Travel Tips: How To Pick An Accomodation in Korea

Whenever you go travelling, accommodation play an important part in your journey even though you spend most of your day time outside and only come back to hotel during the night. So, while you are cracking your head in searching a place to stay in Seoul, perhaps my latest blog post can give you an idea on where to stay.

Price
The hotels price in South Korea is quite high compared to Malaysia, which cost around RM170/night for a 2 person room. So most of the travellers will choose to accommodate at Guesthouse or Hostel, where the price will be slightly lower at around RM60 per person. Some of the guesthouses(abbreviated as GH) provide breakfast at the price you paid, but some are not. So, be noted on that.

Room
Since we are staying at the GH,so the room size is not big like hotel room. However, we still have space to walk around when we open up our luggage. 4 is a good number to go travel around because most of the GH in Korea will have dorms to meet the budget travellers’ need. So, if you are travel with 3 other friends, you can stay in a 4 beds dormitory room(with or without attached bathroom), with a cheaper price and everyone have their own bed. If the GH that you picked to stay at have a common area, then you have the chance to meet friends come from different places, which I think is cool.

Location

The very complicated spider web like subway links in Seoul

Places in Seoul are well connected with subways(which consists of nine subway links),so I would say pick a GH near to those subway stations is the rule of thumb. And, from what I experienced, the most convenient places to stay are the GH/hostel/hoetl that near to Jong-no-3-ga station, Euljiro-3-ga station, Euljiro-4-ga station and ChungMuro station. As these stations are the meeting points of 2 or 3 subway links which link to most of the tourist spots, so you can walk lesser and save time to transfer from station to station.

Recommendation
You can book your hotel by running through the review scores in those hotel booking websites(eg Agoda, Hostelstay, Booking.com etc etc)and Tripadvisor or read travel posts from forum or blogs. Now everyone can fly and everyone can travel, so everyone will share their travel experiences on forums/blog, so just appreciate the precious experience that they shared out. 

MY’s experience:

When I was in Seoul, I stayed in Myeong Dong Hostel and Hong Guest House. For Jeju Island, we stayed in HK Jeju I which located at Jeju City(Jeju-do divided into 2 parts: Jeju City and Seowigpo City).
I will elaborate more on the 3 hostels that I stayed in Korea.

That’s all for today. Thanks for reading.