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Situated in Central Seoul, The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun boasts modern accommodation with superior amenities. The numerous facilities this cosy hotel offers include a 24-hour reception, a lounge cafe and meeting and conference rooms. This unique hotel provides an on-site fitness centre, a safe and luggage storage. It also has a dry cleaning service, and a laundry service. The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun provides air conditioned rooms with slippers and a flat-screen TV. All have converters/voltage adaptors, a refrigerator and a private bathroom. To start the day, guests can wake up to breakfast served by The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun before heading off to see what the local region has to offer. Lunch and afternoon tea are available in the hotel's modern café. The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun is within walking distance of Doosan Group, Dongguk University and Dongdaemun Market. It is within walking distance of Dongdaemun History and Culture park Station, which allows for convenient access in and around Seoul. Also KAL LIMOUSINE BUS(#6702) stop by right in front of The Summit Hotel every 30min. You don't have to walk with your heavy baggage. Only 5 steps from the limousine bus door.
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HOTEL STYLE
Mid-range
Centrally Located
Languages Spoken
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Location
198, Jangchungdan-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul 04614 South Korea
Name/address in local language
The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
467 reviews
Getting there
Great for walkers
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We was stayed at The Summit hotel 2 nights during in South Korea, very conveniently located between metro stops and K limousine airport, it will stop front of hotel. We check in early morning with fast. All staff were friendly and very helpful. The bed room are confortable and great size mirror. Would stay here again
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Date of stay: April 2023
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:The reception are superb nice, helpful
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Summit hotel is in a great location- lots of shops and restaurants around, and a short walk to the subway (3 mins). I stayed in 5 hotels while in Korea and this was definitely one of the best! Comfortable beds, friendly staff, clean rooms and good service. Late checkout available charged by the hour. Bus to the airport is right out front. My only issue was the breakfast buffet. Very limited options for $20 per person. But as that is the only complaint I have, I'd call it a pretty successful stay!
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Date of stay: June 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with friends
Room Tip:Airport bus can come quite early. The timetable is displayed in the lobby so be sure to be...
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This hotel is very clean, staff are friendly and professional. The hotel is very close to many restaurants. I would recommend Summit Hotel to anyone who would want a short or long stay. I stayed at this hotel for 17 nights and i do not regret.My room was cleaned daily by respectful staff. I will definitely visit again
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Date of stay: September 2022
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Rooms were clean and comfortable. Overall it was a pleasant stay. The only complaint I have is the attitude of the male front desk employee. He was quite rude when I tried to check in. Furthermore, I was given a number to retrieve my luggage when I checked in at 3pm. But when I collected my bags early, he just snatched the slip of paper from me. Not a positive first impression for a visitor to Seoul.
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Date of stay: October 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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We stay here week ago,the place was nice...convenient and clean hotel. The location very close to Dongdaemun subway stations and also the bus stop. Not far from anywhere. The hotel staff are helpful and polite to serve the guests. Very recommended hotel to stay.
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Date of stay: August 2014
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Choose the room that facing the main street
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Response from Cindythemanager, 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 16 Aug 2014
Dear Teddy A Warm greetings from The Summit Hotel Seoul. Thank you very much for taking the time to leave us a Valuable review. We are very glad that you enjoyed our service and accommodation. Our team will continue to strive to be the most preferred place to stay in Seoul to both business and leisure guests at all times. We hope to see you again in the near future. Sincerely Cindy Lim The Summit Hotel Seoul.
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Do not stay in the Basement room LL without window. Stayed on 29/3/2015-31/3/2015. Room is so stuffy that the temperature had gone up to 29 degree. Make a complain to the front desk but they kept telling you central aircon cannot adjust, cant do anything, they can only provide a stand fan for you. Day 2 31/3/2015 room temperature gone up to 32 degree, this is bad experience when u have to paid and sleep in a 32 degree temperature. Again and again When all the staff telling you that they cannot do anything???? Make a very serious complain to their Manager Mr Sean and finally a 3hour room change and a one night waive upon request by me.
