Itaewon Backpackers

2.0 star property

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Food and drink
Property entrance
Twin Room (Shared Bathroom)
Lobby lounge
Twin Room (Shared Bathroom) | Balcony

Reviews

6.8 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air-conditioning
  • Laundry room
  • Kitchen

Explore the area

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19-8 Itaewon-ro 36-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Seoul, 140-891
  • Place, Itawon Street
    โ€ช1 min walkโ€ฌ
  • Place, Seoul Central Mosque
    โ€ช3 min walkโ€ฌ
  • Place, Namsan Mountain Park
    โ€ช11 min walkโ€ฌ
  • Airport, Seoul (ICN-Incheon Intl.)
    โ€ช76 min driveโ€ฌ

Room options

Double Room (Shared Bathroom )

  • City view
  • 12 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Twin Room (Shared Bathroom)

  • City view
  • 15 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Single Beds

Family Room (4 Person Room, Shared Bathroom)

  • City view
  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Single Bunk Bed

Family Room (6 Person Room, Private Bathroom)

  • City view
  • 30 sq m
  • Sleeps 6
  • 1 Double Bed and 2 Single Bunk Beds

Bunk Room, Shared Bathroom

  • City view
  • 10 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Single Bunk Bed

Family Room (5 Person Room, Shared Bathroom)

  • Sleeps 5
  • 1 Single Bed and 2 Single Bunk Beds

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About the area

Seoul

With a stay at Itaewon Backpackers, you'll be centrally located in Seoul, within a 5-minute drive of Dongdaemun History and Culture Park and Myeongdong Street. .This hostel is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Namdaemun Market and 7 mi (11.3 km) from Lotte World.

What's nearby

  • Itawon Street - 1 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Seoul Central Mosque - 3 min walk - 0.3 km
  • Leeum Samsung Museum of Art - 7 min walk - 0.6 km
  • Blue Square - 10 min walk - 0.8 km
  • Namsan Mountain Park - 11 min walk - 1.0 km

Getting around

  • Itaewon Station - 8 min walk
  • Seoul Station - 11 min drive
  • Gimpo Intl. Airport (GMP) - 48 min drive

Restaurants

  • โ€ช๋‹ค์šดํƒ€์šฐ๋„ˆ - โ€ฌ1 min walk
  • โ€ช๊ธฐ๋‹ค์Šค์‹œ - โ€ฌ3 min walk
  • โ€ชMonk's Butcher - โ€ฌ3 min walk
  • โ€ชThe Truffle Bakery - โ€ฌ2 min walk
  • โ€ชHedon - โ€ฌ4 min walk

About this property

Itaewon Backpackers

Hostel connected to a shopping center in Seoul
Itaewon Backpackers offers 15 air-conditioned accommodations with hair dryers. This Seoul hostel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Guests can make use of the shared/communal kitchen. Guests have access to shared bathrooms. Hypo-allergenic bedding and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Housekeeping is provided weekly.
Recreational amenities at the hostel include complimentary bicycles.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

Make yourself at home in one of the 15 air-conditioned guestrooms. Prepare your meals in the shared/communal kitchen. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Shared bathrooms with hair dryers are provided.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access. Additional amenities at this hostel include a television in a common area, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills.
Mingle with other guests at the complimentary reception, held daily.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired internet access, express check-in, and express check-out. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
A complimentary manager's reception is offered each day.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired internet

Parking and transport

  • No on-site parking available
  • Offsite parking available (KRW 1,800 per hour)
  • 24-hour return airport shuttle at scheduled times for a surcharge
  • Ski shuttle nearby

Food and drink

  • Coffee and tea in common areas
  • Free daily manager's reception

Things to do

  • Free bicycle rentals
  • TV in common areas

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (weekly)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Barbecue grill
  • Garden
  • On the riverwalk
  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • No lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Hypo-allergenic bedding

Bathroom

  • Hair dryer
  • Shared bathroom

Food and drink

  • Shared kitchen access

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Iron/ironing board on request

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 11 PM
Express check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM
Late check-out subject to availability
Late check-out fee: KRW 10000
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); to arrange pick-up, guests must contact the property 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
The front desk is open daily from 9 AM - midnight
Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staffed during limited hours
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property ahead of time using the information on the booking confirmation
If you are planning to arrive after midnight please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Airport shuttle fee: KRW 75000 per vehicle (one way)
  • Nearby parking fee: KRW 1800 per hour
  • Late check-out fee: KRW 10000 (subject to availability)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation
This property accepts credit cards
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

Property class, provided by our rating system, is based on property type, amenities, and services.

