Pyongyang Hotels - Reviews and Rates

As agreed beforehand, everyone appeared dressed up in front of the bus. Our Korean guides turned up wearing what may have been their best, like local toffs, in smart dark blue suits, spotless white shirts and ties. Mrs Lee lagged behind none, dressed to the nines, all in elegant black. All of the guys in our group, even if many of them still in ...

Saturday in Pyongyang dawned clear as the spring water, with the sky as blue as Willie Nelson's blue eyes crying in the rain. Or Fred Rose's, if I really want to be precise. But the fact that there was not a whiff of fog this morning could probably be chalked up to the strong wind. Which made the day crystal clear, but the morning unusually cold...

But what increasingly drew attention of us all were ever more frequent groups of local people, same as the first one under that pine tree, sitting around, eating, drinking and, believe it or not, having fun. Of course, why wouldn't they have fun? But then again, we had all arrived in North Korea, each with our own baggage of prejudices, and some...

The time to gather for the new day was at nine. And the restaurant opened for breakfast at seven. There was no need to hurry and theoretically I could have slept in. Except that I didn't. For one simple reason, and that was that I had no alarm o'clock on me. There was an alarm o'clock built within the room radio, but first, the clock was some fo...

You couldn't exactly accuse the flight to Pyongyang of being overbooked. Fourteen of us, fifteen with Simon, were easily the good half of entire passenger list. The rest was made of handful of North Koreans and probably an odd Chinese or two. One could tell this was not the line you needed to book a ticket for months in advance.
I wasn't awa...

We embarked on our 24 hour train to North Korea (DPRK) with a sense of excitement and trepidation. In our carriage we met a dutch pair, who reminded us very much of bookham legends, band players, drinkers and general merrymakers Dutch and Roger- they therefore quickly aquired their new title for the trip- 'Dutch Dutch and Roger'. We had the same...

Even our flight to Korea was interesting, Air Koryo flies an old Tupolev plane that looks like no other plane I had ever seen before. The handluggage compartments are open en the chairs can fold forwards completely. The foodtrays are made of metal and the walls and window shades have an oldfashioned pattern. I had some trouble locating my seatbe...