Jeju Raon Hotel & Resort — Hotel in Jeju

Jeju Island’s economy is based on the tourist industry and as such has more than its share of cheesy resorts. Raon is not one of those! It’s located towards the western shore of the island, about 40 minutes from the airport.||We stayed in the serviced apartment section of the resort. It is brand- new and many buildings are just being completed. Although we were only there for two nights, the apartments are fitted out such that you could stay for several weeks or even months. In Korea, you take off your shoes and leave them at the entrance --pleasant surprise for the feet, there is under- floor heating, just marvelous. Our apartment (the so-called “B” unit, they need a marketer) featured two en suite bedrooms, a guest bathroom, large, open- plan living area /eating area / kitchen and a very large balcony with additional outdoor dining table and chairs, overlooking the golf course and a view to the sea off a ways. (Sorry, golfers, I do not golf, so I cannot rate the course.) But it was fun watching the golfers batting away at the balls stuck in the bunker just below us whilst we sipped G&Ts.||TVs in each bedroom plus the living area, but no WiFi just yet, only a cable. (Hint: always take an Apple Airmac or similar product with you (works on PC too) and it turns the internet cable signal into your own secured WLAN, so multiple users can access at the same time.)||The bedrooms are nicely fitted out, great linens, Aloe Vera amenity kits in the bathrooms, bidet toilets. For the Greens out there, the toilets functioned effectively with 1 litre flush, impressive. Water temp varied during the shower but no problem really. The master suite accesses the balcony and has a huge walk- in shower / bath area and twin sinks. The other bedroom’s bathroom is considerably smaller but still worked well and was perfectly adequate. You can see their floorplans online (mostly in Korean but randomly clicking around eventually gets you there…)||The kitchen has a huge double fridge and double freezer. We couldn’t imagine cramming enough hungry people into the apartment to support filling the fridge. A hoarder’s delight I suppose. Anyway your groceries could get lost there. There is a dishwasher, rice cooker, cooktop, toaster, microwave / convection oven, clothes washer / dryer combo, coffee maker and so on. All the instructions for all the above, the air con, the TV remote are in Korean only, but the staff are very happy to help.||We took the breakfast plan. It is the standard Korean breakfast, nicely done, good selection. The island grows mandarin oranges, so the juice was mandarin juice, very tasty. The pastry chef did an amazing job on pastry, good enough to call Paris home and worth breaking the diet for. The boiled eggs were WAY overcooked, the yolks having turned into hard, crumbly grey- green objects. No back bacon but with the local bacon I was able to fake a bacon buttie. We also tried the Karaoke Bar, good sound system and very important to our group of 20, a good selection of songs in English.||To sum up: great place, and will look nowhere else next...

Old hotel, needs renovating however we enjoyed our stay. Relatively close to the beach. We stayed here for 5 nights. Overall we enjoyed our stay but there are some issues we faced. Firstly they began to tell us they couldn’t accept my Korean issued ID and needed to take a 200,000 won damage deposit (this sign was written in English and showed to us at check in). Once they realised I was using my Korean ID card and bank card they suddenly didn’t need to do this which we found this confusing and wondered if the policy is only applied to some guests. We were also given an information sheet that said we had to “use the room cleanly or we will be charged” meaning we were always conscious leaving in the morning due to thinking we will be charged so we couldn’t fully relax. The room is big but old. The floor wasn’t hoovered for 2 days so sand was still on the floor. The room overall wasn’t well cleaned…we found spiders on the head board and we couldn’t walk on the terrace due to the board lifting. On our final evening, we found sand from night one still on the shower floor. Every night there was so much noise from the room above making it hard to sleep. However there are some positives. The staff are friendly and answered our questions in a polite manner, it’s a great location close to the beach and the room is a good size. Overall, we enjoyed our stay despite there being some things that need to be improved. For the price we paid, it was an okay stay, however we won’t be staying here again and if we paid more than we did we would be...

We were on a week anti-clockwise self-drive tour around Jeju Island. Raon Hotel was our second stop after our arrival night in Jeju City. We checked-in the hotel after visiting Hallim Park and Hyeopjae Beach.||This hotel was located in a secluded area with a well-built entrance gate manned by welcoming security guards. It exuded a private country golf club feel.||The whole hotel and rooms were spacious, clean and well furnished. There were quite a number of residential blocks behind the hotel main block which I guessed were serviced apartments. We could see some golfers in action in the morning.||Unlike accommodations in Jeju city and Seogwipo, there were ample parking lots in the open.||Views from the rooms were mountains in the distance, golf courses and man-made lakes. Quiet and serene.||The only imperfection was there was not enough towel rack in the bathroom. ||There was additional charge to use the hotel pools.||There was a hotel restaurant. Other dining options were located along Heopjae Beach (10minutes drive away) which tend to close as early as 9pm except for some pubs which might not be suitable for...