Hotel Skypark Central Myeongdong 1 is a hotel chain that belongs to the Skypark Hotel Group. Skypark Hotel Group is a Korean business hotel chain group that aims to offer their hotel guests the maximum satisfaction while charging them affordable prices. The hotel chain emphasizes on convenience, cleanliness and safety to ensure that their hotel guests are able to rest safely and comfortably. Let me share with you the pros and cons Hotel Skypark Central Myeongdong has to offer to you as a business traveller or a leisure traveller.
Hotel Skypark Central Myeongdong 1 is located about 250m away from the Euljiro 1-ga station on Seoul Subway Line 2. The hotel is also located in the middle downtown of Myeongdong which is very convenient for shopping, eating and entertainment. It only takes about 7 minutes’ walk to Lotte Department Store and about 10 minutes’ walk to the Myeongdong main shopping district . Namdaemun market is just about 15 minutes’ walk away
- The hotel is located about 40 kilometres drive away from Gimpo International Airport by car
- The hotel provides shuttle services to several places of interest in Seoul City
- From the hotel, you can also access the Seoul Post Office, money changers, Shinsegae Department Store, UNIQLO, Olive Young, LLYOD Bank, Woori Bank, Noonsquare, Myeongdong Theater
- The airport bus stop and limousine service is located nearby to the hotel
- The service staffs can speak different foreign languages including English, Japanese and Mandarin
- The service staffs are cheerful, friendly, helpful, professional, accommodating, polite, kind, warm and willing to go out of the way to assist you
- The hotel provides luggage storage facilities and 24-hours safety deposit box facilities while laundry services can be requested by the hotel guests with extra charges
- There is also a 24-hours reception and business center for business travellers to get their work done
- Breakfast buffet is served daily at the in-house restaurant and they offer Korean, Asian and European choices
- The rooms are clean, quite spacious and modern
- Each room comes with a bed, air-conditioning system, heating system, high-speed internet access, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a minibar and a safe
- The high- speed internet access is stable and fast
- Each bathroom comes with a bathtub, a shower, bathrobe, slippers, shampoo, conditioner and shower gel
Cons
- Certain hotel guests that stayed here experienced bad customer service and double standards treatment from the service staffs
- The waiting time for the elevators can be as long as 7 to 8 minutes due to its dated control program
- The housekeeping department requires more training because some of the hotel guests were woken up by housekeeping early in the morning and having their rooms accessed with a master card by the housekeeper despite putting up the Do Not Disturb sign
- Certain hotel rooms have no windows and it can be very stuffy, dusty and some people may find it claustrophobic
- As the air-conditioning system is centralized, guests are not able to adjust the temperature and this makes the situation worse in the rooms without windows
- Some of the hotel guests found room rate per night to be expensive
- Some of the hotel guests mentioned that the room size is still a little bit small while others said that the size of the bathroom is small
