Mangrove Sinseol

The room was clean, and the bed was nice and comfortable. And I like the fact that the hotel uses regular size dispensers for soaps in the bathroom instead of wasteful single-use items. The hotel is close to the Shinseoldong subway station, which is conveniently on three subway lines (though the station itself is a confusing maze). Checking in and out was convenient, and the hotel sent a text message with check-in info (nice if you arrive late and the front desk is closed).

Mangrove Sinseol is a nice structure, aimed primarly at people needing medium term stay. Rooms average size, featuring lots of shelves and a nice desk (furniture is meant for people who might need to work there). Common areas include laundries and common kitchen every other floor, as well as a gym in the basement and a wonderful common room with two terraces on the top floor. the automated coin-locker at ground floor is super convenient: can keep your luggage up to 7 days and the price is less than half what you would pay in any locker at a train station. Location is a bit out of the city centre, but is straight over Sinseol station on line 1 - linking to Seoul Station

i stayed in both sinseol and dongdaemun branches and they are very different. for sinseol, i think they focused on the details a lot. staff are super nice and friendly. my room was right near the kitchen which was super convenient. the kitchen has mostly everything you need and was clean. the room was fairly clean, but i did find that if you look closely it wasn't spotless. air conditioning kept me cool. for one person the room is very spacious. library and community spaces were also nice to visit, i often spent some nights before going to bed in the library to relax and look at some books. there is a subway station and bus stop right in front of the building which was really nice and convenient. although you have to buy detergent (the one i bought from the mangrove store wasn't very good) you can you use washing machine and dryer as many times as you want. the dryer was amazing, it would dry my clothes in an hour or so which is convenient.

Very affordable and good value for your money, would definitely return here on future trips! :)

I had a lot of questions for the staff and they were gracious and helpful. I appreciated that so much. I loved the whole vibe. The kitchen, the laundry and the close proximity to restaurants and cafes as well as excellent transport links to almost everywhere in Seoul! I truly enjoyed my stay.