Property is also known as

Itaewon Backpackers
Itaewon Backpackers Hostel
Itaewon Backpackers Hostel Seoul
Itaewon Backpackers Seoul
Itaewon Backpackers Seoul
Itaewon Backpackers Hostel/Backpacker accommodation
Itaewon Backpackers Hostel/Backpacker accommodation Seoul

Itaewon Backpackers Reviews

Reviews

6.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 4 out of 19 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 6 out of 19 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 19 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 19 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 19 reviews

6.4/10

Cleanliness

7.0/10

Staff & service

4.0/10

Amenities

6.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
At 12:20am someone knocked on our door while we were sleeping and said they gave us the wrong room so we had to change it. We checked in around 6:30pm but it took them about 6 hours to figure out that we were given a wrong room. I specifically asked where's the bathroom during the check in since I knew we were getting shared bathroom. However wben the employee told us where the bathroom is we were bit surprised because it was a private bathroom instead. Anyway, it was a horrible experience of waking up in the middle of the night and packing everything to switch the room. I've stayed at numbers of hotels and good amount of hostels but by far this was the most unprofessional and had the worst service. While writing this review, I realized during check in, they didn't even ask us for our booking name/info or anything and just took us to our room. Only if they checked our booking info, we wouldn't have to wake up in the middle of the night to switch the room. We were literally thrown outside while they were apologizing to the other customers and reorganizing the room where the other customers already have used. Besides this horrible experience, I still wouldn't recommend this place because it's filthy and the location is pretty shady. It is a cheap place to stay but if you're looking for somewhere as cheap as this place but way better condition then you should go to Myeongdong.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

6/10 Okay

jp, San Francisco

Liked: Staff & service

good location, basic place

it's a basic place. fairly dated. Room was old looking and so was the shared bathroom.

8/10 Good

Alana, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great for location, bad for noise and room size

Great hostel except for a few things. Our room (and many others) were right off the common area with kitchen and bathroom so it was fairly loud in the morning. We had a double room, which was tiny. It was clean, staff was awesome, breakfast was standard. Location was great. I would stay again if we got a much cheaper rate. With the noise and size of the room it wasn't worth what we paid.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service

Our stay at Itaewon Backpackers

We had a good experience. Location is close to main streets and army base. Many steps down to it and many steps on site. Limited meeting/meal area in hostel. Hosts were not too friendly or available. Were most concerned about keeping shoes off rather than greeting us. It was clean and warm. Host kept our luggage while we toured the last day which was nice.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Strategic location

As a muslim, I can easily find 'halal' food such as Tukish kebab, Indonesian/Malay food, Muslim Korean kim chi. This place is near to Seoul mosque & Itaewon subway station. Very convenient....I like it

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

MASAYUKI

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort

๋ฐฉ ์ข‹์€๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ์Œ ์‚ด์ง ์•ˆ๋˜์š”.

5์ธ ํŒจ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ฃธ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌด๋‚œํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ ์ž์ฒด๋Š” ๊นจ๋—ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ํŒจ๋ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ฃธ์ธ ์˜†๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ์ฝ”๊ณ ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์šธ๋ ค์„œ ๋ฒฝ ์˜†์— 1์ธ์นจ๋Œ€์—์„œ ์ž” ์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž ์ž๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ค์–ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.. ๋‚จ์ž๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋ฌธ ์—ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ข€ ๋ถˆํŽธํ–ˆ๊ตฌ์š”. ๋ฐฉ์ด ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ 1์ธต์˜ ์ฒญ๊ฒฐ๋„๋Š” ๋‚˜์˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์นจ๋จน์œผ๋Ÿฌ 3์ธต ๋ถ€์—Œ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ”์„ ๋•Œ ๋ถ€์—Œ ์ƒํƒœ๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋„์ €ํžˆ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์˜ค๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค... ํ† ์ŠคํŠธ๋ž‘ ๋”ธ๊ธฐ์žผ, ๋•…์ฝฉ์žผ์ด ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹จ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์‹ค๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์–ด์š” ใ…  ใ…œ
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

