New Seoul Hotel

The hotel caters specifically for Koreans, this was not clear from the hotel information on booking,.com the staff were pleasant but spoke little English, the hotel was very clean but a little tired, carpets really showed their age. The room we were given overlooked a major intersection with traffic lights, so many sirens, Police, fire, ambulance 24 hours a day. Surrounding areas were very dodgy and made us feel unsafe after dark when popping over the road to pollo loco for take out. The onside restaurant catered solely for Koreans and the head man spoke no English and the place had a very strong fishy smell. I had concern about the fire safety of the hotel our floor had about 200m of passages to the rooms but there was no fire doors other than one in lift area meaning should a fire occur the complete floor would become smoke filled. A good point was the car park and entrance had 24h security, The view from our room overlooked an selection of plastic sheet dwellings housing immigrants and piles of rubbish all around. Not the hotels fault but not a nice view. Room cleaned every day clean and tidy

Overall this is a nicely run, budget hotel that has a 24/7 guard, free parking, an onsite Korean restaurant and good service. My room was pretty run down, there were chips on the furniture and the carpet was old and dirty, but vacuumed. The bathroom was spotless. Surprisingly, though my room faced Olympic it was very quiet. I think they must have double paned glass. I did love the restaurant, but its not a fancy KTown restaurant, they cater to 'healthy' Korean food which I appreciated. Since I had a long-ish stay, I appreciated the front desk service and easy parking. I always felt safe there. I wish they could renovate the rooms. Since I booked the room on a 48 hour special, I suspect that they run these specials to fill the less updated rooms. I would stay there again and recommended this to a few friends. I even asked a Korean friend to check out reviews from the Korean community and they told me it got good reviews.