculated that the "clean snow may become dirty". I was not blocking anyone's path, just standing at the ski school meeting place.||||Also, all lift passes must be purchased on the day (no multi-day passes) and the passes are for 2,4, 6 or 8 hours since the time of purchase. So if you want so ski a whole day and night, you must go to the ticket office twice to buy tickets at least for the night ski.||||Rentals are another problem - you can only rent up to 2 days max. If you are staying 4 days, you must return all of your gear and then re-rent by standing in line at the ticket office! No feel of a fun resort at all. While employees were friendly, they clearly had no idea what was going on (just following orders blindly). The lifts open at 8:30am and the ticket office (where you have to purchase rental tickets as well) open at 8:20am.||||The only explanation I could come up with is that they don't care about casual skiiers. They only cater to people who buy season passes and have their own gear. Which perhaps would make sense if the slopes were good - but no... very boring and less than average. Also, if you take lessons at the ski school there, "by policy" no matter if you take 1x1 lessons and are quite advanced, they will not take you up to the top on the gondola. Is it because the slopes are too advanced? Absolutely not. It's "just policy".||||Food in general at ski resorts is bad in Korea so I think they rank "average". Rooms were clean but dated, so average.||||Overall, of all the ski resorts in the world I've been to... it really was the...

First time skiing in Korea and I picked this place which has several easy beginner slopes. We took a bus from Incheon airport directly to Wonju. We had some difficulty finding the Welli Hilli shuttle bus pick up point, and seemed to have missed the 6pm bus. So we took a taxi which cost us 50000 won (about HK$320) but at least we got there in about 35 minutes. The room we got was clean although the building seemed old.||The ski slopes were very well maintained. We got a 10:30a - 5p ski pass which normally cost about 65000 won but discounted 25% as we were hotel guests. One of the ski lift route was had up close snow spraying which was irritating to my eyes, hope the management des something to prevent passenger discomfort.||The food court was pretty much where most people ate plus a fried chicken and pizza joint. Don't eat the burgers there as the meat patties were not real meat.||Only a few English speaking staff but they were very helpful and eager to help.||We took the 4pm free shuttle bus to Wonju which took about 45 minutes. Then 1-1/2 hour bus ride from Wonju to Seoul which was quite convenient.||I will return to this place...