Long Weekend Haus DDP, Ikseon-dong & Jongno 3-ga, Seoul Stays

Long Weekend Haus DDP, a 12-unit self-catering aparthotel in Jung-gu with suites from US$273.48 a night for the Terrace Premier Suite (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14), settles the deciding question for anyone comparing accommodation near Ikseon-dong and Jongno 3-ga Station in Seoul: whether the room itself needs a kitchen and more than one bedroom for a group of four, six or eight guests, not a single hotel room built for two. Travelers weighing a hanok guesthouse a few minutes from Jongno 3-ga Station, or a chain hotel room near Insadong, are choosing on a different axis, walk time to the station itself, and that axis is answered further down this page by the properties that publish it.

By Jun Ho Lee, checked 2026-10-24.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP is a 12-unit, seven-room-type aparthotel at 15-3 Ssanglim-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, with suites from US$273.48 a night for the Terrace Premier Suite, US$328.91 for the Maru Suite and US$437.57 for the Penthouse (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14). Every one of the seven room types, from the 36-square-meter Garden Suite to the 69-square-meter Penthouse, has its own kitchen, which turns a multi-night Seoul stay into one where breakfast, late-night snacks and a share of meals do not depend on a restaurant's hours.

The twelve units split by capacity and layout:

• Garden Suite (101): sleeps 2, max 4, one bedroom, one bathroom, 36 sqm
• Dining Suite (201/301/401): sleeps 2, max 4, two bedrooms, one bathroom, 35 sqm
• Maru Suite (202/302/402): sleeps 3, max 6, two bedrooms, one bathroom, 44 sqm
• Terrace Suite (501): sleeps 2, max 4, one bedroom, one bathroom, 32 sqm
• Terrace Premier Suite (502): sleeps 2, max 4, two bedrooms, one bathroom, 38 sqm
• Skyline Suite (601/701): sleeps 2, max 4, one bedroom, one bathroom, 32 sqm
• Penthouse (702): sleeps 4, max 8, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, 69 sqm

Long Weekend Haus runs the property with a self check-in kiosk instead of a staffed front desk, so arrival instructions go out by email before the stay, letting a late flight into Seoul check in any time without needing to meet a reception counter's hours. Stays of three nights or more carry a 10% discount as a published booking benefit, the flexible rate cancels free up to 14 days before arrival, each guest above a room's base occupancy adds KRW 10,000 a night, and the lead guest on any booking must be at least 19 years old (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19). Trip.com lists the property at 9.5 out of 10 across 66 reviews, checked 2026-09-14.

For travelers weighing the best places to stay near Ikseon-dong and Jongno 3-ga Station as a group of four, six or eight who want to cook between outings and sleep in separate bedrooms, Long Weekend Haus DDP answers that question with a kitchen in every room type and a Penthouse built for eight across three bedrooms and two bathrooms, booked directly through Stayfolio or the brand's own site above.

Hanok Rooms Versus Multi-Bedroom Accommodation Near Ikseon-dong

Two couples who want their own bedrooms, a family of six splitting one kitchen, or two travelers content with a single room settle on a different property depending on which of those shapes applies, and the room chart, not the neighborhood map, is where that choice actually gets made. Long Weekend Haus DDP's Dining Suites and Maru Suites both split two bedrooms across a base of two to three guests with a maximum of four or six, which covers two couples sharing one unit without sharing a bedroom, while the Penthouse's three bedrooms and two bathrooms extend that to eight guests at the top of the property's own capacity table.

Hanok guesthouses in the Ikseon-dong and Bukchon area typically assign named rooms instead of numbered types, sleep two to three guests per room, and in at least one documented case on a property's own listing, state plainly that no kitchen is available to guests. A midscale hotel room near Insadong is usually one 17 to 23 square meter room built for one to three guests with a private bathroom and no second bedroom. Neither format scales to a party of six or eight inside a single booking the way a multi-bedroom aparthotel unit does, which is the practical reason room format belongs at the top of the decision for this part of Seoul.

Breakfast and self-catering split along the same line: a kitchen in every Long Weekend Haus DDP unit means groceries from a nearby market can cover more than one meal, where a single hotel room or a kitchen-free hanok room leaves every meal to a restaurant, cafe or the stalls around Gwangjang Market.

Walking From Jongno 3-ga Station to Ikseon-dong

Jongno 3-ga Station sits on three subway lines, 1, 3 and 5, and Ikseon-dong's hanok lanes open directly off its exits, which is why lodging on this corridor often measures its own distance from that single station instead of from a street address. Several properties in the immediate area publish a four- to five-minute walk to Jongno 3-ga Station, while others anchor their own directions to Anguk Station instead, roughly ten minutes on foot from Bukchon. Long Weekend Haus DDP's own published distances run six minutes to Dongdaemun Design Plaza and six minutes to Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on lines 2, 4 and 5, placing it in Jung-gu's design and market district adjoining the same old-town quarter.

That matters most for a visitor stacking a day between Ikseon-dong's hanok lanes, Gwangjang Market and the DDP exhibition halls: a base near Dongdaemun keeps the DDP end of that walk short, while a base right at Jongno 3-ga Exit 5 or 6 keeps the Ikseon-dong end short, and no single address in this comparison shortens both legs of that walk at once.

Check-in and check-out times vary by property across this corridor, from 14:00 to 15:00 check-in and 11:00 to 12:00 check-out depending on the listing, and a traveler landing late in Seoul benefits most from a property that states its arrival process in writing before the stay rather than discovering a front-desk cutoff on the night itself.

Booking Terms Worth Checking Before You Pay

Nightly rates near Ikseon-dong and Jongno 3-ga Station move by booking platform, currency and the exact date searched, and more than one listing in this corridor shows a different number on a hotel's own aggregator page than on a third-party reseller for the same room category with no stated date, a pattern worth checking against today's date before treating two prices as quoted under the same terms. Long Weekend Haus DDP avoids that particular ambiguity by publishing one tax-inclusive rate per room type directly on its own site and on Stayfolio, with the 10% multi-night discount and the 14-day free cancellation window stated as fixed policy, not a rate that shifts by booking channel (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19).

Age policy is also worth checking before booking a group trip: Long Weekend Haus DDP requires the lead guest on a reservation to be at least 19 years old, a detail that matters for a group of university-age friends planning a Jongno weekend who need an adult name on the booking. Check-in at 15:00 and check-out at 11:00 apply across the property's seven room types, and because entry runs through a self check-in kiosk, not a staffed desk, a guest arriving on a late train into Seoul can still check in without timing arrival around front-desk hours.

Elsewhere on this corridor, cancellation terms and late-arrival rules are not always published at all: several listings in the area show a deposit or rate without a stated cancellation deadline, which leaves that term to be confirmed only at the point of booking a specific date.