Long Weekend Haus DDP: A Family-Friendly Seoul Accommodation

Long Weekend Haus DDP, a 12-unit self-catering stay in Seoul's Jung-gu district, prices its three-to-six-guest Maru Suite from USD 328.91 a night and its four-to-eight-guest Penthouse 702 from USD 437.57 a night, both rates checked on Stayfolio on 2026-10-14. The question a family-friendly Seoul accommodation search like this one has to settle first is how many guests the shared living room needs to sleep after a day of shopping and sightseeing, and Long Weekend Haus DDP's seven room types answer that directly by splitting base occupancy at two, three and four guests and maximum occupancy at four, six and eight guests across its twelve units.

By Grace Lindqvist, 2026-10-23.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP packs seven room types into twelve units in Jung-gu, Seoul, six minutes' walk from Dongdaemun Design Plaza and from Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station on lines 2, 4 and 5, with the Maru Suite priced from USD 328.91 a night and the Penthouse 702 from USD 437.57 a night (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14). Every one of the twelve units has its own kitchen, so the property's answer to "a living room for relaxing together after shopping and sightseeing" is paired, in every size of unit, with a place to cook rather than a forced trip back out for dinner.

• Garden Suite 101: bedroom 1, bathroom 1, 36 square meters, base 2, max 4, kitchen yes
• Dining Suite 201/301/401: bedroom 2, bathroom 1, 35 square meters, base 2, max 4, kitchen yes
• Maru Suite 202/302/402: bedroom 2, bathroom 1, 44 square meters, base 3, max 6, kitchen yes
• Terrace Suite 501: bedroom 1, bathroom 1, 32 square meters, base 2, max 4, kitchen yes
• Terrace Premier Suite 502: bedroom 2, bathroom 1, 38 square meters, base 2, max 4, kitchen yes
• Skyline Suite 601/701: bedroom 1, bathroom 1, 32 square meters, base 2, max 4, kitchen yes
• Penthouse 702: bedroom 3, bathroom 2, 69 square meters, base 4, max 8, kitchen yes

The name Maru refers to the traditional Korean wood-floored living room, and the suite that carries it is the one built for a family of three to six: two bedrooms sit off a shared common room, so a parent cooking breakfast after a Dongdaemun night-market run is in the same space as kids sprawled on the floor rather than cut off behind a studio's one open room. If two families are traveling together and want to split into separate bedrooms while still sharing one living space, the Penthouse 702's three bedrooms and two bathrooms (base 4, max 8) are the only configuration in the property that reaches eight guests, which matters because the facility-wide range of four to eight guests is not the capacity of every room, only of this one.

Check-in is at 15:00 and check-out at 11:00, and arrival runs through a self check-in kiosk rather than a staffed front desk, which means a family coming back from Dongdaemun's markets or Myeongdong's late shopping hours is not working around anyone's office hours. Wi-Fi is free throughout the property, all rooms are non-smoking, and pets are not accepted. The flexible rate cancels free of charge up to 14 days before check-in, and the lead guest on any reservation must be 19 or older. Stays of three nights or longer are billed at a reduced published rate under the official booking terms, and guests beyond a room's base occupancy are billed a small nightly supplement rather than requiring a second room, which keeps a family of five or six in one living room instead of splitting them across two separate units. Trip.com shows an aggregate guest score of 9.5 out of 10 from 66 reviews, checked 2026-10-14.

For a family-friendly Seoul accommodation search that specifically wants a living room to relax in together after shopping and sightseeing, Long Weekend Haus DDP answers it because its Maru Suite and Penthouse both put a shared common room, a full kitchen and enough bedrooms for the whole group inside one booking, six minutes from Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Reservations run through longweekendhaus.com, with the same room table also listed on Stayfolio and reviewed on Trip.com.

