Gyeongju Hotels

Easy access to bus station and Gyeongju City Tours. Hotel is comfortable.

It has "hotel" in its name, but it's a motel in disguise. Korean love motels are generally pretty cheap (~ 50.000 WON; less than 50 USD) and probably cleaner than 2.5-3 star hotels as they are extremely diligent with their cleaning, but they do not take online reservations. They take walk-ins for the most part. Hilton down the street had terrible reviews, so I went with Swiss Rosen since they take online reservations and I paid much more than the typical love motel rate. I had no idea there were so many hotels and motels in the area. If I had more confidence that I would find a place to stay without making a reservation, which is very common in Korea, I wouldn't have made the reservation. Due to the marathon weekend, anything I could find online was completely sold out for the weekend, so I ended up visiting Gyeongju during the week and spent a Thursday night at Swiss Rosen. I am Korean (currently living in the US), so the language was not a problem at the front desk, but for foreigners, it might be a challenge (my travel companion does not speak Korean). The bedroom itself was fine and the bed was pretty comfortable, but the bathroom needed a thorough disinfecting and general maintenance as it had a lot of mold, cigarette marks, and cracks everywhere. We had a friend showing us around Gyeongju by car during the day and took the train back to Seoul. It's about a 35 minute cab ride to Singyeongju KTX train station.

overall statisfy with the service.very luxury hotel with reasonable price

This hotel has the potential to being fantastic. However, since we were there in July, the heat of the summer, the air conditioning should have worked. It did not. It was nearly impossible to sleep for the four nights we were there. Also, being the summer, it would have been nice if the outdoor pool had water in it.

The Suites had wonderful staff and quite tasty room service. If we asked for anything, we got it. Two problems, however: one, the "Korean style" bedding is a very, very thin futon...actually, it feels more like you're sleeping on a thin comforter, particularly as there are marble floors in the beautiful rooms! Additionally, the hotel is a bit far from most of the tourist stuff in Gyeongju. Still, a pleasant staff and a beautiful room overall...we were very happy to stay here and would again (in a bed!)

The manager rents 7 rooms in her lovely home. Ours was decorated in a typical American country style with a small kitchenette and bathroom with Western toilet and Korean shower. Breakfast American style can be delivered to your room; a bit expensive for what you get. This pension is very far from town and the rail and bus stations. There is a bus stop a 10-15 minute walk from the house, but no sidewalks and ditches on the side of tje road so watch your kids and your roll aboard suitcases. Mrs. Park often offers to drive you to or pick you up at the bus stop. She speaks some English and goes all out to try to help you have a great time. The important sights are very spread out. We recommend taking the city tour. Even though most of it is in Korean, there is enough information given in English and the transport from site to sure is efficient. You can see all the important historical sights in one day and will feel that you got your money's worth. Mrs. Park will set it up for you.

Tavo House is a family guest house business and I didn't know this when a booked but it turned out to be an excellent opportunity to interact with a Korean family. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee were great and their son was pretty cool too, I had some good conversations with him. and the grand mother is there too an interesting lady. On my last day, Mr Lee took me and other guest on an early morning (6AM) tour of some important places in the city. It was great. I highly recommend Tavo House.