Seoul N Hotel Dongdaemun — Hotel in Seoul

The other reviews describing this place as more of a hostel is accurate. It is somewhat between a hostel and a hotel. There’s a front desk if having staff on-site important to you and breakfast is provided. ||Microwave, sitting area and washer is available right beside the lobby. Location wise, this place is great. ||It’s a short walk from the metro and bus stop that took us to many tourist spots. ||The breakfast selection is very small but decent given the price. There are fried rice, hotdog, mandu, coleslaw, banana, yoghurt, cereal, hard boiled egg, bread, jam, milk, orange juice and coffee machine. Throughout our stay, it’s the same food offered except that the kimchi fried rice rotated with non-spicy fried rice. ||Personally I enjoyed the breakfast as I was not expecting it. I like having eggs and banana for breakfast. Sometimes we skipped breakfast as it didn’t start early enough when my friends and I headed further out (e.g. to Nami Island). ||I stayed with 2 friends (3 ladies in total) in a room with a bunk bed and a single bed. Thanks to the bed ledge, we had plenty of space for daily essentials.||I can see why some reviews said there wasn’t enough space for luggage to be placed on the floor.||We are 3 petite agile Asian ladies so it worked for us (need to squat in a tight space to get belongings from the luggage). We had 3 check in luggage and managed to put our luggages side by side. My hand carry luggage had to go under the bed due to the lack of space.||Read the signs carefully everywhere you go in Korea. In this hotel, the used toilet paper cannot be thrown into the toilet bowl. There’s a bin provided beside the toilet bowl for soiled toilet paper. Hence every morning, we would fill up a slip of paper at the lobby area to request for our room to be cleaned (bins cleared). ||One of our biggest qualms was the bathroom doors where you can see the silhouette of bathroom users very clearly. ||Perhaps the hotel may want to consider pasting some kpop posters (anything opaque) over the door for bathroom privacy. And pls include some hooks on the door for hanging of clothes, we got around using hangers plus hanging clothes on the door as a privacy screen.||Another downside is the size of towels provided which are what I would consider hair towels.||If this hotel’s location and budget fits your needs, why not? Some tips are given in this review. Overall I feel that it’s clean and there’s no weird sewer smell from...

The other reviews describing this place as more of a hostel is accurate. It is somewhat between a hostel and a hotel. There’s a front desk if having staff on-site important to you and breakfast is provided. ||Microwave, sitting area and washer is available right beside the lobby. Location wise, this place is great. ||It’s a short walk from the metro and bus stop that took us to many tourist spots. ||The breakfast selection is very small but decent given the price. There are fried rice, hotdog, mandu, coleslaw, banana, yoghurt, cereal, hard boiled egg, bread, jam, milk, orange juice and coffee machine. Throughout our stay, it’s the same food offered except that the kimchi fried rice rotated with non-spicy fried rice. ||Personally I enjoyed the breakfast as I was not expecting it. I like having eggs and banana for breakfast. Sometimes we skipped breakfast as it didn’t start early enough when my friends and I headed further out (e.g. to Nami Island). ||I stayed with 2 friends (3 ladies in total) in a room with a bunk bed and a single bed. Thanks to the bed ledge, we had plenty of space for daily essentials.||I can see why some reviews said there wasn’t enough space for luggage to be placed on the floor.||We are 3 petite agile Asian ladies so it worked for us (need to squat in a tight space to get belongings from the luggage). We had 3 check in luggage and managed to put our luggages side by side. My hand carry luggage had to go under the bed due to the lack of space.||Read the signs carefully everywhere you go in Korea. In this hotel, the used toilet paper cannot be thrown into the toilet bowl. There’s a bin provided beside the toilet bowl for soiled toilet paper. Hence every morning, we would fill up a slip of paper at the lobby area to request for our room to be cleaned (bins cleared). ||One of our biggest qualms was the bathroom doors where you can see the silhouette of bathroom users very clearly. ||Perhaps the hotel may want to consider pasting some kpop posters (anything opaque) over the door for bathroom privacy. And pls include some hooks on the door for hanging of clothes, we got around using hangers plus hanging clothes on the door as a privacy screen.||Another downside is the size of towels provided which are what I would consider hair towels.||If this hotel’s location and budget fits your needs, why not? Some tips are given in this review. Overall I feel that it’s clean and there’s no weird sewer smell from...

It was good enough for me that the room was spacious, well-lit, warm at winter and bed was comfortable. A big plus was the bathroom that was also spacious and equipped with bidet and rain shower system. For this price range, it will not be easy to find these features elsewhere in Seoul that even comes with a decent breakfast buffet offering more than the usual basics from other guesthouse in the city. But do not expect much more than this as you just get what you pay for. Extra needs come with additional charges such as a full toiletry set and bath towel. However, body wash, shampoo and small towel are available in the room so you still have the option of just making do with that but bring toothbrush and toothpaste. You can also ask for extra small towels. You will have complimentary three bottles of water and there are water dispensers around the hotel which is very good. The management can do better with maintenance. Facilities in the lobby seem worn out with a smell of naphthalene. There were molds on the edges of the bathroom glass walls. I actually wanted to clean it out as my flat in Korea has the same bathroom style and I encounter the same trouble with the molds but it goes away with one wipe of the cleaning solution I use regularly. As for the location, it is around a market vicinity. There is a bus stop nearby but the subway station is a 5-minute walk and you would pass by an alley. It was dark and scary around 10pm so you may opt to pass a longer way. It is close to attractions but not at walking distance so the budget you save for accommodation might be allotted for transpo. The staff can be friendlier. I witnessed a staff getting impatient and sounded unpleasant with a guest asking for help...