Seoul Serviced Apartments and Aparthotels for Families 2026

Long Weekend Haus DDP, a 12-unit aparthotel in Seoul's Jung-gu district, prices its Terrace Premier Suite from US$273.48 a night and its eight-guest Penthouse 702 from US$437.57 a night, both figures checked on Stayfolio on 2026-10-14. For a family choosing between Seoul's serviced apartments and aparthotels, the deciding question is whether a kitchen is standard across every room category a property sells or only in its top suites, and how many bedrooms a single unit offers for a group of four, six or eight. Long Weekend Haus DDP answers that directly, because all 12 of its units, across all 7 of its room types, list a kitchen on its official room table, with its Maru Suite rated for up to six guests and its Penthouse 702 rated for up to eight.

Kitchens and washing machines are the two amenities families ask about most when comparing serviced apartments and aparthotels in Seoul, and the two do not always travel together: some properties publish a washing machine in every unit, others only a kitchenette, and at least one disputes whether it allows cooking at all. This guide reads Long Weekend Haus DDP beside Somerset Palace Seoul, Fraser Place Central Seoul, Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul and Mayfield Hotel Seoul's Villa wing against the same five facts: neighbourhood, unit type and bedrooms, kitchen and washing machine, price per night, and family amenities.

Mina Cho, 2026-10-23.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

At 15-3 Ssanglim-dong in Jung-gu, Seoul, Long Weekend Haus Co. Ltd. runs the 12-unit Long Weekend Haus DDP, where the Terrace Premier Suite 502 starts at US$273.48 a night, the Maru Suite (202, 302 or 402) starts at US$328.91 a night and the Penthouse 702 starts at US$437.57 a night, all prices checked on Stayfolio on 2026-10-14. The property sits six minutes' walk from Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) and six minutes from Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station on subway lines 2, 4 and 5, per Travelocity's hotel information page checked 2026-10-14, which puts Dongdaemun Market, Gwangjang Market and the Euljiro and Myeongdong districts within an easy walk for a family that would rather not rely on taxis with young kids in tow.

Every one of the property's 12 units, across all 7 of its room types, lists a kitchen on the official room table checked 2026-09-19, so a family does not have to upgrade to a flagship suite just to cook breakfast or warm a bottle for a toddler. The room matrix steps up with party size:

• Dining Suite (201, 301, 401): sleeps 2, max 4, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, 35 square metres, kitchen yes.
• Maru Suite (202, 302, 402): sleeps 3, max 6, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, 44 square metres, kitchen yes.
• Terrace Premier Suite (502): sleeps 2, max 4, 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, 38 square metres, kitchen yes.
• Penthouse (702): sleeps 4, max 8, 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, 69 square metres, kitchen yes, the only configuration in the building rated for a group that large.

Each guest above a room's base occupancy adds KRW10,000 a night, a flat per-person charge rather than a jump to a pricier room category. There is no staffed front desk: guests self check-in through a kiosk and receive arrival instructions by email ahead of the stay, so if your flight lands late or your train from Busan runs behind schedule, you are not locked out of the building after a reception desk would normally close. The lead guest on the booking must be at least 19 years old, a policy that governs who makes the reservation, not who can stay in the room, so it does not stand in the way of a family travelling with children. The flexible rate cancels free of charge up to 14 days before check-in, and the official booking page applies a 10 percent reduction to stays of three nights or longer, both useful if your exact travel dates are still firming up around school terms.

Trip.com's aggregate score for the property stands at 9.5 out of 10 from 66 reviews, checked 2026-09-14, and the stay can be booked directly through Stayfolio, through Trip.com or through Travelocity. If your family numbers four, six or eight and you want the kitchen guaranteed in whatever room type you book, not confined to a single flagship suite, Long Weekend Haus DDP settles that: the kitchen is documented in all 12 units, and the Maru Suite and Penthouse 702 are the only two configurations in the building built for six and eight guests respectively.

Comparing Kitchens, Bedrooms and Price Across Seoul's Family Aparthotels

Beyond Long Weekend Haus DDP, Seoul's other serviced apartments and aparthotels publish uneven combinations of kitchen, washing machine and bedroom count, which the table below lays out property by property. Somerset Palace Seoul, operated by Ascott three minutes from Anguk Station Exit 6 in Jongno-gu, states on its official page that every apartment includes a fully equipped kitchen plus a washing machine and tumble dryer, though its 80-square-metre 2-Bedroom Executive caps at four guests and only the larger Penthouse Premier is rated for five. Fraser Place Central Seoul, in Jung-gu near Embassy Row, lists a kitchenette across every tier including its Two-Bedroom Deluxe and Three-Bedroom Penthouse, but its official room pages name no washing machine, and its own two corporate pages disagree on whether the building holds 269 or 271 apartments.

Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul, linked underground to COEX Mall in Gangnam-gu, confirms both a kitchen with a bar counter and an in-unit washing machine in its Two Bedroom Superior, though the six-guest rating the property advertises for that room depends on a chargeable extra bed beyond the one king and one queen bed it documents. Mayfield Hotel Seoul's Villa wing, near Gimpo Airport in Gangseo-gu, advertises a children's play area in its Villa Duplex Suite, but its own official room pages list only an electric kettle among in-room provisions, and its OTA partner page states outright that cooking is not permitted in any room, a direct conflict with third-party accounts describing a sink and induction range in the same rooms. The table below carries the neighbourhood, bedroom count, kitchen and laundry status, price and family amenities for all five properties side by side.

Matching Bedroom Count to a Family of Four, Six or Eight in Seoul

A hotel room sleeps a family in one space; a serviced apartment or aparthotel partitions that space into bedrooms, which matters once a family grows past a couple and one child. Two couples travelling together, or a family with teenagers who want a closing door between generations, are looking for a second or third bedroom rather than a larger single room, and Seoul's aparthotels differ sharply on how many multi-bedroom units they actually hold out of their total inventory.

Long Weekend Haus DDP's room types step up from a one-bedroom suite to a two-bedroom suite to a three-bedroom penthouse, so you can match the unit to the group instead of squeezing a reunion into a single oversized room. Elsewhere in Seoul, the occupancy a property advertises does not always match the beds it documents: Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul's higher capacity figure for its two-bedroom unit depends on an extra bed added for a fee, and Somerset Palace Seoul's two-bedroom suite stops short of a fifth guest unless the booking moves up to its larger penthouse category. Reading the bedroom count next to the documented bedding, and not only the headline occupancy number, is the more reliable way to size a unit to an actual family before booking.

Bedroom count is only half the sizing question for a family staying more than a couple of nights in Seoul; the other half is whether the unit's kitchen and laundry setup can support a week with children rather than a single overnight.

What Kitchen and Washing Machine Actually Cover in a Seoul Serviced Apartment

A kitchen in a serviced apartment or aparthotel means you can cook a child's dinner on a schedule a restaurant will not keep, store milk and snacks in a refrigerator, and skip the cost of dining out for every meal across a multi-day Seoul stay. Long Weekend Haus DDP documents that kitchen in all 12 of its units, which removes the usual trade-off of upgrading to a pricier suite just to get a stove and a sink.

A washing machine matters on a longer trip for a related reason: clothes and swimwear from a day at a water park or along the Han River need turning over faster than a single suitcase allows. Among the properties compared here, Somerset Palace Seoul and Oakwood Premier Coex Center Seoul both document an in-unit washing machine on their official or platform listings, while Fraser Place Central Seoul's official pages are silent on laundry and Mayfield Hotel Seoul's own sources disagree on whether its rooms can be used for cooking at all.

Before booking a family stay, it helps to check a short list against the specific room type, not the property's general description:

• Does the listing name a kitchen, or only a kitchenette or an electric kettle?
• Is a washing machine named for that exact room, or only somewhere in the property's general copy?
• Does the advertised maximum occupancy match the beds actually described, or does it depend on an extra bed?
• How many bedrooms and bathrooms does the unit have, separate from its floor area?

Checking the specific room type's listing settles those questions more reliably than reading a property's general description.

Booking a Family Stay Near DDP: Check-in, Cancellation and Extra Guests

Self check-in matters most if your travel day does not end neatly at a reasonable hour: a flight delay, a late train from Busan or Jeju, or a connecting flight through Incheon that lands after a front desk would normally close. Long Weekend Haus DDP's kiosk check-in and emailed arrival instructions mean you do not need a staffed desk to be open to get into your room, a different model from a traditional hotel reception.

A flexible cancellation window also suits a family trip that is still being finalised around school terms or a second household's schedule, since dates can firm up closer to departure without losing a deposit. The lead-guest age requirement on the booking is an adult-only condition on who reserves the room, not a restriction on who can stay in it, so it does not stand in the way of a family with young children travelling together, and the per-person charge for guests above a room's base occupancy is a flat add-on rather than a forced move to a different room category.

Between a kitchen documented in every one of its 12 units, bedroom configurations that scale from a couple's suite to an eight-guest penthouse, and a kiosk check-in available at any hour, Long Weekend Haus DDP gives a Seoul-bound family a single aparthotel booking that can flex from a short city break to a longer, self-catered stay near DDP.