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Empire Tourist Hotel

3.0 star property

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Lunch and dinner served, Japanese cuisine
Property entrance
Twin Room | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains
Deluxe Room | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains
Lobby

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Restaurant
  • Air-conditioning
  • Breakfast available
  • Laundry room
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

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25, Imbangul-daero 800beon-gil, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, 62277
  • Place, Ssangam Park
    โ€ช9 min walkโ€ฌ
  • Place, 1913 Songjeong Station Market
    โ€ช17 min driveโ€ฌ
  • Place, Juknokwon Bamboo Forest
    โ€ช25 min driveโ€ฌ
  • Airport, Gwangju (KWJ-Gwangju Intl.)
    โ€ช14 min driveโ€ฌ

Room options

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Standard Room | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains

Standard Room

  • 53 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Deluxe Room | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains

Deluxe Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • 60 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Twin Room | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains

Twin Room

  • 66 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Single Bed

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Traditional Room, 1 Bedroom (Korean Ondol) | Premium bedding, in-room safe, laptop workspace, blackout curtains

Traditional Room, 1 Bedroom (Korean Ondol)

  • 50 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Futons

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About this property

Empire Tourist Hotel

Hotel with a restaurant, in the vicinity of Gwangju National Museum
A restaurant, concierge services and dry cleaning are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk and express check-in are on-site.
Empire Tourist Hotel offers 43 air-conditioned accommodations, which are accessible via exterior corridors, and features a safe and complimentary bottles of water. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels and pay-per-view films. Bathrooms include a combined bath/shower unit with a deep soaking bath, bathrobes, designer toiletries and complimentary toiletries.

Guests can surf the web using complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include telephones along with free local calls (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include a hairdryer and fans. In-room massages and an iron/ironing board can be requested. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered on a daily basis.

During your stay at Empire Tourist Hotel, you're just a quick walk from Ssangam Park. Features include free WiFi in public areas, plus a restaurant and breakfast (surcharge).
  • Free WiFi
  • Enjoy Japanese cuisine while dining at Hemi
  • Korean breakfast served weekdays for a fee
  • Services include dry cleaning/laundry, a concierge and tour or ticket assistance
  • 8 minutes by car from Jungoe Park and 10 minutes from Gwangju National Museum
There's a restaurant on site. Public spaces have free WiFi. Multilingual staff, tour/ticket assistance, and concierge services are also featured at Empire Tourist Hotel.

This 3-star Gwangju hotel is smoke free.

For a fee, guests can enjoy a Korean breakfast on weekdays from 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM.
Hemi โ€“ This restaurant specialises in Japanese cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Food and drink

  • Weekday Korean breakfast available 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM for a fee: KRW 10,000 per person
  • A restaurant

Restaurants on site

  • Hemi

Family friendly

  • In-room refrigerator
  • Laundry facilities
  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour and ticket assistance
  • Turndown service

Spa

  • In-room massages
  • Thai massages

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Braille/raised signage
  • Lift
  • Wheelchair accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel

More

  • Mosquito nets
  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Blackout drapes
  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Deep soaking bathtub
  • Designer toiletries
  • Dressing gowns
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower/bathtub combination
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with cable channels
  • Pay films

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Free bottled water
  • Refrigerator

More

  • Access via exterior corridors
  • Air conditioning
  • Fan
  • Free local calls
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Laptop workspace
  • Phone
  • Safe
  • Soundproofed rooms

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; check-in end time: 11:00 AM
Late check-in subject to availability
Express check-in available
Minimum check-in age - 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon
Late check-out subject to availability
A late check-out fee will be charged
Express check-out available

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! Children stay free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cots (infant beds) are not available.

Payment types at the property

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for Korean breakfast: from approximately KRW 10000 per person
  • Late check-out is available for a fee (subject to availability)

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards
Cashless transactions are available
Safety features at this property include a carbon monoxide detector, a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, a first aid kit and window guards
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.
If you cancel your booking, you'll be subject to the host's cancellation policy. In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, property booking services are not subject to the right of withdrawal.

We should mention

  • Children stay free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.

National rating

Property class, provided by our rating system, is based on property type, amenities and services.

Property is also known as

Empire Tourist Gwangju
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Empire Tourist Hotel Gwangju
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Empire Tourist Hotel Gwangju
Empire Tourist Hotel Hotel Gwangju

Empire Tourist Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 25 out of 60 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 25 out of 60 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 7 out of 60 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 60 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 60 reviews

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

2/10 Terrible

Richard

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was no good
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

John

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was one of the nicest hotels weโ€™ve stayed in and it was only $68 USD a night! Iโ€™ve paid more than $68 USD in taxes/fees at other hotels!
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Hee kak

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was amazing Clearness was excellent Everything was very good
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Gary, Texas

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hotel is very nice and the staff was wonderful! The bed was the traditional hard mattress and not very comfortable. You have a choice between a Korean or Continental style breakfast. There are many restaurants, shops, and things to do in the immediate area. The one major complaint we had was the air conditioner drained into the bathroom. This is not unusual in Korea but the water did not run straight to the drain; it pooled around the drain and we had a pool of water in the bathroom by the sink and toilet.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020

10/10 Excellent

Neha

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hotel empire tourist stay

It was a good stay, the staff was able to speak in English and were very helpful. They were available all the time. Have free parking
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Excellent

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Terrible check in

Actually, room is clean.what is the problem? I booked the twin beds room but they just gave me the standard room ...
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

YOUNGSU

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in May 2025

8/10 Good

jong ku

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•œ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ๋˜๊ฑด ์ฃผ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ํŽธ๋ฆฌ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋งŒ์ ์ธ๋ฐ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์•„์‰ฌ์› ์–ด์š”
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024

8/10 Good

Jung sik

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2024

8/10 Good

Cheon Seog

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Inchul

Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Cheon Seog

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Cheon Seog

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•จ
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

CO LTD

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
์ข‹์•„์š”
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Cheonseog

Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Myun

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
์ˆ™์†Œ ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒ€์›Œ์ฃผ์ฐจ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด ๊ฐ€์„ฑ๋น„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

eunsil

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

CheonSeog

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

seokgon

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

6/10 Okay

byungyun

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

8/10 Good

SU JIN

Stayed 3 nights in May 2022

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
์ผ๋‹จ ์ฃผ์ฐจ์žฅ์ด ์ข€ ํ˜‘์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ณ€์ด ์ƒ๊ฐ€,์œ ํฅ๊ฐ€๋ผ ์ข€ ์‹œ๋„๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์š”
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

4/10 Poor

Yun Jeong

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง์›๋ถ„๋„ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜์„ธ์š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ํ™˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋„ ๋‹ด๋ฐฐ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋น ์ ธ์š” ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋„์š” ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ์— ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•ด์„œ..๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋นจ๋ž˜ ์•ˆ๋นค ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ์˜ท์— ๋ฐฐ๊ฒจ์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ๋ณ„๋กœ์—์š” ๋ณด์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•ด์„œ ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์นจ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋”ฑ๋”ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

10/10 Excellent

jonghyuk

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2020