We ended this series about our Sokcho trip and still had quite a few pictures left to add. So we decided to make a wrap-up post and tell you about our wonderful accommodations while on the East Coast. We found The House Hostel in our Lonely Planet guidebook and we would definitely recommend it to anyone staying in Sokcho. The Korean couple who own the hostel are extremely kind, helpful, and accommodating. The minute we walked in the door, the man sat us down at the coffee table in the lobby and unfolded an English Sokcho tourist map, then gave us a 15-minute rundown of all the interesting things to do around the town, complete with bus numbers to get to all the main tourist attractions. In addition to free breakfast every morning, we also had free access to the hostel's assortment of bikes (the guidebook had said we'd have to rent them so the free bikes were a nice surprise). All in all, buying the Lonely Planet guidebook was totally worth it just for that one piece of advice it provided!
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| This is what the hostel looked like when we first got there |
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| Outside during the day |
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| They had some pretty fancy-looking doors, till we learned it was just a film put on |
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| Hall phone |
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| Our breakfast nook |
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| The resident hostel dog, Gulumi (Goo-loo-mee) |
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| The terrace and Gulumi's lair |
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| Enjoying the quiet |
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| The kitchen where we got free breakfast |
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| Interesting strawberry jam packets (see video below for how they work if you can't figure it out by the diagram) |
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| Quite the quirky quarters |
Unfortunately we weren't able to stay at that great hostel every night: Saturday night they were already booked, so we had to relocate for that one night to a nearby motel - which was not quite as nice... Not tons worse but somewhat, plus it was more expensive. Needless to say we were happy to be able to return to the hostel for the last two nights!
