Gwanganli Hotel Ocean View

It's an odd place. The hotel takes up just 2 floors in a tall building with other "hotels" on other floors. The room was nice enough but the bed was hard and definitely DO NOT pay extra for the weak coffee and wonder bread and jam breakfast. It is in a great location.

It was a perfect location for Gwangalli Beach. However, it was really hard to find as the signage was not obvious. I walked around the buildings for 30 minutes trying to find it, and if they had simply put instructions on the web site or in an email as to where the entrance was, it would have saved me all that trouble. Don’t be fooled by the pictures of the room for the terrace half ocean view. The photos were taken before the building next door was built because the view in the photos does not exist. You do see a partial bridge view between two buildings. However, the terrace also has a large a/c unit taking up the side view, so again, the photos do not represent the actual view or experience. I didn’t use the terrace, even though that is why I booked that room. It was very deceptive and disappointing. For a good view, there are better views of the beach, even though there isn’t a terrace. The room is very small and the photos make it look much bigger. The tv is poorly situated so that if you want to walk to the window or other side of the bed or the little table, you have to squeeze and duck at the foot of the bed, while trying not to hit your back on the tv. The only towels they provide are hand towel size, so if you want or need a bath towel size, plan to bring your own. The room was fine for sleeping, but you wouldn’t plan for a relaxing stay in the room…it’s just not designed for that. But if you need a place to stay in a prime location, this works.

We had lovely ocean views, but the overall experience was disappointing. The staff were quite unfriendly. Although they spoke no English, we attempted our basic Korean, and smiled every time we walked past reception, but they ignored us and did not react. When we had requests, we communicated via Google Translate, but every question we had was met with a disgruntled face. One afternoon at around 4pm, our room had still not been cleaned, and I kindly asked whether they could empty our rubbish bin (which was overflowing), and the staff were very rude. They were clearly speaking rudely about us in Korean, pointing, throwing their arms around. I tried to smile, and they return angry faces. They also didn’t supply normal sized towels, only hand towels. When we requested normal bath towels they said there was a problem with them, but after our 4 night stay, we never saw a bath towel anywhere. Unfortunately I wouldn’t stay here again if I was to return to Busan.

Right next to everything

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