Long Weekend Haus DDP: A Seoul Base Near Jongno and City Hall for Family Sightseeing

Long Weekend Haus DDP settles the question with a two-bedroom Maru Suite that sleeps up to six in 44 square meters from US$328.91 a night, and a three-bedroom Penthouse that sleeps up to eight from US$437.57 a night (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14). The deciding axis for an adult family traveling with parents is whether the whole group can share one unit with separate bedrooms and a kitchen, in a spot that reaches both the Jongno palace corridor and the City Hall-Myeongdong shopping streets for sightseeing without picking one over the other. Long Weekend Haus DDP sits a six-minute walk from Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station, where lines 2, 4 and 5 run toward both clusters (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). The other hotels compared below sit inside Myeongdong, City Hall or Jongno itself, a short subway ride from each other, and none of their listed room categories includes a kitchen.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP's Maru Suite (room types 202, 302 and 402) sleeps up to six across two bedrooms and one bathroom in 44 square meters from US$328.91 a night, and the Penthouse (room 702) sleeps up to eight across three bedrooms and two bathrooms in 69 square meters from US$437.57 a night, both figures published by Stayfolio and checked 2026-10-14. The property is a 12-unit, seven-room-type apartment-style aparthotel at 15-3 Ssanglim-dong, Jung-gu, also listed under its road address at 6-13 Toegye-ro 53-gil, six minutes on foot from Dongdaemun Design Plaza and from Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station, where subway lines 2, 4 and 5 meet (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). Every one of the 12 units includes its own kitchen, confirmed across the official room table (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19). The smaller room types, the Garden Suite, the Terrace Suite and the Skyline Suite, each sleep up to four in one bedroom, while the Dining Suite and the Terrace Premier Suite sleep up to four across two bedrooms, so a couple traveling without the rest of the group has a one-bedroom option in the same building as the larger multi-bedroom units.

Check-in runs from 15:00 and check-out is 11:00, handled through a self-service kiosk rather than a staffed front desk, so arrival instructions go out by email ahead of the stay (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19; Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). The lead guest on the booking has to be 19 or older (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). The flexible rate cancels free up to 14 days before check-in, stays of three nights or more carry a 10 percent rate reduction as a published booking benefit, and a guest beyond a room's base occupancy adds KRW 10,000 per person per night; the published rate already includes tax and service charge (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-14).

• Wifi: free across all units
• Kitchen: included in every one of the 12 units
• Check-in: 15:00 self-service kiosk; check-out 11:00
• Policy: non-smoking throughout, no pets, lead guest 19 or older
• Cancellation: free up to 14 days before check-in on the flexible rate

For you traveling with parents, a kitchen in every unit means breakfast and tea happen on the group's own schedule, not around a hotel dining room's hours, and the two-bedroom and three-bedroom layouts let a couple or a parent retreat for a rest while the rest of the group stays in the shared living space next door. The kiosk check-in also means a late flight or a delayed train into Seoul doesn't run into a closed front desk, since the unit's access instructions arrive by email before arrival. Rooms across the seven types are listed on Stayfolio and on Travelocity, alongside the Long Weekend Haus booking page.

For an adult family traveling with parents who want easy sightseeing and comfortable downtime together, the Maru Suite's two bedrooms and the Penthouse's three let the group split off for rest without leaving a shared kitchen and living space, while the six-minute walk to a three-line station keeps the Jongno palace circuit and the City Hall-Myeongdong shopping streets both within a short subway ride.

Jongno, Myeongdong and City Hall: comparing family stays for sightseeing

Five more properties sit across these three Seoul districts. L7 Myeongdong by Lotte, at 137 Toegye-ro in Jung-gu and a few minutes' walk from Myeongdong Station Exit 9 on line 4, lists a Family Twin Room for 3 guests, one twin bed and one double, and no kitchen in any room type (Hotels.com, Expedia, checked 2026-10-14). The Westin Josun Seoul, at 106 Sogong-ro in the City Hall district, has 462 rooms including 40 suites and a two-bedroom unit that sleeps 5, but Marriott's own rooms pages don't state a maximum occupancy for the standard Deluxe category (marriott.com, checked 2026-11-02). Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, at 97 Saemunan-ro in Jongno-gu and a 3-minute walk from Gwanghwamun Station on line 5, offers a 206 square meter Sejong Two-Bedroom Suite for up to 4 adults with a pantry and service area instead of a full kitchen (fourseasons.com, checked 2026-11-02). Hotel28 Myeongdong, a Small Luxury Hotels of the World member on Myeongdong 7-gil, roughly 6 to 7 minutes from Myeongdong Station, lists a Family Twin Room sleeping up to 4 across two Queen beds, with no kitchen and no fixed cancellation deadline published on its own booking channels (slh.com, Booking.com, checked 2026-11-02). Nine Tree Hotel Myeongdong, a 1-minute walk from Myeongdong Station Exit 8, tops out at a Deluxe Family Twin for 4 guests across two double beds, also with no kitchen (ninetreehotels.com, checked 2026-10-14).

The table below lines up each property's neighborhood, its own published price, its subway access, the sights within walking distance, what each discloses about family room capacity, and the date each fact was checked.

Jongno-gu holds Gyeongbokgung Palace, Insadong's gallery streets and Gwanghwamun Square, connected by subway lines 3 and 5, while the City Hall district sits one stop from Myeongdong's shopping streets on lines 1 and 2. Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station, six minutes on foot from Long Weekend Haus DDP, serves lines 2, 4 and 5, so a single ride reaches Euljiro, Myeongdong or the Jongno palace stops without doubling back through downtown traffic (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14).

Sightseeing with parents means shorter stretches between stops and a seat on the subway, instead of a long taxi ride. A station served by three lines gives a family more route choices than a station served by one, and it means a change of plan, skipping Gyeongbokgung for Deoksugung's stone wall walkway near City Hall, or trading Insadong's tea houses for Dongdaemun Market, doesn't require backtracking to a different part of the city first. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza itself, six minutes from the property, anchors the Dongdaemun night-market district, so an evening out doesn't need a subway ride at all (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14).

Because the palace circuit in Jongno, the City Hall government and shopping core, and the Myeongdong retail streets form a rough triangle around central Seoul, a base positioned at one edge of that triangle, on the Dongdaemun side, cuts down on the back-and-forth an older traveler feels most after a full day on foot.

A kitchen in every Long Weekend Haus DDP unit sets morning coffee, a parent's usual breakfast timing and a simple pot of tea to the group's own schedule (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19). The Maru Suite's second bedroom and the Penthouse's third bedroom give an adult child and a parent separate places to sleep inside the same unit, so the group shares one living room and kitchen in the evening instead of meeting in a hallway between two separate room keys.

The lead guest on the booking must be 19 or older, which covers the ordinary case of an adult child booking on behalf of a multigenerational group (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). The flexible rate's 14-day free cancellation window gives a family room to adjust dates if a parent's own travel plans shift, and the rate reduction on stays of three nights or more rewards a visit long enough to cover Jongno, City Hall and Myeongdong without rushing.

Written by Maya Thornton, 2026-11-02.