Hotel the Designers Seoul Station — Hotel in Seoul

Whilst I've said it's terrible, let me first say that it's in comparison to other hotels at this price point. Front desk was friendly and helpful, and the hotel is also conveniently located right outside Exit 10 of Sookmyung Women's University station. This is the exit with an elevator to surface level. ||||I'll talk about the good stuff. The hotel entrance is literally 10m from the elevator. Myeongdong is on the same line, just a few stops down, and so is Seoul station. Location is brilliant. ||||Can't say that much about the room itself though. There was a massive jacuzzi in my room that would easily fit 3 persons, which forced the designer to squish the toilet bowl and the shower together into such a tiny area that you'd think you were in Hong Kong. The position of the rainshower is such that you have to pass under it to get to the toilet bowl, and it drips, as most rain showers do. So every time you need to pee or take a dump, you'll get dripped on. Extremely annoying. There is no shower drop either, so the water from the shower area seeps out into the sink area. Also, I accidentally hit the jacuzzi on button, and the water spray shot over the low wall and onto the bed (the jacuzzi is RIGHT NEXT to the bed). The shower head is also ridiculously high and I have to stretch a bit to reach it. It's also a fixed position showerhead - you can't tilt it up or down, and the one I had listed to the left such that I had to shower close to the glass wall- so close, in fact, that I kept smacking into I as I showered.||||Oh, you can also hear the subway trains as they pass underneath the hotel because it's THAT close to the station. It didn't disrupt our sleep though. ||||Now let's talk about the linens. The bathmat they provide is TINY. Even though my room is for 3 persons, they gave only ONE bath towel. What, they expect us to share?! When we asked for an extra bath towel, this was readily given, but I found this incredibly stupid. There is also NOWHlRE to hang your wet towels. The clothes rail is so damned high that my short Asian self cannot reach it. I can only surmise that they built the clothes rack for giants. The aircon controller and the bidet toilet are all in Korean. It's a hotel for goodness sake, I don't want to struggle with controls even though I can read a bit of Korean!||||Curtains now. They have blackout curtains on one side, but at the toilet area, it's blinds that don't block the light very well. So the room is brighter than I'm used to in the day. ||||The next morning the toilet also clogged after I took a dump. ||||That said, it's mainly first world inconveniences I've mentioned, so if you can live with these things, more power to you! I certainly will not be booking this for a...

This hotel should not use Seoul Station as a way to attract customers when it is not next to Seoul Station. This is misleading and they need to change their name to Hotel Designers Sookmyung Women's University Station because their hotel is about 300 ft from the entrance to this station and not Seoul Station. I booked because I thought it was right next to Seoul Station and it wasn't. The staff members were nice but they did not care for any requests. I requested on Agoda and also in person that I wanted a high floor room and the front desk representative just said "yeah, high floor" then proceeded to hand me a room key to the 9th floor out of 20 plus floors that they have. That was all the interaction I had with the staff and the positives ended for this hotel. |You can take a look at the pictures of the walls and see how disgusting they are and this building from the outside looks amazing and barely 5 years old but how could their walls of rooms look like that. I found long strands of hair on the floor because housekeepers did not do a good job cleaning. Towels were old and everything just looked dated especially the furniture. I booked a larger room and it was just a standard room and this room was intended for three people and I was like how could that be possible? They have one international plug for the whole room, only one plug that I could charge my US phone. I would have to put down a deposit of 10,000 won to borrow a Korean charger from them. They also charge for all the amenities like toothbrushes, slippers, and anything else that a normal hotel would provide for you for free but here you have to pay for every single thing even for slippers which hotels in Asia always provide. |The sink is weird and it's hard to turn on and off the faucet due to its kitschy nature and the only positive in the bathroom was the large tub so i applaud them for that.|The beds were horrendous. Thank god that I only stayed for one night because they were as hard as a rock. I'm not even kidding, might as well sleep on the floor. The pillows were terrible and the sheets gave me rashes the next day due to their cheap detergent or they didn't even wash them.|Don't be fooled by the pictures and how nice it looks from the outside. The rooms are small even if you book a bigger room and their kitschy design choices make the rooms look and feel cheap especially after only a few years in business.|It was crazy that I paid $130 USD per night for this barely 2 star hotel. This hotel isn't even worth $50 and I was like what the hell how could they charge that much because they lied and stated that it was next to Seoul Station when it wasn't to trick me and countless...

This hotel should not use Seoul Station as a way to attract customers when it is not next to Seoul Station. This is misleading and they need to change their name to Hotel Designers Sookmyung Women's University Station because their hotel is about 300 ft from the entrance to this station and not Seoul Station. I booked because I thought it was right next to Seoul Station and it wasn't. The staff members were nice but they did not care for any requests. I requested on Agoda and also in person that I wanted a high floor room and the front desk representative just said "yeah, high floor" then proceeded to hand me a room key to the 9th floor out of 20 plus floors that they have. That was all the interaction I had with the staff and the positives ended for this hotel. You can take a look at the pictures of the walls and see how disgusting they are and this building from the outside looks amazing and barely 5 years old but how could their walls of rooms look like that. I found long strands of hair on the floor because housekeepers did not do a good job cleaning. Towels were old and everything just looked dated especially the furniture. I booked a larger room and it was just a standard room and this room was intended for three people and I was like how could that be possible? They have one international plug for the whole room, only one plug that I could charge my US phone. I would have to put down a deposit of 10,000 won to borrow a Korean charger from them. They also charge for all the amenities like toothbrushes, slippers, and anything else that a normal hotel would provide for you for free but here you have to pay for every single thing even for slippers which hotels in Asia always provide. The sink is weird and it's hard to turn on and off the faucet due to its kitschy nature and the only positive in the bathroom was the large tub so i applaud them for that. The beds were horrendous. Thank god that I only stayed for one night because they were as hard as a rock. I'm not even kidding, might as well sleep on the floor. The pillows were terrible and the sheets gave me rashes the next day due to their cheap detergent or they didn't even wash them. Don't be fooled by the pictures and how nice it looks from the outside. The rooms are small even if you book a bigger room and their kitschy design choices make the rooms look and feel cheap especially after only a few years in business. It was crazy that I paid $130 USD per night for this barely 2 star hotel. This hotel isn't even worth $50 and I was like what the hell how could they charge that much because they lied and stated that it was next to Seoul Station when it wasn't to trick me and countless...