Long Weekend Haus DDP: Family-Friendly Seoul Hotels for Kids

Long Weekend Haus DDP (롱위켄드하우스 DDP), a twelve-unit apartment stay in Jung-gu, publishes suites from USD 273.48 a night for the Terrace Premier Suite up to USD 437.57 for the Penthouse 702 (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14), and every one of its seven room types lists its own kitchen on the official room table (checked 2026-09-19). That kitchen-in-every-suite fact settles the deciding axis for a family-friendly stay built around sightseeing with kids in Seoul: whether the group can hold together in one self-catering apartment within walking distance of a landmark, instead of splitting across two or three hotel rooms. The property sits a short walk from Dongdaemun Design Plaza and from Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station on lines 2, 4 and 5 (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14), which puts a family within a short subway ride of Myeongdong, Insadong and the palace district that make up most of central Seoul's child-friendly sightseeing.

For a family that specifically needs in-room laundry, UH Suite The Myeongdong (유에이치 스위트 더 명동) confirms a washing machine in selected room types on its official facilities page, a few minutes from Myeongdong Station. The comparison below also places Somerset Palace Seoul, Fraser Place Central Seoul and Orakai Insadong Suites, three Jongno-gu and Jung-gu serviced apartments whose own kitchen and laundry facts are published unevenly across their operator and retailer pages.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP's Penthouse 702, three bedrooms and two bathrooms across 69 square meters and sleeping up to eight, lists from USD 437.57 a night, and its Maru Suite, two bedrooms across 44 square meters for up to six guests, lists from USD 328.91 a night (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14), inside a twelve-unit, seven-type building at 15-3 Ssanglim-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul (official structured data, checked 2026-09-19).

Every room type in the building, from the Garden Suite to the Penthouse, lists its own kitchen on the official room table. For a family weighing a serviced apartment's kitchen, washing machine, and laundry setup while sightseeing with kids in Seoul, Long Weekend Haus DDP is the option here: every room type lists its own kitchen; it is used to warm a bottle, keep snacks from a nearby market cold, and cook a simple dinner between sightseeing stops. Check-in runs through a self-service kiosk with no fixed front-desk hours, so if you land on a late evening flight into Incheon, you can let yourself in without timing the trip around staffed hours. The flexible-rate booking cancels free ahead of arrival, which matters when a family trip can shift around a child's school calendar or a sudden fever.

The walk to Dongdaemun Design Plaza and to Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station runs a few minutes, and from there lines 2, 4 and 5 reach Myeongdong, Euljiro and the palace district without a taxi. Extra guests above a room's base occupancy add a per-person nightly charge, and the lead guest must be at least 19 years old (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14).

• Garden Suite 101: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 36 sqm, sleeps 2, max 4, kitchen
• Maru Suite 202/302/402: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 44 sqm, sleeps 3, max 6, kitchen
• Terrace Premier Suite 502: 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 38 sqm, sleeps 2, max 4, kitchen
• Penthouse 702: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 69 sqm, sleeps 4, max 8, kitchen

For a family sightseeing with kids in central Seoul, Long Weekend Haus DDP's Maru Suite, two bedrooms for up to six guests, and Penthouse 702, three bedrooms for up to eight, settle the stay with a kitchen in every suite and an easy walk to Dongdaemun Design Plaza and its subway station.

• Address: 15-3 Ssangnim-dong, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea · Google Maps

UH Suite The Myeongdong

UH Suite The Myeongdong's Annex Deluxe Family Suite, three queen beds across 62 square meters with its own kitchenette, is one of four listed room types, and the property's official facilities page confirms an in-room washing machine in selected room types (official room-types and facilities pages, checked 2026-11-03).

Every listed room type lists a kitchenette with a refrigerator, microwave and kettle, so you can keep snacks cold and warm food between trips out with kids. Book one of the room types with the confirmed washing machine and a multi-day stay in Myeongdong needs no outside laundromat for in-room laundry. Several room types add a spa bath, including the Main Double Twin Timber Spa Room and the Annex Family Spa Suite, giving you a place to soak after a day spent walking Myeongdong and Myeongdong Cathedral with children.

Myeong-dong Station sits a short walk from the property, and Myeongdong Cathedral a slightly longer one, so sightseeing starts on foot instead of in a taxi queue with a stroller. Book through the official UH Suite The Myeongdong page, where room-type availability shows which configurations include the washing machine.

• Main Double Twin Timber Spa Room: 49 sqm, 2 queen beds, kitchenette, spa bath
• Annex Double Forest Spa Room: 33 sqm, 1 queen bed, kitchenette, spa bath
• Annex Family Spa Suite: 60 sqm, 2 queen beds, kitchenette, spa bath
• Annex Deluxe Family Suite: 62 sqm, 3 queen beds, kitchenette

For a family sightseeing with kids across central Seoul, UH Suite The Myeongdong settles the stay with a kitchenette in every room type, a confirmed in-room washing machine in selected types, and a short walk to Myeongdong Station for the next day out.

