ibis Ambassador Seoul Insadong

Location was excellent - easy walking distance from Jongno-3ga subway station with good connections which can take you to Seoul Station or to Gimpo Airport (and Incheon Airport using AREX from Seoul Station (but if you have heavy suitcases, be aware that whilst there are escalators and lifts, there are also quite a few flights of stairs). In good location for major tourist sites such as the two Palaces within easy walking distance, or subway to Seoul Tower etc. You can see the hotel's sign high up on the building so easy to find. Lots of restaurants, boutiques, tea/coffee shops etc. right in front of the hotel. Small laundrette with a washing machine & a dryer for 3000 won each and detergent for sale at 500 won was very handy. Rooms are typical IBIS rooms - spacious enough, good shower, good King size bed and a safety box. Always seemed to be 3 staff on the front desk, all with good English and helpful.

Couldn't master the air conditioning controls in our room but luckily it had an opening window.

Location was excellent - easy walking distance from Jongno-3ga subway station with good connections which can take you to Seoul Station or to Gimpo Airport (and Incheon Airport using AREX from Seoul Station (but if you have heavy suitcases, be aware that whilst there are escalators and lifts, there are also quite a few flights of stairs). In good location for major tourist sites such as the two Palaces within easy walking distance, or subway to Seoul Tower etc. You can see the hotel's sign high up on the building so easy to find. Lots of restaurants, boutiques, tea/coffee shops etc. right in front of the hotel. Small laundrette with a washing machine & a dryer for 3000 won each and detergent for sale at 500 won was very handy. Rooms are typical IBIS rooms - spacious enough, good shower, good King size bed and a safety box. Always seemed to be 3 staff on the front desk, all with good English and helpful. Great luggage storage room (really important for hotels where lots of guests arrive early in the morning and can't get in their rooms until the afternoon). They were also happy for us to leave our large suitcases there while we travelled around the country on the KTX with hand luggage, coming back to the hotel after our round trip and that was very useful.

Breakfast - we stayed in the hotel three times on this trip but only had breakfast once - it's a large hotel with lots of customers all eating breakfast at the same time, so it's not a relaxing experience! What is offered for breakfast was fine, particularly the fresh fruit.

We stayed here three times on the same trip - excellent location.