Hostel Korea Original in Seoul

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  Andrius Bureika

  :: 07 October 2024 12:22:46

  Naaah, stay here maximum one night :) Amount of dirt and mold everythere was really spectacular. After check in room wasn't cleaned with old beddings, so it took few hours to find someone and be able to change beddings and pillow covers. Location is good, but next time I would definitely would pay a bit more to avoid place like this.

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  Дарья Митрофанова

  :: 16 September 2024 01:32:16

  There are advantages of this hostel: 1. The hostel is located in a good place, there are mini-stores for shopping nearby. 2. There is a common waiting area with sofas where you can surf the Internet. 3. The kitchen is equipped: with a toaster, coffee machine, large refrigerator, stove, hot/cold water and ice machine. 4. Free shampoo and shower gel. 5. Sometimes there is bread and jam in the kitchen for breakfast. But there are many more disadvantages: 1. Dirty showers and toilet (combined), it smells terrible, hair and mold are everywhere. 2. The kitchen is also dirty and when the bread for breakfast runs out, they may not provide it, 3. You have to wait a very long time for the administrator. 4. Terrible dirt in the room where you can wash your clothes. 5. They don't change the linen in the rooms themselves (we had to constantly ask and change it ourselves) 6. During our 11 days of stay, the room was never cleaned (we had to take a vacuum cleaner and clean it ourselves). 7. The management is extremely unfriendly and unprofessional. 8. There was a situation where we put our clothes in the wash before 00:00 (according to the hostel rules, this is allowed), our clothes were washed and we had to throw them in the dryer. We had to leave the next morning, they refused to turn on the dryers, and we had to leave at 9:00 by bus to another city. The administrator refused to understand our situation, saying that some "system" was working that turned off the dryers. Although before that, we washed and dried clothes without any problems. As a result, we have wet clothes in dryers that do not work, and in the morning they will stink and be ruined. Bottom line: for this money, you can find much better accommodation. If you are staying for 1 day, you can tolerate these inconveniences. But we strongly do not recommend this hostel, you can only come here to spend the night. The management is very nasty.

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  Aleksandr “Вареник” Varenik

  :: 15 September 2024 22:56:04

  Overall good. But , Bed linen in the room is not changed. It's hot in the room. The showers are dirty and moldy and smell of sewage. They don't allow you to weigh yourself on the scales. The staff is always unhappy. Cleaning is completely absent. The price is not expensive but it's not worth it, different administrators say different prices. There is no competence at all.

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  Wiggly Roads

  :: 12 September 2024 08:54:56

  This place is decent, but could be so much better if they cared. The room is clean enough, with aircon and fan, enough space for sure. Kitchen is a pass, most things you need and decently clean. Lobby a nice touch, and smoking table outside (this area could EASILY be enhanced for sitting). Cleaning the bathroom is either non-existent, or just a surface wash (you need cleaner and a scrub brush). Bath/shower scum on the walls/door, toilet seat, sink/faucet etc. I don't understand why some places don't clean and sanitize multiple times a day (the ones who do it well really shine). I don't think bleach or anything similar is used (think of all of those people you are showering 🚿 with🙀😬). The front desk is intermittently manned by a variety of seemingly nice people, though very hands-off. There are signs for how to self-check-in, and It's not clear if anyone is really running the place. Mostly they come and go on electric bikes/scooters, which you might mistake to be the main business here if you didn't know it was a hostel. All in all not a horrible place, definitely well located, but some care would be greatly appreciated by paying customers. 🙏🏽🤔🛌 🚻✌🏾

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  María Buzzi

  :: 03 July 2024 06:52:36

  NOTHING GOOD WITH THIS PLACE. Cheap but SUPER DIRTY. There is no elevator and 3 floors. The kitchen was dirty, not only the fridge had mold but also some food in there. The staff is almost never there, you have to do check in/out by phone, and to share slippers with everyone as you had to leave your shoes in the entrance. You were supposed to enter the rooms area with the card but as soon as you approached the door it'll open automatically, no card needed, so anyone could walk around the hallway, guest or not. All 3 rooms we stayed (1 per night) smelled like mould, and had mould and dust everywhere. We forgot to book one night so the first one we stayed in a room with bunk beds and shared bathroom. The sheets were not clean, there were hairs on them, stains, and the dust in the place made us clean everything before going to sleep. You couldn't eveen open the window. Second night: we were supposed to be changed to a room with private bathroom with separate beds and it was not available even though we booked it 2 months in advance, the receptionist wanted to send us to two single rooms, one with private bathroom in the 3rd floor and one with shared bathroom in the 1st floor. After some time, we told him we would share a 2 size bed for that night because we wanted a private bathroom. The bathroom was truly nasty. Mould in walls and lavatory, toothpaste in lavatory, so it wasn't even cleaned. They don't clean behind the faucets. PUBIC HAIR & PEE STAINS IN THE TOILET SEAT. The fan was covered in dust, we couldn't use it and it was hot. If you opened the window, the mosquito net had a hole so bugs could come in. It was hot at that time. Third night: we finally had the room we booked. Just as nasty as the previous one. THERE WERE NOT ONLY PEE STAINS BUT ALSO BUGS ON THE TOILET, you had the bug spray on the hallway of the floor so it looks like it's a common issue. We stayed 3 out of 8 nights and did an early check out as my friend with asthma, that had zero issues in previous places in a 1 month trip, started having asthma attacks due to the dust in the place. We ended up booking other room in another area because we couldn't bear the grime that was in all 3 rooms and common areas. We asked the receptionist for a refund of the 5 nights we had left, but he said if we paid cash and booked with no refund, we probably wouldn't get one. He asked for my phone number so that the owner would contact us, which never happened on their end.