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[Trumpcard]

A bunch of us are thinking of heading down to Busan over New Year and stay a couple of nights. Probably about 10 of us. Can anyone recommend somewhere cheap, clean and central we can stay or have we left it too late? !

[Yu_Bum_suk]

There are a number of reasonable yeogwans in Little Vladivostock, just across from Busan Station. Female members of your party, especially blonds, may be mistaken for Russian 'dancers' but that's about the only potential problem. W25,000 will get you a clean, adequate room and much more than that will get you something fairly nice.

[Tobacco Dreams]

Yu_Bum_Suk has the right idea. From experience, I'd specifically recommend QUEEN HOTEL just behind Texas Street (opposite Busan Station).

Sure, it's a "love hotel," but you aren't explicitly required to do any loving.

Rooms are clean, not cramped, and modestly but decently furnished, with cable TV. I recall having watched National Geographic TV and/or Discovery Channel on a largish screen while drinking a bottle of soju or two, and then sleeping very soundly in a large, comfy bed (with fresh-smelling satiny sheets).

The rate was 30,000, I think, but well worth it: I've paid as much or just a little less to stay in dumpy places in that neighborhood.

Look for the neon sign reading "퀸" just behind Texas Street (technically "Shanghai Street," I think, while Sucky is calling the area "Little Vladivostok"): it's all the same place, directly across the main artery running past the front of Busan Station.