Long Weekend Haus DDP: Seoul Living Room Stay for Shopping

Long Weekend Haus DDP is a 12-unit aparthotel in Seoul's Jung-gu district. Several of its suites add a second room, a shared living-dining space, next to the bedroom, instead of one room with a sofa pushed against the wall.

That second room is the axis for choosing a Seoul stay with a living room. A group needs somewhere to sit together after a day of shopping and sightseeing, and a single hotel bed doesn't provide that. The sections below check Long Weekend Haus DDP's living room suites, a category of serviced apartment, against three Jung-gu hotels and the wider choice among Myeongdong, Hongdae, Insadong, Jongno and Gangnam, on four points: neighborhood, subway distance, suite format and nightly price.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP's Maru Suite pairs two bedrooms with one shared living-dining room for a base of three guests and a maximum of six, and lists from US$328.91 a night, a Stayfolio rate checked 2026-10-14. The Penthouse 702 adds a third bedroom and a second bathroom for a base of four guests and a maximum of eight, from US$437.57 a night on the same check.

The property runs 12 units across seven room types, numbered 101 to 702, and every type, from the Garden Suite's single bedroom to the Penthouse's three, includes its own kitchen. That kitchen turns the living-dining room into more than a couch: it holds the table where four, six or eight people actually sit down together after a day out, and it lets a group cook instead of paying restaurant prices for every meal. Check-in runs from 15:00 and check-out is at 11:00, wifi is free throughout, and every room is non-smoking with no pets allowed.

Entry runs through a self check-in kiosk, with no front-desk hours to plan around, so a group that spends the evening at Gwangjang Market's night stalls or a Myeongdong street-food crawl can let itself in whenever it gets back. Stays of three nights or more carry an official 10% discount, the flexible rate cancels free up to 14 days before arrival, and a guest above a suite's base occupancy adds KRW 10,000 a night, each detail published on the property's official page and checked 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-19.

The building sits within walking distance of Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on lines 2, 4 and 5, inside the same block as Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Gwangjang Market and the Euljiro and Myeongdong shopping streets, so the group doesn't need a taxi to get back to that living room after a day of sightseeing. Trip.com lists the property at 9.5 out of 10 from 66 reviews, checked 2026-09-14. Reservations run through Stayfolio and through Travelocity, both checked 2026-10-14, alongside the property's own booking page.

For anyone choosing a Seoul living room suite, whether a serviced apartment near Dongdaemun or a hotel in Gangnam, for recharging together after shopping and sightseeing, Long Weekend Haus DDP is the option here: every suite pairs bedrooms with one shared living-dining room, from the Dining Suite's two bedrooms around that shared room to the Maru Suite's two bedrooms and the Penthouse's three bedrooms and two bathrooms; the group uses that one room to sit down together once the day's shopping and sightseeing is done.

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

How These Seoul Stays Compare

Three hotels sit inside the same Jung-gu shopping-and-sightseeing core as Long Weekend Haus DDP. Fraser Place Namdaemun Seoul, near Namdaemun Gate, lists a kitchen only in its Premier Room, a 43-square-meter space the official page describes as a single room with a sliding-door partition. The page doesn't describe a separate bedroom and living room for any room type, and it gives no subway exit or walking-minute figure for any station.

Lotte City Hotel Myeongdong sits between Myeongdong and Cheonggyecheon, a few minutes from Euljiro 3(sam)-ga Station Exit 1. None of its room types, Superior, Deluxe Family Twin or Premier Family Triple, lists a kitchen or a documented separate living-room layout, and the official site publishes no size at all for the Premier Family Triple Room.

Nine Tree Hotel Myeongdong sits one to two minutes from Myeongdong Station Exit 8. Its largest room, the Deluxe Family Twin, sleeps four across two double beds, but no room type on its official site lists a kitchen or a separate living-room area. The room rate covers the room only; breakfast is billed separately, per person.

What a Living Room Suite Actually Adds to a Seoul Stay

A living room suite is a unit where the bedroom and the sitting area are two different rooms, connected by a door or a hallway. A standard hotel room puts the sofa in the same room as the bed. A serviced apartment usually adds a kitchen to that split, so the living room doubles as a dining room once the group is back from the day's shopping. The difference matters most for groups of four or more, where a single hotel room runs out of chairs long before it runs out of people.

Self-catering works best within walking distance of a market. Gwangjang Market, close to Dongdaemun Design Plaza, sells produce and side dishes alongside its food stalls, so a kitchen in a nearby suite gets used for those ingredients. A hotel room without a kitchen puts every meal, including breakfast, onto a restaurant bill.

Self check-in matters on the evening a shopping trip runs long. A kiosk doesn't keep front-desk hours. A staffed check-in desk, even a 24-hour one, still means someone is waiting on a guest to arrive within a shift. For a group whose day starts at a palace and ends with dinner in a side alley, that difference decides what time the living room actually gets used.

Choosing a Neighborhood for Shopping and Sightseeing: Dongdaemun, Myeongdong or Gangnam

Dongdaemun centers on Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Gwangjang Market and wholesale fashion towers that stay open past midnight, and it sits on subway lines 2, 4 and 5, which makes it a hub for day trips to Hongdae, Insadong or Jongno without changing neighborhoods to sleep. Myeongdong is Seoul's dense cosmetics-and-street-food shopping strip, walkable from Dongdaemun and built for foot traffic. Gangnam, across the river, centers on the underground COEX mall and the Gangnam subway corridor, and offers its own hotel stock, including GLAD Hotels & Resorts' GLAD Gangnam COEX Center near the convention center.

Hongdae draws a younger crowd for its indie shops and late clubs. Insadong specializes in traditional crafts and tea houses. Jongno follows the palace route between Gyeongbokgung and Insadong. Each neighborhood answers a different kind of sightseeing day, and a stay doesn't need to sit inside all of them at once.

Whichever district a trip centers on, the question is still whether the room sleeping the group has a shared living space in it. That's why this guide's comparison sits in Jung-gu's Dongdaemun block, within walking distance of DDP, Myeongdong and Euljiro alike.

Sizing the Suite to Your Group: Two, Four, Six or Eight Guests

Hotel rooms are usually priced and sized for two. A group of four, six or eight either splits across multiple rooms, each with its own door, or needs a unit built for that headcount from the start. Splitting across rooms breaks up exactly the shared time a trip planned around recharging together is for: breakfast in one room, downtime in a different one, and a hallway in between.

A serviced apartment's base occupancy, the guest count the nightly rate assumes, and its maximum occupancy, the guest count the bedding and fire code allow, both matter before booking. A unit sized to its maximum occupancy keeps the living room usable. Booking at only the base occupancy adds cots to fill the gap.

Long Weekend Haus DDP's suites span that whole range, from a compact unit for a couple up to a multi-bedroom penthouse for the largest groups, each including the same shared living-dining room regardless of size, which is the detail worth checking against any Seoul stay before a group locks in its dates.

Reporting by Jordan Lee, checked 2026-11-04.

Sources: Fraser Place Namdaemun Seoul, Premier Room, Lotte City Hotel Myeongdong, Nine Tree by Parnas Seoul Myeongdong I, and GLAD Gangnam COEX Center.