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Sarangchae Home Stay Review, Gyeongju
The outside of the building at Sarangchae Home Stay. The bathroom is at the end.
We stayed at Sarangchae Home Stay. We stayed in a tradiditional ondol-style room – basically this means the small room had a thin mattress on the floor, a fan, and nothing else. Just a 30 foot walk from our room, the shared shower facility was clean, but very very small with nowhere to leave dry clothes – the setup just didn’t make too much sense.
Finding the hotel is a little difficult – we managed to hug the walls of the park, and there was a little sign pointing us there. Our GPS helped us find it in the evening, when we came at it from a totally different direction in the dark.
The owners were very helpful with planning our day – especially given how little time we had there. There was free fast internet in the common room. Again, eggs, toast and jam were provided, and there were lots of travellers to swap stories with.
Entry to Sarangchae Home Stay
There is a convenience store just down the street. The location is very quiet, and extremely convenient to the park and buses to get out to the sights around Gyeongju.
Our Ondol room at Sarangchae Home Stay
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we are a couple of 52 and 57 years with our 25 years old daughter and you like to coss 2 days at home the 25 and 26th April 2009
I hope your positive answer
thank you
cordially for Odile
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Comment by JOUVELIN ODILE — March 19, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
bonsoir,
comment faire pour réserver 2 chambres dans cet endroit qui nous convient à ravir
je n’arrive pas à trouver
j’ai fais un mail : shilla7@chollian.net mais pas eu de réponse
merci de votre aide
amicalement
ODILE
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Wendy replied on March 19th, 2009 7:58 pm:
Bonjour Odile!
On est désolé, mais on n’a aucune idée comment faire une réservation chez l’hôtel Sarangchae. On n’a pas eu des problèmes en trouver des chambres libres a la dernière minute. On est-allé toujours a un des bureaux du tourisme qui sont partout en Corée. Ils ont téléphone pour nous parce-que il n’ya pas beaucoup du monde qui parle anglais, même dans les hôtels. Mais, il parait qu’il y a toujours quelqu’un qui travaille chez les bureaux du tourisme qui parle anglais. Bonne chance !
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Comment by JOUVELIN ODILE — March 19, 2009 @ 1:25 pm
hello,
my friends and i wanted to find a nice and cute place to stay in Gyeongju–we don’t care about the comforts as much as we are looking for something that is interesting/fun. i’ve come across this homestay several times in my research but i can’t find a phone number or website or even a map for how to get there. do you have any more information about this? also, how much did it cost to stay there?
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Ian replied on May 25th, 2009 7:06 am:
We got a map from the tourist office as soon as we got there. It was about a 20 minute walk from bus station. They also called for us and confirmed the reservation we had sort-of made over the phone. We originally called them from the number in our Lonely Planet, I believe it’s the same number that is listed in the Frommers at http://www.frommers.com/destinations/gyeongju/4011010027.html 054/773-4868. They list the email address as shilla7 AT chol.com but I’m not sure that works. The price was cheap.
If you have trouble – just go to any tourist office when you get to Korea and they will call for you and book it. They make it so easy and speak great English (and love to practice it!)
Good luck!
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Comment by Mary — May 25, 2009 @ 1:50 am