HOTEL THE BOTANIK SEWOON MYEONGDONG

23-1 Eulji-ro 19-gil, Jung District, Myeong-dong, Seoul, South Korea

Myeong-dong, Seoul - 0,2 km to center

Seoul

Updated on 28/06/2025

Check-in / Check-out

  • Check-in Time 15:00
  • Check-out Time 12:00

Reviews

8.7

Review Score

Has 12349 reviews on Agoda

Cleanliness - 9.1

Facilities - 9.1

Location - 9.1

Service - 8.6

Room Quality - 9.0

10.0 Clean and functional home away from home - Danli 25-06-2025

Review: The suite room was a good size with 2 separate bedrooms, living area, dining/kitchen area, everything was new and clean. The room was equipped with a separate washer and dryer, and an airdresser that can be used to steam clothes. Its around a 10-15 min walk from Myeongdong food street and 5 min from Eulijiro 3 station. Gwangjang Market is 10-15min walk away in the other direction.

10.0 Our family had a great time to stay here. - Anh 10-06-2025

Positive points: 1. Room is very new, clean & modern which fully equipped with Laundry/Dryer & Air Dresserrn2. Staff is so friendly & supportivern3. Location: really convinient, just take 3 mins walking to station

9.6 Amazing - Brittney 25-06-2025

Review: The hotel staff were so helpful, the room was spacious and clean. Bed was comfortable and the room had a full size refrigerator.

8.0 Great hotel, some minor problems - Harvey 01-06-2025

Positive points: The room felt clean and there were many available resources like a kettle, freezer, and washer dryer. The hotel room is very stylish and impressive. It's smaller than you'd think, but they maximize the space well. I enjoyed experiencing the location to a certain extent, but my situation was a bit unique. It seems like the hotel location is usually fine.

Negative points: I thought I had paid for breakfast with my reservation, but I didn't receive any meal vouchers and ended up paying for breakfast by the day. Also, there was a building fire next to the hotel, and I would have liked some direct reassurance from the hotel that we were safe within the building. Also, there was a big difference in quality between the two bedrooms in my reservation. I was not aware of this upon booking. The toilet and the shower were separated by a glass pane, but the sealant around the glass was deteriorating so some water leaked into the toilet area.

8.0 Very good - Santi 24-06-2025

Review: Kamar bersih dan nyamannSarapan pagi standardnakses jalan masuk melalui daerah yang masih pembangunan tetapi akses cukup baik dan terang.

9.0 Overall great stay and cool amenities - AMBER 31-05-2025

Positive points: Lovely hotel with smart design

Negative points: There was a fire night to my room. That was pretty scary…

8.4 New Hotel with Big Rooms - Edmund 24-06-2025

Review: While the location is not in Myeongdong shopping area, it is 1 train station away, and takes about 15 min by foot. The room is spacious, and equipped with washing machine and dryer.

10.0 Very much enjoyed a long stay, but an outfitted kitchen and microwave would have been useful. - Ronald 19-05-2025

Positive points: We stayed in a premier twin room that had a kitchen, stacked washer/dryer and separated sleeping space. The storage and amenities were excellent. The buffet breakfast was satisfying but lacked variety during our 11-day stay.

Negative points: Although we did not intend to prepare meals, a microwave would have been useful for an 11-day stay. The kitchen looked totally new and had never been used because there are no utensils, glassware or cookware, just bare cabinets.

10.0 Highly recommended! - Danny 23-06-2025

Review: This hotel feels like a highend apartment. The location is less than 5 minutes from a subway station and is close enough to the heart of Myeongdong without being in it directly. I prefer that even though it ends up being a 10-15 minute walk. The staff are very friendly as well. It’s also right along the beautiful river walk and the bridge way known for its old school electronics. Burnt Seoul cafe is just a couple minutes walk and is one of my favorite places for bakery items in the morning. The top floor garden view is amazing with views of Seoul Tower and is a great place to enjoy a nightime snack or drink (bring your own!) You won’t regret staying here at the Botanik Sewoon. We plan on booking again when we come back to Seoul.

8.0 New great hotel, clean and in a good location. Staff are helpful and washing machine in room is so convenient - DANAH 07-05-2025

Positive points: It was very new and comfortable, modern and stylish although the rooms looked bigger in the pictures

Negative points: The rooms were smaller in real life

10.0 Safe and Clean - Shuxian 23-06-2025

Review: Good location that is not too far from the action but not too close that it is noisy. Good amenities including gym, washing machine and clothes easy care machine. nRoom is clean and staff are helpful.

9.0 Good facilities - Lillian 20-04-2025

Positive points: Hotel The Botanik nI like to be fair in my reviews, so here we go. nI will tell the good, the bad and the ugly about this hotel. nFirst the good: this is a very new hotel, very spacious, extremely clean lots of storage space. The bed was comfortable with crispy clean white sheets, the floor was heated, the train station is near by. nIt has a kitchen, a fridge, a wine cooler, lots of cabinets space as well as closet space, a washing machine. Nice and ample bathroom. It has a balcony although ours faced another very close building. The stuff was very kind and helpful. They held our luggage for several hours at not charge. nnThe Bad: in spite of what I wrote before this hotel lacks basic amenities. In the kitchen the only utensils are Two wine glasses, two coffee cups, a wine opener and two teaspoons, nothing else. nThere were two sachets of coffee as well as Tea but no machines to make it, not sugar or substitute either.nIn the bathroom I would have love to have some hand cream at least, there were of course shampoo, conditioner and shower gel. nnNow the Ugly: This may be just my taste but I find this building extremely odd looking, it seems to have been built behind another building. nThe furniture could be better. nI didn’t care much for the area in general, part of it looks like one of those dilapidated old neighborhoods that are experiencing a renaissance. In fact there seems be a lot construction going on around the building, but the area is quiet and we didn’t hear any noise during our stay.

