Korean Sauna - Jjimjilbang

I am a Korean-American, and I don't know if you are planning to stay only in Jjimjilbang during your visit. First, you are not going to get a room of your own. There will be strangers in a living-room-type main hall, and there will be several other small rooms for different ailments. You will not have any privacy. Storage is more like your gym locker. I am sure you can ask the front dest person to keep your luggage, and they may let you.

If you haven't been to Korea before, you will have a lot of stuff to do. You won't want to stay in Jjimjilbang all day.

Wifi / electrical outlets may not be available in places. They sell food -more like set menu, probably - and snack, but you won't have access to kitchen. $5-10 per half a day is probably right.

This question comes up occasionally. The problem is that jjimjilbangs are not hotels meant for multi-night stays. Koreans who sleep in jjimjilbangs are usually just passing through and need a place to crash at night. I've used the while on a road trip with my wife; we kept our luggage in the car. We would get there at night, sleep, then leave.

It's going to be confusing to explain that you want to stay a long period of time.

Like mentioned above, you get a gym locker in a locker room. Normally, you take a showers and sit in the baths after the locker room. Before you enter the coed area where you sleep, you must wear the clothes they provide (usually a t-shirt and shorts). You don't wear your own clothes.

It's not private. You sleep on the floor; they usually have little pillows available and thin mats; it's pretty basic. There's usually outlets around. You'll have to find one. You won't want to leave your phone unattended as it's a public area, though. There's normally wifi.

Sometimes there are restaurants and there's usually a snack bar. Wouldn't you want to eat outside, though?

I don't know about whole day prices.

Really, though, if you're in a city with dorm rooms available like a hostel, just stay there.

Well its for the experience really and i understand lack of privacy. More interested in knowing that if I was intending to stay a whole day what would I do with my larger bag if I left the sauna to go sightseeing with the intention of returning? i.e. coming and going once you have paid your money.

I also thought it would be much cheaper, but if the cost is only for half a day then its not really.

There are larger lockers available at train and metro stations.

You're not going to want to stay the whole day. I understand you're looking for an experience, but it's really just something to do for a couple hours. Try going after dinner, go to the baths and then hang out and sleep overnight. You will be bored eventually.

Also, going to the jjimjilbang is generally a social activity. Not many people go alone. Really, it's just a place to hang out with friends comfortably outside of the house. People do, however, just use the baths alone and then leave (I do this often. You can pay about 6,000 won just to use the baths). It's quite relaxing.

I stayed in a jjimjilbang in Unseo, a "suburb" of Incheon AIrport. For ~US$8 (can't remember how many won) for a night, I got a locker and a place - uncomfortable, and cozy in the pejorative sense - to sleep. It was clean enough though, and for that price, it's hard to complain.

I had to wake up early, I put my alarm clock under the non-pillow pillow. Also, people will be shuffling in and out at all different times, so if you have a difficult time sleeping, this would be very bad idea.

Current traveling as back packer with my hubby in seoul at the moment. I wouldnt recommend sauna if you have big lugguage. Try airbnb korea if you want a cheap place to stay. I got mine fore 216$ for two weeks that is the price for two peole. You got your own room.