Konjiam Resort — Hotel in Gwangju-si

Konjiam Resort seems not well prepared for non Korean guests. I emailed to the ski school for registering the ski lesson 2 months ago before we visited, but they replied me that it’s too early and asked to approach them again later. Then I emailed to them again one week before we go, but no reply (although the email was marked ‘read’) … ||We visited to ski school right after we settled down the luggages in the room, and spent an hour at the school to ask/negotiate for the lessons with the staff … there’s only one staff can speak English (however she is not the decision maker) … she became a translator between me and the ski team (incl. the school manager who cannot speak English unfortunately) … they kept changing and changing their mind (i.e. can and cannot arrange my kid to join with other students / can and cannot arrange a one-on-one ski coach / can and cannot find a ski coach with short notice, etc.), although they know it was their mistake on the email, they refused to compensate nor do anything even though the customers are sitting in front of them!! || ||After all, we felt very upset after wasting an hour over there, as we don’t want to spend any time with these people, so we didn’t get any lessons … and they all look happy when...

Konjiam is a one hour drive from Seoul, located near Gwangju and Icheon. There is undercover car parking and a short walk to the ticket booths for ski rental and lift tickets. The ski rental is just inside with a short form filling of height, weight and shoe size details. Boots are traditional tongue and buckle type. There are lockers for 1000won opposite to store shoes securely. Up the escalator to the ski rental counter then outside through the electronic turnstiles onto the slopes. There is one x four seat beginner chair lift, one low intermediate and two intermediate and advanced lifts all 6 seat chairs.|Konjiam sells 2,3,4,6 hour tickets which means half day with younger kids is usually enough. Deals can be found on Naver website at 30-50% discount. For the adventurous there are local ski shops selling lift ticket and equipment rental too. |There is a simple cafe at the top of the mountain with good coffee and fish cakes, hot dogs, sausages and hot Choco etc. There is also a convenience store and restaurants in the condo and near the ticket booths. |Good for beginners, intermediate skiers and families. Being close to Seoul makes half day morning skiing possible departing at 8am and be back in...

This Resort is what I'd call a typical midrange resort. We payed 200 dollars for a two bedrom suite on a Sunday night with a lovely view of nothing on the 3rd floor. The room came with bodywash and shampoo but no toothpaste. There was a kettle but no complementary tea, but to be fair there were two nepresso capules for the coffee machine. There is no water machine in the entire resort, so when my wife needed water for my 6 month old son she spent the evening boiling tap water. The restaurants were nice and a decent selection, but they tried to charge 9 dollars for a small can of beer. Get drunk on the convince store 4 for 10 bucks deal.

The resort itself is a little old but still thinks it can charge 5 star prices. There are better resorts in Korea with way better deals.

The surrounding parklands was lovely. Maybe worth a day trip? Nice gardens. The monorail is a ripoff at 16 dollars per person for a 3 stop ride.

Would not visit again even if it...