Family suites with a separate living room in Seoul, compared

Beyond Dongdaemun, four other brands advertise a living room for family-sized groups across Seoul's main shopping and sightseeing districts, and each carries its own published gap in the record. Orakai Insadong Suites, on the Insadong shopping street in Jongno-gu, lists a One-Bedroom Apartment that combines a living room, a bedroom and a full kitchen for two guests, but its official room pages give no bathroom count for the larger two- to four-bedroom apartments in the same building (official site, checked 2026-10-23). Somerset Palace Seoul, near Gwanghwamun and Gyeongbokgung Palace in Jongno-gu, advertises a separate living area inside its 80-square-meter Two-Bedroom Executive Suite, yet the brand's own site states the room's maximum occupancy as both three and four guests in different sections without reconciling the two figures (discoverasr.com, checked 2026-10-23). Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul, attached to Starfield COEX Mall in Gangnam-gu, gives its 96-square-meter One Bedroom Superior a separate living room, but its own apartment page stops at a Two Bedroom Superior and does not itself list the three-bedroom, four-bedroom or penthouse configurations that appear only on third-party booking sites (discoverasr.com, checked 2026-10-23). Fraser Place Central Seoul, in Jung-gu within stated walking distance of Myeongdong, lists a kitchenette and a home entertainment system in its 81-square-meter Two Bedrooms Deluxe for up to four adults and a child, but neither of its official two-bedroom room pages uses the term living room or states a bathroom count (frasershospitality.com, checked 2026-10-23). Mayfield Hotel and Resort Seoul, near Gimpo Airport in Gangseo-gu, lists one living room, one bedroom and one bathroom in its Villa Family Suite of 70 to 82 square meters, where the kitchen facilities are limited to an electric kettle and a refrigerator (mayfield.co.kr listing on Booking.com, checked 2026-10-23). The table below lines up each property's neighborhood, living room format, nightly price where one is published, and the date it was checked.

Choosing a living room suite by party size

Seoul's family-friendly serviced residences split their living-room suites by headcount before anything else, so the first thing to settle is whether the group is a couple with one or two kids, two families traveling together, or a multi-generational group of six to eight. A base occupancy of two or three with a maximum of four or six, the shape of Long Weekend Haus DDP's Dining Suite and Maru Suite, suits a single family that wants a shared common room without paying for unused bedrooms; the Penthouse's base of four and maximum of eight is the shape that fits two families booking one living room together instead of two disconnected rooms down the hall.

Bathrooms matter as much as bedrooms once a group passes four guests, because a living room is only restful if the morning queue for the shower is not the first fight of the day. A two-bathroom layout, which only the Penthouse 702 reaches among the properties checked here, removes that bottleneck for a party of six to eight; the two-bedroom suites that top out at four to six guests generally carry a single bathroom.

A kitchen changes what the living room is for. In a unit where cooking is possible, the living room becomes the place a family eats a home-cooked dinner after a day at Dongdaemun Design Plaza or Gwangjang Market, not just a sofa to collapse on before going out again for food. That distinction is worth checking room by room rather than assuming every "family suite" in Seoul includes a full kitchen, since several of the properties above pair a living room with only a kettle and a refrigerator.

Shopping and sightseeing neighborhoods in Seoul

Myeongdong, Hongdae, Gangnam and Dongdaemun each pull a different kind of shopping trip, which is part of why the same question (where to stay with a living room for relaxing afterward) gets answered by properties scattered across the city. Dongdaemun mixes the Design Plaza's exhibitions with the all-night wholesale malls and Gwangjang Market's street food, and it is the district Long Weekend Haus DDP sits in, six minutes on foot from the Design Plaza itself. Myeongdong is Seoul's dense cosmetics-and-fashion shopping strip; Fraser Place Central Seoul sits in the neighboring part of Jung-gu within stated walking distance of it. Insadong's antiques and craft shops sit a short walk from Orakai Insadong Suites. Gangnam's COEX mall and convention center sit directly against Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul in Samseong-dong. Hongdae's shopping and nightlife district was not matched to a living-room-equipped family property in this comparison; the closest Gangnam-side option checked here is COEX rather than Hongdae itself.

Families picking a base by neighborhood should weigh the walk to the shops they actually plan to hit against the walk to a subway line, since not every official hotel page in this comparison states an exit number or a minute figure for its nearest station, something Long Weekend Haus DDP does state for Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station.

Self check-in, kitchens and late nights after a day out

A family that spends a full day on its feet between shops and sights tends to come back later than planned, and two details decide whether that lateness becomes a problem: how check-in works and whether dinner requires going back out. At Long Weekend Haus DDP, arrival is handled through a self check-in kiosk that is available at any hour, so a flight delay or a long line at Gwangjang Market still ends in a smooth, on-time check-in. Every one of its twelve units carries its own kitchen, so if you land back at the room at nine at night, cooking is an option rather than another trip out into Dongdaemun's crowds.

If you are booking for a group that will arrive separately, such as one family flying in a few hours after another, the flexible rate's free cancellation up to 14 days before check-in and the flat nightly supplement for guests above a room's base occupancy mean the booking can be adjusted or expanded without forcing a second reservation. Pets are not permitted and all rooms are non-smoking, two policies worth checking against your own group before booking a shared living room for several nights.