bonguen

์‹ผ๊ฐ’์— ๊ฐ€๊ธด ๊ทธ๋ค ์ž‡! ๊ฑฐ์˜๋‹ค ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด์„ธ์š”

์‹ผ๊ฐ’์— ๊ฐ€๊ธด ๊ทธ๋ค ์ž‡! ๊ฑฐ์˜๋‹ค ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด์„ธ์š”
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค์ด ๋‚™ํ›„ ๋˜์–ด์„œ ์”ป์ง€๋ชปํ–ˆ๋„ค์š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌดํ—ˆ๋ฆ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋…น์Šจ ๋ฐฐ๊ด€์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์ˆ™์†Œ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๋„ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์‹ฑ๊ธ€๋ฃธํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด์ธต์นจ๋Œ€์˜€๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๋„ ์ž‘๋”๊ตฐ์š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋ถ„๋งŒ์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Heonkyo

์œ„์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์Œ. ์ดํƒœ์›์—์„œ ์ฃผ์š” ์žฅ์†Œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ์ข‹์Œ.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Asuka

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
ๆขจๆณฐ้™ขใฎๅคง้€šใ‚Šใ‹ใ‚‰่ฟ‘ใใ€ใƒชใƒƒใƒใ‚‚ใ„ใ„ใจใ“ใ‚ใงใ—ใŸใ€‚ๅพ“ๆฅญใ•ใ‚“ใฎๅฏพๅฟœใฏใ€็ด ๆ™ดใ‚‰ใ—ใ„ใงใ™ใ€‚ๅ‚้“ใ‚„้šŽๆฎตใŒใ‚ใ‚‹ใฎใงใ€ๅญไพ›้€ฃใ‚Œใงๅฐใ•ใ„ๅญใฏใ€ๅŽณใ—ใ„ใจๆ€ใ„ใพใ™ใ€‚ ใŠ้ขจๅ‘‚ใฏใ€ใ‚ทใƒฃใƒฏใƒผใซใฏๆนฏ่ˆนใŒใชใใ€ใƒˆใ‚คใƒฌใ‚‚ไธ€็ท’ใงใƒ™ใƒ“ใƒผใŒใ„ใ‚‹ๆ–นใฏใ€ๅŽณใ—ใ„ใ€‚(้Ÿ“ๅ›ฝใฎใŠ้ขจๅ‘‚ไบ‹ๆƒ…)

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

CHANJONG

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ์กฑ

์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ์กฑ! ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์ œ์™ธ

2/10 Terrible

vincent, paris

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

dรฉception

Guesthouse pas รฉvident ร  trouver. Chambre pour deux rรฉduit ร  un placard. petit dรฉjeuner trรจs moyen. Bof bof ! trรจs dรฉรงu

8/10 Good

SO, KR

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

์ดํƒœ์› ๋ฐฑํŒจ์ปค์Šค

์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ๋˜ ์‹๋‹น์ด๋‚˜ ์ดํƒœ์› ๋™์„  ์งœ๊ธฐ๋„ ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํฐ ๋„๋กœ์— ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ณจ๋ชฉ ์•ˆ์ชฝ์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฝ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋กœ๋Š” ์†์ƒ‰ ์—†๋Š” ์ •๋„์˜€๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ธ๋ถ„๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค์„ ๋‚จ๋…€ ๊ณต๋™์‚ฌ์šฉ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ถˆํŽธํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์  ๋นผ๊ณ ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

10/10 Excellent

lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

It was great

It was a comfortable and cozy accomodation. Staff was very kind.