Negative points: The lack of amenities in the room.

10.0 Perfect place like home - lorena 23-06-2025

Review: The hotel is clean and nice. The room size is big.The location is perfect. I love that around the hotel are walkable charming coffee shops and restos. Myeongdong cathedral is walking distance. This will be my hotel of choice now whenever we visit Seoul.

2.0 Uncomfortable - Fatimah 18-04-2025

Positive points: Nothing

Negative points: I had a very unpleasant experience at this hotel and felt it was important to share.nnUpon check-in, I was given a room that was clearly not cleaned properly. The tables were dirty and dusty, and there was a very bad smell in the room. I contacted the front desk and requested a room change. They asked me to wait while they arranged a cleaner room.nnOnce I was moved to the new room, I was shocked when another guest opened my door with their key card. It turned out the front desk had mistakenly assigned the same room to someone else due to their system not being updated. This was extremely uncomfortable and made me feel very unsafe.nnI escalated the issue to Booking.com, and after their involvement, the hotel offered me a complimentary upgrade to a suite and promised enhanced cleaning service. I accepted, hoping things would improve.nnUnfortunately, the next day I found a smoking tool left in the room – I don’t smoke. When I reported it, the staff casually said it was probably left by the cleaning team and brushed it off. One staff member even said, “What more do you want? I gave you an upgrade. Why are you still complaining?” – which I found dismissive and unprofessional.nnDue to the repeated issues and poor customer service, I checked out early and moved to another hotel. I would not recommend this hotel based on my experience.

10.0 Hotel the Botanik - Lee 23-06-2025

Review: Hotel the Botanik is excellent! Its location has access to many tourist attractions, it is very well maintained, and the staff are highly attentive to your needs. I truly recommend choosing this hotel.

9.0 Will stay there again. - Alexander 16-04-2025

Positive points: Location, room plan and overall service has been great (they even booked a few places for us).

Negative points: They could not for some reason replace our electric kettle that was working, but did turn off on its own ever (we had to turn it off ourselves)

9.2 Everything is great except the location - Simin 23-06-2025

Review: The hotel is new. It comes equipped with washing machine and dryer. Service is great. It takes about 5 mins walk to mrt but to not as near to Myeongdong as I thought. Otherwise is a great stay!

10.0 Great - Tomoki 15-04-2025

Positive points: Good location to access to where to visit. We used suite room for 4 persons, and the room was very clean. I recommend this hotel when you visit Korea.

10.0 A Highlight of our Seoul Vacation - Ping 23-06-2025

Review: This hotel honestly blew us away with the facilities they had their rooms were really clean and felt so new. The room had an oven with a microwave function, a washing machine (no detergent provided so you'd have to bring your own, or just get one packet for 1000KRW at the reception). Most impressively, there was an airdresser as a quick, easy alternative to washing our clothes every day. Coming home smelly from the BBQ spots we visited, this was such a quality of life feature to remove the odour from our clothes, making it feel fresh again!! nnCheck-in and check-out were really easy, with self-check in/out machines provided as well. nnLocation wise, the hotel is SO convenient to all the places we wanted to visit in Seoul Gwangjang market is a short 5-10min walk away Myeongdong is a direct bus/train (or you could honestly walk there too) places like Anguk, Seongsu, COEX Mall (World Trade Center) are situated on the same train line in which Hotel Botanik is at. The buses here take like less than 7min to arrive which is so impressive.nnThere's the Incheon Limousine bus that takes you to Hotel Kukdo, and is a 5min walk away from Hotel Botanik. nnOverall this hotel was such an accessible, clean and luxurious accommodation!! This hotel was definitely more than just a place to stay during our trip - it was one of the highlights of this visit to Seoul!

8.0 Good - Caroline 12-04-2025

Positive points: The staff were multilingual and addressed all our requests quickly. The breakfast was good and affordable. The place was clean and the in room washer and dryer/sanitizer was a life saver. They gave water bottles to us daily.

Negative points: The cleaners did clean, but not 100% clean. The shower floor had some pink (not sure what it is) on the sides and corner. The drain also didn't drain as quickly as I would like so my feet were sitting in an inch of water while showering.

Location

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Airports

  • Gimpo Airport (GMP) : 17.1 km
  • Seoul Incheon International Airport (ICN) : 49.8 km

Public transportation

  • Euljiro 4 Station : 270 m 5 min walk
  • Jongno 3 Station : 390 m

Hospital or clinic

  • Pharmacy : 430 m

Shopping

  • Myeong-Dong Walking Street : 1.1 km

Convenience store

  • On-site :

Cash withdrawal

  • ATM : 720 m

Popular landmarks

  • Insadong : 1.1 km
  • Myeong-Dong Walking Street : 1.1 km
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex : 1.3 km
  • Bukchon Hanok Village : 1.4 km
  • Namdaemun Market : 1.8 km
  • N Seoul Tower : 1.9 km
  • Gyeongbokgung Palace : 2.1 km
  • The War Memorial of Korea : 3.9 km
  • National Museum of Korea : 5.0 km
  • Lotte World : 11.1 km

Nearby landmarks

  • Sae Woon Electronics Department : 180 m
  • Eulji-ro : 220 m
  • Euljiro 4 Station : 270 m
  • Jump Theathre : 360 m
  • Euljiro 3 Station : 380 m
  • Jongno 3 Station : 390 m
  • Pharmacy : 430 m
  • Gwangjang Market : 480 m
  • Jungbu Market : 500 m
  • Sejong (Parking Lot) : 520 m