Novotel Ambassador Doksan

This was a strictly business stay (though I did mix in some exploration of course!) as I finally made my way to my last stop in Asia-Pacific.

Budget travellors: Skip this and move on. This is a business class hotel.

Rather off-center actually, there aren't really a lot of things around the hotel, save for some restaurants and convenient stores, though I did manage to grab dinner from a restaurant among a row of shophouses a little further down the road. (It was a great mime exercise. The local restauranter not speaking a word of English and me not a drop of Korean - but hey, I got my sumptuous dinner!)

The room was really comfortable and I greatly adore the in-house Korean bath/spa (segregated by sex). A great way to relax down after a long day in the office. There were 3 hot tubs - and I am still puzzled at the presence of 1 @ 60C! Boil yourself to death Korean style? Your very own Jigae?

There was a bar/pub within the hotel - almost died from cigarette smoke poisoning when I had a meeting there with my Korean colleagues. The in-house Korean restaurant served impeccable food though quite honestly I enjoyed my street forays more!

Service was impeccable. All staff are smiling - nary a worry in the world, always. Remarkable. Room was immaculately clean and tidied and a bowl of fresh food offered always.

Unique Quality: The Korean bath/spa thing was most appreciated.

The warm and smiling service next.