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Date of stay: March 2015
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Trip type: Travelled with friends
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Response from 김희준, 프론트 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 11 Apr 2015
Dear Journey30 This is Sean Kim from Summit Hotel Seoul. How was your tour in Korea after Summit Hotel left? Hope that everything was perfect and gave you satisfaction. We met and talked about this matter. Once again, sincerely apologize for the inconveniences that we have caused you regarding Cooling & Heating System problem. At that times, there was big temperature differences between day and night.(about 10 degree) So we were in big trouble about this matter. Some of guest complain dut to cold at night. Some of guest complain due to hot like you. Once again, my apologies on behalf of the management and i will continue in our improved efforts to provide excellent service and products. Thank you very much Best regards
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This hotel is super convenient. The airport bus stops at its doorsteps, and it is located about 200 meters from two subway stations. There are many local restaurants near by. Highly recommend the Twosome place across the road. It is located on the second floor, so it is easy to miss. There is also a very local BBQ/Korean diner which is across the street also, but in the direction away from the dongdaemun shopping district. It is located behind the "worlds liquor" store or some similar name. It was so good, we actually went there TWICE and had their BBQ pork.
I stayed by myself and I have to echo one of the other reviewers that it was missing the body lotion. Seoul is VERY dry. I think it is available on request. I know my friend who stayed with her family received the lotion, but not the single rooms by the lifts. Summit Hotel - please kindly take note.
Otherwise, I have no other issue with this hotel. Very friendly and helpful staff.
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Date of stay: April 2017
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from summitseoul, 프론트 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 9 May 2017
Dear anncc111 Warm greeting from Summit Hotel Seoul. Thank you for taking your valuable time to leave your review on Tripadvisor. As you commented, we will note and have meeting with the head of each department about your advice. We provide the guest who stay at Deluxe twin, Royal twin, Triple room type with body lotion. not standards but we provide upon request even if you stay at standard double room. We will check and decide to provide in dry seasons. Also, I am really appreciated that you had good stay with our staffs. Once again, thank you very much and look forward to service you again soon. Best regards.
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- The hotel is clean as according to Korean Standard.
- Small room as like hotel in Hong Kong. - A far walking distance to Subway station and convenience store! - There are no convenience store nearby the hotel! - The staff is not friendly, not willing to assist as I not sure how to use the printer in the basement..as it wrote in Korean words! (poor service) -View from the room, nothing to look~~
- Conclusion: Average...not that good! it like 3 stars services....
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Date of stay: October 2015
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Higher floor will be better...
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Response from summitseoul, 프론트 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 18 Oct 2015
Dear super183 Greeting from The Summit Hotel Seoul. Thank you very much for taking your time to share your feedback with us through Trip Advosor. We also appreciate that you have given us another opportunity to address your concern. I would like to apologise for the disappointing stay you had with us. I will share your feedback with all our team member and will try to improve our service quality. Please accept our apology and do not hesitate to let me know if i can be of any assistance to you anytime. Only one thing that i would like to say is taht convenient store is only 2min. away from our hotel. Maybe you could not know the direction. And the subway station is 180M away from the our hotel. so you might feel that it is too far if you have heavy luggages with you. Thank you very much Best regards
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We are a family of 4 with 2 teenagers travelling to Seoul for 10 days We chose this hotel as it has a room that can sleep 4 person, the prices are within our budget and it safe us the hassle of dragging the luggage along the road.
Location KAL Bus Limousine 6702 stop right in front of the hotel, ok the hotel is by the roadside. It took about an hour to reach the hotel from Incheon Airport. Along the way, we passed by some nice hotel. From the hotel entrance, turn right- the station its just 180m away from exit 9 of Line 2 (nearer to Lotte Fitin) and its connected to 3 subway stations line (dongdaemun history and culture park station, Line 2,4,5) with around 5-10 min walk. Dongdaemun Station - Line 1 is further up nearer to Doota. Hence all the train stations are within walking distance from the hotel. Turn left from the hotel ~ around 200m, you will reach Dongik Uni Stn - Line 3.
Do note that Summit Hotel is the starting point to Incheon airport and the last bus leaves the hotel at 1834hrs so getting a seat is not a problem
Check-in/Check-out and Room. We booked through Expedia.sg and booking was confirmed by Expedia. Check-in was simple and straight forward. We stayed at a 2x double bedroom for 9 nights on the 8th floor facing the main road. The view is ok. The bed is a bit too soft to our liking but its comfortable. We had 2 x big luggage and 1 cabin luggage. The room is a bit small for 4 pax but all functional and clean. Staffs are friendly, professional and able to communicate in English. The toiletries do not include toothbrush & paste, however you can request from the front desk if you forgot to bring yours. If you need sugar for your coffee do request from front desk. Do remember to check under the bed as we notice some paper left below.
