We spent 8 days in South Korea for my nephew's wedding in early Nov. 2011. The last part of our trip was in Seoul staying for 3 nights at the Marriott Seoul Times Square, and it was a perfect ending for a trip.

I've stayed at various Ritz Carlton & Four Seasons hotels, and this one had a 5-star feeling about it from the comfort of the hotel room, the quality of service, and the breakfast restaurant. It's also connected to a large, upscale shopping center.

While it isn't in the center of town, taxi rides are relatively cheap and we liked the location.

I have already stayed several times at this fairly new hotel and the attention of all staff is excellent. And still outstanding is the service at the executive lounge. Great location, too.

I stayed here for 6 days for business.
It is not located in the city center, so you need transportation to get to the interesting parts of Seoul. At the time I visited Seoul, my collegue from LG Display choose this hotel, because it was close to his home, so we could meet up and go and explore Seoul. In the weekend he showed me a few nice places: Myeongdong, the Changdeokgung palace and Insadong. So there is plenty for me to go and see for a next trip. Unfortunately the rest of my trip was work work work. Breakfast was very good.

The hotel is located next to the Time Square shopping mall, where there are plenty of shopping and eating possibilities.

For the voyeurs: from the garden at the top, you can catch a glipse of the red-light district of Seoul...

stayed for a night in executive room(15th fl I think). a modern room for two people, but bottom line, it's a typical business hotel with good value. in my opinion, it's far better than Marriott Courtyard hotels I stayed in US.

Internet- it's for a fee, but if you have Marriott membership(it's free to join), you can use internet for free. I figured a brand name hotel would charge me for internet, so I was pleasantly surprised

Location- I feel ambivalent about this. The location was very close to Yeongdeungpo metro station (less than 5 min walk- connected via underground tunnel). While it's close to major business area, but it's somewhat away from touristy place (i.e palaces, etc)- 30 minutes I say. Also, I had a problem finding the hotel. It's right above Times Square mall (Shinsaegae Department), and there are only two elevators out of many that lead to the hotel. (it's not connected through escalator). It wasn't that confusing b/c I'm Korean, but I can see my friends getting lost easily. A word of caution- when you come out of the Yeongdeungpo metro station, the big Marriott Hotel you see from afar is NOT Courtyard Marriott. It's different one. Go straight to Shinsaegae Dept instead.

View- don't expect good view. I don't know what else to say.

Value- I think for a hotel in Seoul with such room quality, it's an exceptional value.

Hm. I would stay again since 1) I'm not that interested in touristy place, 2) I figured out how to get to the hotel 3) I care little about night view.