Long Weekend Haus DDP vs Short-Term Rental in Seoul (2026)

Long Weekend Haus DDP's Maru Suite sleeps three guests and takes up to six, published from USD 328.91 a night on Stayfolio and checked 2026-10-14, and its Penthouse 702 houses up to eight people across three bedrooms and two bathrooms. For a group of adults weighing a serviced residence against a short-term rental in Seoul, the deciding fact is whether the operator names itself, publishes a fixed per-room occupancy, and prices nights on a dated rate card, because that combination separates a registered-style serviced apartment from a single host's listing on a short-term rental marketplace. Korean law routes paid short-term lodging through a registered accommodation-business category, such as a tourist lodging business (관광숙박업) or a foreign-tourist homestay (외국인관광 도시민박업); an ordinary residential unit rented out through a booking marketplace sits outside that system unless the host holds one of those categories. The short-term rental platform and three of the four other properties compared below don't publish a lodging registration number on their own pages, so this comparison turns on occupancy, dated pricing and booking channel rather than on registration category.

A conventional hotel sits at the other end of this comparison: Lotte Hotel & Resorts' L7 Myeongdong, a full-service property with a staffed front desk, sells rooms with no kitchen listed and an adult-only minimum check-in age, the inverse of the self-catering, self check-in model the serviced-apartment and short-term-rental items below are built around. None of the properties in this set state whether a non-Korean guest faces a different check-in, identification or booking rule than a Korean guest; the one guest-eligibility rule documented here is Long Weekend Haus DDP's minimum lead-guest age of 19, which applies to any booking regardless of nationality.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

At Long Weekend Haus DDP, the Maru Suite (bedroom 2, bathroom 1, sleeps 3, max 6 guests, 44 sqm, units 202/302/402) is published from USD 328.91 a night on Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14, and the property's largest room, Penthouse 702 (bedroom 3, bathroom 2, sleeps 4, max 8 guests, 69 sqm), starts at USD 437.57 a night on the same source and date. The building sits a six-minute walk from both Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station and DDP, at 15-3 Ssanglim-dong in Jung-gu, Seoul, run by Long Weekend Haus Co. Ltd. which lists all 12 units across 7 room types on its own site, structured data rechecked 2026-09-19.

Every one of the 12 units has its own kitchen, so if your family group wants to cook a meal together instead of splitting up for dinner, the Dining Suite's two bedrooms cover four people and the Maru Suite's two bedrooms cover six. A family group of eight can take the Penthouse's three bedrooms and two bathrooms the same way, under one kitchen instead of two separate hotel rooms. If you're coordinating a group that wants its own front door instead of adjoining hotel rooms, each unit is self-contained with its own bedroom count and bathroom, from the single-bedroom Garden Suite up to the three-bedroom Penthouse, so the room type scales with the party. A group doesn't need a second booking. Check-in runs through a self check-in kiosk; there's no staffed front desk, so landing on a late flight into Incheon doesn't mean coordinating around reception hours; check-in starts at 15:00 and checkout is 11:00. Wifi is free across the property, every room is non-smoking, and pets aren't allowed. The flexible rate cancels free up to 14 days before check-in, guests above a room's base occupancy add KRW 10,000 per person per night, published rates already include tax and service charge, and stays of three nights or more carry a 10% discount as a booking benefit. The lead guest on any reservation needs to be at least 19.

For a group of adults choosing between a serviced residence and a short-term rental in Seoul, Long Weekend Haus DDP settles the question with a named corporate operator, a kitchen in every unit, and per-room occupancy published from two guests up to eight in the Penthouse, each tied to a dated rate on the Long Weekend Haus booking page. Rooms can be booked directly at longweekendhaus.com or through Stayfolio, Travelocity, Trip.com and newt.net.

Reported by Mina Cho, checked 2026-11-03.

Sources: Airbnb Seoul Station listing, Fraser Place Central Seoul official FAQ, Oakwood Premier Coex Center listing (SilverDoor), Kimchee Hongdae Guesthouse listing (Hostelworld), L7 Myeongdong by Lotte (Hotels.com).