Request for late check out and was granted until 1pm, not sure if there is a porter service but was informed by the front desk that we have to self help with the luggage trolley. Check out was fast and simple and I left the luggage with the hotel until the last bus to airport at 1834hrs. Wifi is free and at times slow; depends on the time you use
Shopping, Convenient store & Banking There are 2 convenient stores around the hotel, One is opposite the hotel, G25 , another one is a Korean minimart store (behind GG building) where they sell more things, There is also a "tous les jours" coffee outlets beside the hotel (both closes at 11pm). Connected to the hotel is a Woori Bank ATM machine where you can withdrawal cash if required
Along the road to the shopping area are sports shops where you can find, tennis, badminton, baseball stuff. Dongdaemun design plaza and some shopping malls, Lotte fitin, Good Morning City, aPm Place, Migliore and so on are nearby. Some store closes after 2am so if you cannot sleep just go window shopping. Enjoy!!!!
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Date of stay: June 2016
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Higher floor, facing the main road view is ok
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Response from summitseoul, 프론트 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 15 Jun 2016
Dear yhfoo Warm greeting from Summit Hotel Seoul. Thank you for staying with us. I am really impressed that you explained about our hotel very perfectly. I am sure that so many traveler will read your review and decide. One thing that i need to say is about WIFI. We are in construction for better quality of WIFI. So you will be satisfied if you choose our hotel again for next visit. Once again, thank you for your review and look forward to service you again in near future. Thank you very much.
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I reviewed dozens of hotels prior to visiting Seoul and am very pleased with The Summit Hotel!! Front desk staff very friendly , spoke English and takes care of their guests eg:(by giving them a card with hotel address/phone number written in Korean, so taxi's can take you home without getting lost). The hotel room was spacious, very cold AC that you have control over, beds were comfy, American style tub/shower combo instead of the whole bathroom getting wet with old traditional showers, large wall mounted flat screen tv and great views from out window. They also have a very impressive buffet style breakfast, not a cheap continental. The breakfast had many types of bread, 4 types cereal, eggs, sausage, corn, kimchi etc...(too many options to mention). We also had an in room safe, which you made your own password. Another wonderful item was they had some American 110 plugs!! I had purchased two converters prior to the vacation, but did not need them. Many restaurants, cultural sites and shopping malls, just 3-4 blocks from hotel. The Summit Hotel is a Great Hotel for a Great Price!!! Will stay then again when we return.
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Date of stay: August 2014
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Our room was wonderful. We were on the 6th floor. All rooms looked good.
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Response from Cindythemanager, 매니저 at The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun
Responded 16 Aug 2014
Warm greetings from The Summit Hotel Seoul. I would like to express my sincere appreciation of sharing your valuable comments. It is very heartwarming to learn that your stay was enjoyable. Thank you so much for enjoying our facilities, amenities and services during your stay with us. Your great comments have created such an encouragement for all of our associates. Learning how our guests enjoyed while staying with us brings excitement for us to push ourselves further for continuously improving our services. Once again, we truly thank you for your wonderful feedback and look forward to many opportunities to make each stay relaxing and enjoyable! Sincerely Cindy Lim The Summit Hotel Seoul.
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HI, I have no idea how much the services cost. We did not use the services. You can go to the hotel website and email them directly. We had no time to use their facilities because we travelled the city from morning till evening.
hi , the hotel is located in Dongdaemun area . it's not closed to the university but i think you can take subway to there. please check google map. thankx
I am so sorry for answering you late...
The limo bus is abt KRW16,000/pax i think. the drop of point is the last and first to pick up. so you will end up going round round mary go round. it was quite tiring. if you have 4-5 ppl. it's worth take taxi instead.i think it's 100k
"I wouldn't recommend basement rooms as the wifi connection is terrible! I didn't notice I would be staying at basement as I simply went ahead with the room type of lowest rate. I would have topped up a little bit to stay in a room with proper wifi connection. Everything else is pretty good though."
There are more places to choose from in the Seoul area.
PRICE RANGE
S$125 - S$243 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
South KoreaSeoulGwanghui-dong / Jung-gu
NUMBER OF ROOMS
190
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