Korean Hotel

Staying at a Korean Hotel was actually really cool. Just like a regular hotel it comes with a bed, sofa, some snacks in the fridge that I didn't dare touch in case I had to pay for them,...

However there were some things that I noticed that were a little unique, unless I just haven't stayed in a hotel in a really long time and this is just how hotels are now.

Instead of little throwaway travel tubes of shampoo/conditioner and the like, in my Korean hotel were regular sized for everyone to use until they were gone: shampoo and conditioner (both men's and women's), lotion, moisturizer, shaving cream, face masks, bubble bath...  There was a big bathtub and a shower, a little vanity area, and the toilet.

The toilet had so many buttons I didn't even know what to do. They did sprays and other things that I couldn't even decide what they were for. But the most impressive, the oddest? I don't really know. The most striking thing was that the inside of the toilet bowl was illuminated by a beautiful blue light. I can't really fathom the reason. Alien contact? Probably too many wives and girlfriends and sisters on vacation getting up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and getting annoyed when they fell in because no one put down the seat.

Like pretty much all home/home-like dwellings, there is an entryway space for taking off shoes, with an automatic light (like the stairwell), and a second door - possibly to keep in the shoe stank?

Also in this area is a small slot on the wall for the keycard. Not only does this prevent the loss of said keycard within the room, it actually has a way more important function. Nothing in the room will turn on without a keycard. The lights, apart from the automatic light, the electricity, the shower, etc. Not even the toilet will flush without the keycard. I presume that this has to do with making sure people aren't leaving all the lights on or the water running when they leave the room. Pure conjecture: maybe it also has to do with knowing when the guest has left the room so that house keeping can come in?

Anyway here is the view from my hotel window.