hotel review
hotel june downtown souel south korea
nested in the heart of neon city lays the tiny little june hotel, which looks very cute and attractive as you check in to the small lobby, friendly staff, not to many tripping over themselves or cluttering up the halls, just a couple of good looking smartly dressed types who efficiently fill out the paperwork and give you your key.
i ride the lift up and down, play with the buttons, wander into places i shouldn't then decide i need a shower. the rooms are well laid out, easy to find. the problem is if you arrive after dark, you open the front door, you walk in looking for a light switch and the door closes behind you, but there's no light switch, you hold your hands out, feeling along the surface of the walls, falling over the slippers they kindly left you, the stool, walking into the dresser, feeling the twin beds, searching the lamps between the beds, nothing, its so dark you can't see anything. later you discover that the key has to be placed in a strange holder that connects the wires to make the lights work, they are all on a flat touch panel near the bed.you spend the next hour playing with the combinations, i like very low lights. the tv offers 45 different types of korean shows, all look awful so i run the bath. however the bath has 10 different nozzles none of them fill the bath, they operate showers. i very rarely have a bath anyway so i settle on the shower, yeah well, i can't get the combination of nozzles correct, so i have a cold shower on my left side and a hot one on my right.
i raid the bar fridge.
it's a nice room, very hi tech and clean, good air con, good accessories and a nice view of some buildings. but the best thing about it is the beds, firm mattress, soft blankets, oh clean sheets. another interesting point is no art, anywhere in the room, no tacky paintings, no silly portraits, just blank walls.