Supsok Hanbang Land — Local services in Seoul

If you are into the Korean spa (jjimjil) experience alone, this can certainly be an option to consider. However, if you are looking for some more holistic experiences with quality food, modern facilities, hygienic environments, this is hardly a place for you.

From the ageing facilites to foreign labourers as the staff, you will get the impression that people in charge of management are hell bent on money-making, especially at the expense of customer's benefit for the following reasons:

A. The place must have been trendy twenty years ago but thanks to the lack of any upgrade or professional maintenance, you'd feel like time-travelling to the late 1990s. Oh, I actually love the old days, too, but what I mean is the old-fashioned water cooler mustn't have changed its filter for years, the mattress and walls must have accumulated bacteria years after years without cleaning sessions, and the spoons you'd use may have been used for twenty years. At least, I've seen baby cockroaches at night and early in the morning around the water cooler in the common room.

B. Money, money, money: Want to change your sweaty shirt into a new one for a better sleep at night? Go to the counter and expect to pay even for a single piece of t shirt. Need a thin sheet of blanket? Oh, you'd better have money. Want an ice cream that costs 800 won in an ice cream store? Expect to pay more than three times the original cost. And of course, none of these seem to include a service fee with which you'd justly find a friendly staff who is more than a money-receiving machine. They just want you to pay as if it's theirs to begin with.

C. It's not a good place for a group of people to hang out together because the place is quite small and limited. The second floor is extremely noisy with TV sounds 24/7 and highly crowded. If you escape to the third floor, people are either sleeping at night, making no conversation possible, or watching TV at high volumes. Well, if you are finally ensconced in the jjimjil area, you'd find it difficult to talk thanks to the quiet ambience people expect and the humid air that would soon suffocate one of your people.

In sum, you may go here if you're into the sauna experience. It can be a prudent choice. However, if you are into a holistic spa experience in which you can talk with someone else without any worries about the hygiene and boredom from limited choices, I'd discourage you from...

Very interesting place and definitely worth a visit! In case it helps others I thought I would explain our experience.

At the main entry you are given pyjamas and the ladies are given a towel as well. Grab a key each for a shoe locker on the main entry level and this is also your key for the corresponding locker in the changing rooms. Women's changing rooms are down two levels from the main entrance level (main entrance is on the second floor) and men's are up one. In the segregated changing rooms you first wash and there are baths and some stream saunas. The men's area also has a barber.

When ready you can go to the first floor (one floor down from the main entrance) and it becomes mixed genders again. Good place to plan to meet. The main room has mats for relaxing. Good place to read if you want. They also have a small food counter, video games, massage services, and massage chairs.

Connected to the main area are the kiln rooms. There is also a small outside space. On other levels is a restaurant, golf area, segregated sleeping rooms, and other areas. Extras like food and some activities are paid in cash.

Most major signs are in English including the restaurant menu. Staff speak a little bit of English.

Hope that helps others! It may be a bit out of your comfort zone but I can assure you it's all manageable and it will be a really great...

Our korean friend recommended to visit this sauna to immerse into korean Jjimjilbang. Not a touristic one that always recommended by Google search, but into the real one, for an ordinary Seoul citizens.

It was a brilliant deep dive into korean culture! There was some english -language signs on walls, and the nice lady on reception desk know some english words. However, we was amazed by hospitality of korean to non-korean speaking "snowflakes"... All ladies help me! Moreover, a fantastic korean gentleman show my husband were to grab amenities for saunas and how to visit dry sauna in the right traditional way.

We spent here almost 4 hours, till closing at 9 p.m for dry sauna and 10 p.m. for whole building. And this is not enough! You can find in the common area for mens and womens 3 dry traditional saunas, one hot sauna, one ice room, open air space to sleep, restaurant, small shop to buy potato or something else for cooking on coal grill..

In the shower area you can find 2 hot tub, 1 cold pool and 2 saunas, like Finnish one. In a nutshell, it is a really breathtaking experience for enjoying bath...