Hotel New World

Stayed here less then one hour then found a better hotel. This is more like an inn then a hotel. Bed is very hard and uncomfortable. They put my in a room next to the lobby until mine would be ready. Staff speaks no English and they also do not respond to emails concerning my reservation. They also do not provide airport transport and pickup. Parking is limited to 4 spaces across the street blocked off by empty gas cans.if you go out they want the keys left at desk. If you have valuables they want them left at the desk. I didn't know it was a hostel when I booked it from another country. I am well past the age where those are interesting. Changed to a 5 star modern hotel.

This was easily the most expensive place on my trip; I was in Tokyo for a week. And the New World Hotel was the worst place of my trip. The location is central-ish, but dirty and gross, with shops selling junk and scrap metal. The first problem was that the listing was cheap, but had a shared bathroom, so compared to other listings (which had their own baths), it looked good. By the time you got your own bathroom, the price was a lot higher. The listing also promised a free shuttle to the airport, so I thought that despite the room price, at least I get a ride to the airport. When I asked the staff, that was a "misunderstanding". Instead of offering to take me the 30km to the airport or pay for the shuttle, or pay me the 80K Won amount of the shuttle, they offered to take me to Seoul station, 1.5km, and said a taxi would cost 85K Won, so they were compensating me well. That is the biggest lie I ever heard. The room was gross. The bathroom had mold in it. Regular soap was shared in the shower. The shower drain was rusty. The water temperature varied while you were showering. There was no shower curtain, so all the water went on the ground. There were screws sticking out of the doorknob and toilet flusher. There's holes in the tile, huge scrapes on the floor, lack of electric switch covers, smudges on walls and other cosmetic things easy to fix, if anyone cared. The sink was cracked and fixed with duct tape!!! Just things I haven't seen since a refugee camp I had the misfortune to be in while in my youth. I wouldn't want to get paid to stay here. I talked to the only English speaker, and presumably the manager, who was somewhat apologetic, but wouldn't address the problems, nor lower the price. When I paid the high price, I assumed a decent room, and there the hotel failed.