Yu Ken Patrick
February 29, 2024
I stayed temporarily in Chuncheon for one night and chose OST. The location is close to the city center and I hope it will be more convenient to find food... This hotel is quite difficult to find. I took a taxi from Chuncheon Station and the driver was not sure. Due to communication difficulties, The driver failed to set his GPS to the hotel, so he used my mobile phone's GPS navigation and asked the driver to drive to the hotel. You have to turn from the main street and go down an alley to get there. It's not easy to find!
This hotel feels like a "motel with no reception". The small reception window is closed, and you have to knock before anyone will respond! As soon as he told me my name, he immediately gave me the room key (no identification was checked!) and let me go to the room without saying anything. The room is large enough (this should not be an exception in a small town like this), and has a table, chair and basic facilities, but the bathroom is not separated from wet and dry! There is no bathtub, bath screen, or shower curtain. Taking a bath will definitely make the entire bathroom floor soaked. There are no hooks or shelves inside to put clothes or towels, which is very inconvenient! Forget it, at this price, in this small town, it doesn’t matter if you just spend one night casually.
I went to find a restaurant nearby for dinner. Google Maps showed that there were many restaurants nearby. I thought it would not be difficult to find food... When I went out for a walk, I found that many of them were not open (a weekday evening after the Chinese New Year). They were all authentic small shops. Occasionally 1. There were a lot of people in two restaurants, so we chose one that was almost full and tried to go in. Unexpectedly, the boss said "No" tonight. We didn't know the specific reason, but he probably booked a private reservation. We had no choice but to keep looking, and finally found a restaurant with several tables of food, which seemed okay, so we went in. It turned out to be fried chicken too, with a little more seasoning changes... The proprietress was very nice, and she could barely understand the simple menu on the wall using Google Translate. She ordered a chicken dish and ramen. It tastes pretty good, just ask them not to add spicy food, it’s still spicy and kids can’t handle it!
The last thing I want to talk about is the free simple buffet breakfast that the hotel claims to provide. It provides simple bread, toast, wheat bran, milk/juice, apples/bananas, etc. on the basement floor, all self-service. We saw the notice on the wall and were happy not to have to scramble outside to find breakfast the next morning. In the morning, I went down to the basement level and saw the breakfast laid out. It was almost exactly the same as the one in the picture. It was great! However, the breakfast area in the basement has no heating at all! ! In the hotel, we didn't expect that the heating would be turned off. I didn't wear a thick coat, so I had to finish breakfast quickly while resisting the cold. It was an unforgettable experience.
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