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Great location, but the room are so dirty, especially the floor and under the bed. The toilet have unpleasant smell.

总结一下，以下是我的优缺点：

优点：

1. 性价比超高。位于首尔市中心，周边餐饮、市场、购物街等一应俱全。

2. 毛巾和卫生纸无限量供应，洗衣机和烘干机也一应俱全。一切都基于信任，这一点真的非常棒。

3. 收到了一些贴心的小纸条。

4. 与一些人的说法相反，尽管附近有一些活动，但总体来说非常安静。

缺点：

1. 房间有些脏（灰尘，尤其是电视机上），床底下有几个空瓶子。

2. 房间设施陈旧（瓷砖开裂发霉）。

正如前面提到的，如果重新粉刷一下，更换一下破损的瓷砖，房间就完美了。

我们四个人住在这个房间里，稍微整理一下就足够了，因为我们只用来睡觉。

房间状况糟糕透顶，天花板上长满了霉菌。为了让窗户通风，不得不把窗帘从墙上扯下来，导致天花板的碎片掉落。“床垫”放在一块木板上。
我背痛了一周，又因为臭虫痒了两周。
这个糟糕的地方需要卫生检查。
这个垃圾场应该立即关闭。

卧室和浴室对于三个人来说略显狭小。如果重新粉刷一下，看起来会更现代一些，但考虑到价格，对于过夜住宿来说完全够用。地理位置也非常好！

优点：提供耳塞、毛巾、卫生纸和旅行转换插头，而且可以自助入住，只需将房卡放在写有您名字的信封里即可。

Great spot to stay with cheap pricetag. It was a little rundown looking but that was a part of the vibe. Super homey and comfortable. Only negative thing is that the room didn't have good airflow and it was always musty when we got back to our room at night. Rooms are also very small and you can hear everything from the bathroom (which might wake you up at night).

If you’re really on a budget, this place is fine. Good location, cheap, unlimited towels which is a big plus in my book, nice community room setup, good hairdryer provided in the room.

However, I would NOT recommend staying with 4 people in a quadruple room, especially for more than a couple of nights. You won’t die, but it’s not a pleasant experience. The cleanliness leaves something to be desired: you’ll likely need to store your items under the bed due to limited space, but the amount of dust and mess under the bed is staggering (I don’t think it’s too difficult to keep a long vacuum and vacuum under the bed between guests?). The bathroom could use a deeper cleaning (some questionable stains), and the shower head holder is painfully flimsy, so you have to hold the shower head the whole time you shower. The bathroom sink was clearly clogged. There is limited to no shelving in the rooms and bathrooms, so it’s very difficult to accommodate the items of multiple people. The free laundry is awesome, but the washing machine drum needs a cleaning and the laundry room as a whole is extremely filthy. There are no face tissues or paper towels, so if you want to wipe something up you’ll have to buy your own.

Overall, I do feel like some pretty easy tweaks would make this place a 4 star rating. When you’re staying with multiple people in a cramped space for multiple days, you want to feel as clean as possible, and that’s not easily achievable here. Yes, it is a budget place so of course we don’t expect glamor, but it’s not unreasonable to expect a little more cleanliness (invest in a vacuum! Clean the mess in the laundry room!) and a little bit more common sense convenience (install some cheap detachable shelves in the bathrooms and bedrooms!)

The hostel makes it very clear that the building is old and to have low expectations. I stayed for a week and found it to be ok, as I went into it knowing not to expect a luxury experience. They have no elevator so I had to drag my suitcase up five flights of stairs to the roof, which sucked but I also knew that ahead of time. The room was probably as clean as it could be given the age of the building, but it just smelled awful. I tried opening windows but it didn't help unfortunately. You can also hear street noise throughout the night, and a few times I was scared awake by loud noises. The location is really good because you're in the center of the city. It was a little uncomfortable for me as a woman because it seemed like there were always groups of men standing around smoking after it got dark, not that I felt unsafe necessarily but I don't think I would stay here again.

$45/night - 4 people. I would hardly complain except the extent of the mold in the bathroom of room 401 is basically a health hazard. I noted the room number because not every room has a bathroom sheathed in mold. It’s the kind of bathroom that makes you feel more soiled from having showered in there. It’s the kind of bathroom that personally made me leave a prepaid room and genuinely EXCITED to shell out another $900 for a hotel down the street for the remaining nights.

-Things I wish I had known about: Possibility of excessive MOLD and the disgusting, THICK layer of urine stained caulk around the toilet. Generally, mold/grime all over the tiles and grout…. lots of dust and trash under the bed.. No elevator and 5 floors. If you’re lucky you would start at floor two, which might also be the noisiest. Thin pillow, thin comforter, and plastic covered thin mattress. Nauseating air freshener everywhere. Good community living rules in place but no enforcer around so the quality of your stay is dependent on the nature of your neighbors. Their keypad entry access codes are also stupidly easy to guess if you notice the pattern so security is nonexistent.

+ most aspects of the lodging is well thought out. Very IKEA decor. Nice blow dryer with strong wattage. Appreciate the converters, heaters, water boilers, water dispenser, noise absorbing flooring, keypad entry doors, and community room setup.