ibis Ambassador Seoul Insadong

The beds are comfortable and the staff helpful but sad there is no more shuttle bus and the selection at breakfast was average and not like in the past. Rooms were a good size and water pressure was good with a hand holdable shower rose very clean.

Clean, decent sized rooms. Friendly, helpful staff. Decent breakfast buffet. Perfect location. Walking distance to palaces & Ikseondong hanok village. Multiple convenience stores around & plenty of restaurants & cafes. Only negatives are the unreliable wifi & the weirdly positioned toilet aimed towards the shower so one foot ended up in the shower while using it.

Just love this place. The area is right. Insa dong is full of restaurants, antique dealers selling those last minute souvenirs. All open late, but the hotel is a quiet refuge amongst all the chaos in this so-called 'Land of the Morning Calm'. It's close to the royal palaces and a short taxi ride to the main street markets at Nam/ Dong Daemun. Friendly, helpful staff too. Recoomended!

Me and my wife stayed at this hotel for four nights during our excursion throughout Korea. The room was nice, spacious and clean and the staff was nice and helpful. The hotel is very well located near a nice shopping area and the Ikseondong hanok village, which gives you a wide range of possibilities for nice a night stroll or a traditional dinner. The view on the rooftop is wonderful. Unlike other hotels we used while in Korea, the Ibis as a good selection of food for breakfast even if you, like me, needs a light Western-style breakfast (not more than milk, coffee and a sandwich of some sort). It also has a wide selection of fruits, hot dishes and salads. Indeed a good choice if you go visit the city of Seoul.

I thought this hotel was very pleasant to stay at. It was quiet and very clean and had a desk by the window with a chair, small fridge (always useful), bottle of water, coffee and tea bags supplied in the room (though not the Western style tea my room-mate wanted but you can pick those up at breakfast) with a kettle and lots of usb and charging spots. The shower can be hand-held, the toilet was one of the fancy Korean style toilets that you could have the light on in the bowl so you don't need to turn on room lights at night. The buffet breakfast offered an excellent range of Korean and Western food, including hard-boiled eggs, chips, sausages, fried rice, kimchi, crab, varieties of fruit, etc. and the tables were well laid out. There were other facilities such as a gym, rooftop views, laundry and hot bath area but we were so busy that we didn't get to try them. However, of the three hotels I stayed at in Korea, it was by far, the smallest. The two single beds are just inches apart and the semicircular toilet / bathroom is also tiny. At peak times we had to wait for up to 10 minutes for elevators as they were packed (in Korea there doesn't appear to be stairs you could use as an alternative) but that also happened at some other hotels. That being said, the location in Iksundong / Insadong was absolutely great with the little alleyways with their restaurants and bars just across the street and more restaurants and excellent craft shops up a couple of blocks away. The major palaces are in walking distance. On our tour we stayed there twice, both times for two nights (so four nights in total). Once was at the start of the tour in last week of March and then when we returned in the first week of April. I looked forward to returning there.