Skybay Hotel Gyeongpo Reviews

The location is decent, making it convenient to get around. Overall, it's a good value for money, especially if it's not a holiday. At just over 400 a night, it's pretty good. The food, however, wasn't very impressive; it wasn't particularly tasty, and there's a seafood street just behind the hotel.

Hotel located near beautiful beach and lake, many restaurants nearby. Front desk and concierge staff were not very friendly.

SkyBay Hotel was great! It's changed it a lot over the past couple years. They have automated check-in now and the selection of cafes and shops in the lobby are very convenient and and open till late. The arcade is tons of fun! Visitors have the option of using the Infiniti pool and sauna for an additional fee. The staff is helpful, and the room is clean and comfortable. However, in winter you are unable to adjust the temperature of your room. The views are incredible from skyBay Hotel. No wonder they pick this location for the drama business proposal! We had a great time!

The hotel felt really upscale, a true sea-view room. Downstairs, there's a seafood street, and you can even set off fireworks on the beach – it's incredibly romantic, with half sea and half lake. The only downside was the hotel's swimming pool; the indoor one wasn't heated, so it was freezing when I got in. The outdoor hot spring pools were too crowded. Everything else was great.

It's a great location, easy to drive to this hotel. Very clean too. Had a great stay indeed!

Also good location and my room was overlooking view of the lake.  The check in took a long time and too many people at the lobby due to the check in machine was out of order.  Also too many people using the elevator and it should be improved somehow.  I don’t think I will come back for this hotel especially during peak season. There are many shops including twosome place and bhc checking and CU convinient store inside were convenient though.

Reception kindly arranged the corner room, which offered stunning lake and ocean views in the morning. Easy access to the beach and a convenient store.

The hotel room was clean, big and comfortable. I had lake view. The hotel is located near the lake, the beach and restaurants as well as convenience stores and bus stops. Gangneung Coffee Street is a bus drive of 15 minutes away. However, I was shocked when the staff informed me about the admission fee for the swimming pool: 30.000 korean won!!!! It is not mentioned on Trip.com neither ***********. Anyway, the admission fee is far too high. I have chosen the hotel for its swimming pool. Next time in Gangneung, I will choose another hotel: this hotel only offered a clean and comfortable room, for a high price, but Gangneung has many hotels with clean and comfortable rooms, that are also located nearby the beach, lake, restaurants and bus stops, but for a better price.

Go to Shilla Monogram Gangneung instead. I came to this hotel several times only because of swimming pool. But water is filthy and if you complain, they only say there are many people. The employees here are overall like that- performative, intrusive and argumentative rather than professional or helpful. Even in room, no amenities and smelled bad.

The location is excellent, very close to the beach with great views. The rooftop pool is beautiful, and it's also near many dining options. There's even a convenience store, BHC fried chicken, and burgers available within the hotel. The staff are very polite.

Very good location, right on beach. Room was quiet and clean. Staff were helpful and friendly.

We had a pleasant stay at the Skybay Hotel. The ocean view from our corner room was spectacular and well worth it. My girlfriend accidentally left her iPad in the room after we checked out, and the hotel staff were very professional and responsible in helping us coordinate the international shipping back to Malaysia. We appreciate their honesty and efficient assistance. Highly recommended for the service and the location.

i thought they had outdoor pool but when i check in they told us pool is not available at the moment. so i thought atleast i can get indoor pool but every water amenities are not working. cleaning was okay but what was that glass dirtyness

Was excited because of great reviews but totally disappointed! We paid extra for package with admission to pool, gym and sauna. Got there and went to go to the midnight swim that was advertised that was supposed to be from 10-midnight and they were locking up the pool said it closes at 10 and the swim period without kids was 9-10. As for the sauna it was closed as well. We tried to go and couldn’t and when we recheck the website there was a notice about it being closed that wasn’t there when we booked it or we wouldn’t have bought that package. We saw ads for the dinner buffet online and couldn’t wait to eat there, well, that was closed as well for some inspection the entire time we were visiting. The restaurant open was the one for breakfast. Typical breakfast buffet in Korean hotels. Except the hot/cold water dispenser was out of service and they didn’t even put out hot or cold water in pitcher or anything to accommodate it being out of service. Couldn’t make hot tea or have water to drink. Options were make carrot juice in juicer or small cans of Pepsi but they ran out of Pepsi zero after the first day and I cannot drink the regular due to sugar content. So all the reasons we picked that hotel and amenities we paid extra for were not actually available. As if that wasn’t disappointing enough the room was hot as hell. We called down and they said the thermostat was internally controlled but they would let them know we wanted it cooler. After a few hours and room still hot we called again. They came up and said it’s working fine and that was the coolest setting (23.5c) and offered to bring us a fan. So we said ok at least maybe we can cool off enough to sleep. Well, they brought up a tiny desk fan that did absolutely nothing! I’ve never been so disappointed at my stay as I was here. We didn’t get to use the amenities we paid extra for and we couldn’t sleep because it was so hot. This place was a rip off! The stay was expensive and not worth the money. Would not recommend staying here at all. This is supposed to be best hotel in the area but it’s overhyped and definitely not worth the money. Just one disappointment after another.