Oh. I thin I prefer Phil house then. $50 a night and probably the same sort of beds, but a kitchen with a wasching machine and fridge and a big window - and the price is for a room with two beds... and it is non smoking.
Geez - I could not have stayed in a smoking room post VFS when coughing is prohibited. Thats  not cool.

Quote from: anjaq on March 20, 2015, 04:07:25 PM
Oh. I thin I prefer Phil house then. $50 a night and probably the same sort of beds, but a kitchen with a wasching machine and fridge and a big window - and the price is for a room with two beds... and it is non smoking.
Geez - I could not have stayed in a smoking room post VFS when coughing is prohibited. Thats  not cool.

ha!  It smelled but there wasn't actually smoke in the room and after a day or two it was fine, I either got used to it or it went away.  I figured I would be spending the extra money in travel costs staying so far from the clinic.  The room at princess has a fridge and I bought necessities next door and kept them in the fridge so I could eat my meals in the room.  It also had hot and cold filtered water for making tea or ramen or what ever I needed hot water for.  I wish it had a microwave, that world have made it much easier.  All that said, your place sounds better if you don't mind public transportation or talking to cab drivers.

Ah well - subway was ok - took just 20 minutes or so and cost about $1 per trip. Taxi cost $10 per trip and was maybe even a bit slower. I had a card from Yeson and one from the phil house to show the taxi driver, they typed that into the nav system and that was it.
Phil house has a 24/7 store right next to it, which was cool. Great supply for aloe drink, ice cream, yoghurt and other little things. The house had a common kitchen with hot and cold water from a machine, i suppose it was filtered. and you could get kitchen supplies from there and use them in the room. The temperature control in the room was not easy though and i am glad we did not need air conditioning, whcih was right over one of the beds, and the toilet was always clogged so easily - but that seems a common issue in Seoul. I saw a lot of places like restaurants that asked their customers to put the used toilet paper in a wastebin and not into the toilet.

that aloe drink right after surgery was heavenly!  Yeah I am not advocating Princess just tossing out info and my own rationale.  It sounds like it would be cheaper at philhouse

Yes. But Philhouse was having issues as well. No real breakfast (bad coffee, toast, jam and not enough plates), the toilet was annoying, the rooms could not be darkened properly, so I was glad to have brought something to covere my eyes when planning to sleep long and they only vacuumed the room twice - no one cleaned the bathroom in the 11 nights, but maybe that was in part because we were almost always there until noon. Oh an one has to bring the towels down to the reception to have them changed and also to get more toilet paper. The towels were really small too, so I wish I had brought a big towel for showering. On the upside again you can get free laundry detergent for the washing machine in the room and you get a thingy to dry the clothes on, so you can bring half as many clothes as normally since you can actually wash them. So - it all has advantages and disadvantages. I wonder what you get if you pay like $120 for a night in Seoul.

Quote from: anjaq on March 20, 2015, 04:07:25 PM
Oh. I thin I prefer Phil house then. $50 a night and probably the same sort of beds, but a kitchen with a wasching machine and fridge and a big window - and the price is for a room with two beds... and it is non smoking.
Geez - I could not have stayed in a smoking room post VFS when coughing is prohibited. Thats  not cool.

I have been back and forth about this and I may end up with Phil House. Hard bed is not a concern. My current bed is pretty hard anyway, not your typical soft American hotel bed. It's a box spring mattress. Non smoking is important to me.