LABE Hotel

Although it's located outside the hanok village, it's very easy to reach the hotel by taxi or bus (10–15 minutes). The room is spacious and equipped with every amenity. Breakfast is plentiful and features an international selection. The staff is friendly and helpful. Excellent value for the price.

I'll try to be honest but fair. It's actually a great little budget hotel, it just wasn't what we were expecting based on the listing. But I would recommend it as long as you've researched the location and understand that it's a smaller hotel. It's great value compared with the over-priced bigger hotels in the tourist zone. There are many positives: - The simple, healthy, complimentary breakfast is great. We liked the fresh fruit, yoghurt, cherry tomatoes, boiled eggs, and toast. - There was a cool machine in the wardrobe that airs and/or dries your clothes. Once we figured out how to use it, we loved it. :-) - If you're a walker/runner, you can get to the great river walking/cycle paths to the west in about 5-10 minutes. The big Lotte department store and a big eMart is directly north up the main road, but that's about 20-25 minutes. But it's a good trek if you need to get your steps, and the Lotte food court has some fantastic, well-priced meals. - The bed was definitely premium. I couldn't feel my partner turn/get in and out of bed. Very comfy. - It's not near the tourist areas, but we quite enjoyed that. We stayed in town for 4 nights and then here. We got to see a bit more of the everyday Jeonju in this location.

- There weren't many places to put your stuff - shelves or benches, etc. - just the ground. And there wasn't much wardrobe space. Some hooks on the walls for towels, coats, and hats would also be handy. - There were only paper cups. We ended up buying our own mugs from the Daiso up the road (about 5-10 min walk) because we were there for 4 nights and drink a lot of tea and coffee. - Other people have mentioned the lack of shower screen so I won't go on about it. Can be managed better if you hold the shower head in your hand. - No room safe, but maybe that's not common in smaller hotels here... - fyi, the bathroom door is semi transparent, with some clear sections, and doesn't seal at the top and bottom. This type of thing is increasingly common in modern hotels, so I'm calling it out. We miss proper bathroom doors with privacy, sigh :-( - These comments aren't meant to be mean, just fyi's :-)

The room and ensuite were a great size, and I found the hotel to be in a great location. It was only a short walk to the bus stops we needed, and a short taxi ride to the bus station. The room was really clean and had an air purifier which was pretty cool. It was quite warm and humid while we were in Jeonju so we made good use of the aircon in the room - I can confirm it works very well. The hotel had breakfast which included toast, a wide array of fruit, eggs, cereal, yoghurt and juice, and it was quite convenient being able to put our food on a tray to eat back in our room.

The only issue I had with my stay was noise. I am not sure if there was a family above us or a room was being cleaned at midnight, but the stomping, dragging of chairs and toilet flushing kept us up and impacted our sleep both nights we were there. If I was staying longer I probably would have raised this with management, as I think it may have been more a case of noisy guests than a reflection on sound proofing of the rooms. Other than this issue we enjoyed our stay.

Room was a decent size and full of gadgets, although sometimes this over-complicated things.

There were quite a few little niggly things that annoyed me about this place: All the lights on a central panel, on the opposite wall to the bed. Bath towels about the size of face cloths. Breakfast served in reception and then taken to your room. Little to no English spoken by staff. Location miles from anywhere of any interest. Wet room that remained wet for ages as drain was partially blocked. Being offered early check-in 2 hours before official check-in time for almost 50% of room rate - we politely declined the offer. Other than that....