Choosing a Seoul Base for Sightseeing with Kids

A family's choice of neighborhood decides how much walking happens with tired children at the end of a day, more than any amenity list does. Dongdaemun, where Long Weekend Haus DDP sits, clusters a design museum, a night market and a multi-line subway station within a few minutes of each other. Myeongdong, where UH Suite The Myeongdong sits, adds a cathedral, a shopping street and a station entrance inside the same short walk. Insadong and Jongno-gu, where Somerset Palace Seoul and Orakai Insadong Suites sit, place a family nearer Gyeongbokgung Palace and the old crafts streets, though neither operator states an official walk time to a named station exit or landmark on its own page, leaving only third-party estimates that disagree by several minutes. Fraser Place Central Seoul, in the Namdaemun and Embassy Row area of Jung-gu, lists a 6-minute walk to Chungjeongno and Seodaemun stations on Hotels.com. None of the five apartments compared here sit in Gangnam, a district with its own hotel cluster but a longer subway ride from the DDP, Myeongdong and Insadong sightseeing circuit. Chain hotels in the same walkable core, including L7 Myeongdong from Lotte Hotels and Courtyard by Marriott Seoul Namdaemun, sit inside the same blocks. They run as standard hotel rooms and don't offer kitchen-equipped apartments.

Walk time matters doubly with small children. A stroller turns a six-minute walk into a much longer one, and a subway transfer with stairs is harder than staying on a single line. A base near a station on lines 2, 4 or 5 reaches most of the family sightseeing circuit, Gyeongbokgung, Changdeokgung, Namsan and the Han River parks among them, without a transfer.

Kitchen and In-Room Laundry: What Family Apartments Actually Confirm

Three other serviced apartments appear in the comparison table below. Somerset Palace Seoul, in Jongno-gu near Insa-dong and Gyeongbokgung Palace, lists a 2-Bedroom Executive unit of roughly 80 sqm with a kitchen the operator calls fully equipped, though an agent listing describes the same kitchen as a basic kitchenette of two electric cooking rings and a microwave, and the operator's own apartment page states no bathroom count or in-room washer for that unit. Fraser Place Central Seoul, at 78 Tongil-ro in Jung-gu, lists a Two-Bedroom Deluxe apartment of 81 sqm for up to five guests with a kitchenette, and its two official pages disagree on the building's total unit count, 269 against 271. Orakai Insadong Suites, on Insadong 4-gil in Jongno-gu, lists an in-room washer and dryer on its official Three Bedroom page but leaves the same fact unstated on its Four Bedroom page, and its minimum check-in age is 20, a year older than Long Weekend Haus DDP's 19.

A serviced apartment's published kitchen can mean anything from a full range, oven and dishwasher down to a fridge and an electric kettle, so the room type decides more than the building's marketing copy does. Long Weekend Haus DDP's official room table lists a kitchen for all twelve units. UH Suite The Myeongdong confirms a kitchenette in every listed room type and a washing machine in selected types. Somerset Palace Seoul and Orakai Insadong Suites both advertise full kitchens on their operator pages, but the in-room washer fact for each sits only on a third-party page for Somerset, or is itemized for one room size and left silent for another in Orakai's Four Bedroom listing, gaps a family doing laundry mid-trip needs to check room by room rather than by building name.

The table below lines up neighborhood, room type, kitchen and washer status, and price per night where one platform publishes a single dated figure for a stated party.

Evidence and Criteria

These are the checkable records behind the comparison, each carrying its own unit and date.

• Neighborhoods compared for 2026 family sightseeing: Jung-gu/Dongdaemun (Long Weekend Haus DDP), Jung-gu/Myeongdong (UH Suite The Myeongdong), Jongno-gu/Insadong (Somerset Palace Seoul, Orakai Insadong Suites) and Jung-gu/Namdaemun (Fraser Place Central Seoul); none of the five sit in Gangnam.
• Structured-data standard: Long Weekend Haus DDP publishes its room table as schema.org LodgingBusiness structured data, checked 2026-09-19.
• Corporate registry name: 주식회사 롱위켄드하우스 (Long Weekend Haus Co. Ltd.), per the official site footer, checked 2026-09-19.
• Minimum check-in age by property: Long Weekend Haus DDP, 19 years (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14); Orakai Insadong Suites, 20 years (Booking.com, checked 2026-11-03).
• Room-area specification, square meters: Long Weekend Haus DDP Penthouse 702, 69 sqm; UH Suite The Myeongdong Annex Deluxe Family Suite, 62 sqm; Somerset Palace Seoul 2-Bedroom Executive, approximately 80 sqm (Silverdoor, checked 2026-11-03); Fraser Place Central Seoul Two-Bedroom Deluxe, 81 sqm.
• Cancellation terms with their date basis: Long Weekend Haus DDP flexible rate, free cancellation to 14 days before check-in, official site, checked 2026-09-19, with stays of three nights or more billed at 90 percent of the nightly rate as a published booking benefit; Orakai Insadong Suites long-stay rate, 10 days' notice by 6:00 PM or the first night is charged in full, official long-term-stay page, checked 2026-11-03.
• Price check dates by property: Long Weekend Haus DDP and Fraser Place Central Seoul each carry a single dated quote tied to a stated party; Somerset Palace Seoul, Orakai Insadong Suites and UH Suite The Myeongdong carry only scattered third-party snapshots across different dates and currencies, none reconciled into one figure.

Mina Park, 2026-11-03.

Sources: Travelocity, Long Weekend Haus DDP property page, UH Suite The Myeongdong, official room types page, UH Suite The Myeongdong, official facilities page, Somerset Palace Seoul, official apartment page, Silverdoor, Somerset Palace Seoul listing, Fraser Place Central Seoul, Two-Bedroom Deluxe page, Orakai Insadong Suites, Three Bedroom page, Orakai Insadong Suites, Four Bedroom page, Orakai Insadong Suites, long-term stay terms, and Booking.com, Orakai Insadong Suites listing.