Let’s start with the positives - the hotel was clean, large, great facilities and fabulous roof top pool. It’s a couple of streets away from Haeundae Beach and about a 5-10 minute walk from the main Haeundae Metro line. Staff were friendly, and check in was simple. Room service was quick and the food was as you’d expect from a hotel.
Now the negative. We booked a “Standard King Room with City View” as the photos looked nice, which turned out more like a “… Room with a Construction View”. There is an apartment complex being built behind the hotel with noise and piling rigs from 07:00-16:00ish every day - and to be honest not the best to open the curtains to construction workers. The noise was so bad that upon check in we asked for another room, to which we were going to be placed on the same side of the construction, so had to pay an additional 240,000 KRW for a room at the front of the hotel (which was conveniently all sea view and therefore means premium). Unfortunately the new room was only available 4/5 nights available, so there was inconvenience with moving around so much, and meant we were back in the rear of the hotel on our last night - but thankfully the construction had been boarded (which didn’t stop the noise).
If this has been made clear at the time of booking, and we’d realise we’d have to pay for an upgrade (so upgrade + hotel price), we wouldn’t have booked here at all and turned out an expensive stay for the money. Deeply disappointing.