Mg Hotel Jonggak

“Good for Night Owls but not Morning Larks”

MG is obviously a budget hotel. There's an unprepossessing entrance and the rooms are rather spartan. Despite that, they offer a lot for your money: refrigerator, bidet-toilet, room slippers, bath slippers, a long shoe tree to help you put your shoes on without bending over, a nice little amenity… more

MG is obviously a budget hotel. There's an unprepossessing entrance and the rooms are rather spartan. Despite that, they offer a lot for your money: refrigerator, bidet-toilet, room slippers, bath slippers, a long shoe tree to help you put your shoes on without bending over, a nice little amenity kit, etc. My complaint is that the noise from the nearby bars was loud and went on past 2am. If you're a night owl and would be out and about anyway, this won't be a problem. For me, as a traveler who simply wanted to see the sights in the morning, it was an extreme annoyance to not be able to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning. I was also unimpressed by their "luggage storage", which consisted of placing your bags in the public entrance lobby where anyone can come by and grab them.

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“Convenient location, OK hotel ”

We booked the hotel because of the location: smack in the middle of tons of restaurants and bars, this is a lively and fun area right next to the pretty Cheonggyecheon Stream. There are also some lovely cafés overlooking the stream close to the hotel as well as several convenience stores. The metro… more

We booked the hotel because of the location: smack in the middle of tons of restaurants and bars, this is a lively and fun area right next to the pretty Cheonggyecheon Stream. There are also some lovely cafés overlooking the stream close to the hotel as well as several convenience stores. The metro stations Jonggak (line 1 connecting to Seoul Station and Airport Railroad) and Euljiro-1-ga (line 2 connecting to Hondae, Dongdaemun area, etc.) are a short walk away. The hotel itself was OK. The lobby and the furniture were a little worn, but the bathroom was new. The room was clean and came with a lot of nice amenities like mini-fridge with free water, water kettle and coffee, hair straightener, mosquito repellant, a little bathroom amenity kit (incl. a condom), very good shower gel, shampoo and conditioner as well as a Japanese-style Toto toilet. There is some room for improvement in my opinion: bathroom did not have any hooks to hang towels. Some of the pillows had eye make up stains (Korean make up is amazing, so I understand that it's hard to remove - still, the hotel should not give stained pillow cases to guests). And some of the staff spoke very limited English, so it was difficult to communicate.

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