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sentient_squirrel · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

Went to Chiaksan park, then into Wonju for the night.

Aahh, I think, finally my chance to stay in one of these saunas everyone raves about! And cheap!

It's a motel room with a bath. It was W20,000.

Have I been ripped off or has everyone been having me on?

soviet_man · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul

Sounds about right.

My local neighborhood one costs 4,000 won daytime before 6pm or 15,000 overnight (after 6pm).

dangsangirl · Joined: 27 May 2006

I'd say you stayed in a motel. The symbol for saunas and motels is the same. It's a bit confusing at first.

poet13 · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:44 am Post subject:

isnt a sauna the public place where korean men grunt and point at you, your tats, and your oversize dingle-dangle?

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

20,000 won?

That's bloody cheap for a motel with a bath.

sentient_squirrel · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

I guess so. I just heard all these dream stories of them being w10,000 with beautiful saunas 'n stuff, and you have your own room as a side.

rocklee · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul

Saunas are a lot cheaper than motels, 10,000won is on the high side I would presume.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I've never heard of a regular sauna that gives you your own room. Every time I've gone, I've paid about 7,000 won and had to sleep in either a community area on the floor, or in a room for only men on the floor.

It's always a back-breaking sleeping experience. But at least you can get a nice bath when you wake up.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

If its your bag, you can have a sauna experience, plus private overnight room to yourself, but you'll also have to tolerate an hour of a hot Korean girl giving you a nude body massage before you can get to your room. Expect to pay 160K at the low end.

Buff · Joined: 07 Apr 2004

Sounds like a motel to me. Most saunas don't have a bath, they usually have a few baths and there are lots of naked people. Were there lots of naked people?

sentient_squirrel · Joined: 17 Jul 2006

No naked people.

Buff · Joined: 07 Apr 2004

Definitely not a sauna.

EdInstead · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

For an overnight sauna experience that is worth anything you want to stay in a jjimjilbang 찜질방 . They vary a lot in quality. You don't get your own room. Some are freakin fantastic places with awesome scenery, 10+ different baths and 10+ different saunas. They also include PC Rooms, restaurants, movie rooms, 노래방s and so on. If you get a good one. If you get a bad one you might get like 3 baths, a sauna, and a man who rolls on top of you and expects SXE because you're in a gay one and you didn't realise. That is kinda sucky. Unless you trick one of the lesbians into going straight. Then it can be fun.

poet13 · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

"If you get a bad one you might get like 3 baths, a sauna, and a man who rolls on top of you and expects SXE because you're in a gay one and you didn't realise. That is kinda sucky. Unless you trick one of the lesbians into going straight. Then it can be fun."

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