Koryo Hotel

...  counter attack from the south... and the Chinese volunteers!On my personal wish, we visit the stamp shop besides the Koryo Hotel.They have very special collections of stamps, lots of  the designs are of political nature, celebrating their ...

... duck meat bbq we visited the US Spy Ship Pueblo, the Pyongyang metro system, the Party Monument, the stamp shop, had a beer at the Koryo Hotel and finally we visited the birthplace of Kim Il Sung. From the house where he grew up we walked up the hill to ...

... as a matrix of cold blue-white squares. There are many apartment blocks like this, and above them all the two towers of the Koryo hotel stand clear, topped with red lights. The Koryo is the other hotel in the city available to foreigners. Whether it has a ...

... top floor there was allegedly a revolving restaurant. Being on an island, with no other high rises around, basically wherever in the hotel you were, above certain level you could have a splendid view of the city. And definitely so from the floor number ...

First relieved moment of the day: I won't lie. I have been nervous about flying Air Koryo ever since I booked this trip to the DPRK. It is the only airline in the world with a one star (out of five) safety rating. Europe won't allow the majority of Koryo ...

... nbsp;Clearly this was the trickiness of westerners that he had been warned of. Day 3, Monday I awoke from a night in a "traditional" hotel. In Korean/ Japanese style, we slept on woven mats on the superheated floor. I wondered how they kept the ...

... random floors and the doors were off kilter as well, luckily we all made it out alive! The basement floor of the hotel has all the entertainment; billiarts, karaoke, bowling (made in the USA!) and a casino, nightclub and massage parlour run completely ...

... the entire city had gone black and our skyscraper hotel was a lone lighted beacon shooting out of the darkness. The Yanggakdo Hotel is a study in 1970's extravagance. The pink and grey lobby impresses guests with its sheer expanse of cool, gleaming ...

... ausgewandert und dort Schmuckhaendler geworden. Jedes Jahr eine neue philippinische Freundin, wollte immer in die Sauna im Yanggakdo Hotel (welches ein Bordell war, chinesisch gefuehrt wie das Casino, kein Zugang fuer Nordkoreaner), war aber immer vor ...

... off. And entirely unnecessary, by the way. At the very end of the day, back in the „Yanggakdo Gugje“ hotel, I certainly didn’t mind being again in this four-star accommodation. Or deluxe, according to North Korean standards. After rather ...

... auch in Nordkorea blueht (unter Glashaus Bedingungen). Als Highlight sind vier Leute unserer Gruppe (inkl. mir) und Simon von Koryo Tours vom Nordkoreanischen Fernsehen gefilmt worden, wir sind jetzt Teil eines vier teilers (wir haben aber nur die ersten ...

... the old doctor had been much shorter than the Chairman, so the Chairman would have felt like a basketball player in a three-star hotel bed, i.e. with his feet dangling over the edge. Furthermore, as the Soviets had made only the cover out of crystal, ...

... a large courtyard. And there, almost unexpectedly, I noticed this small, almost shy and at the same glaring board advertising Koryo Tours. "There we are," I said pointing at the board, painted yellow, picturing a widely smiling worker, his right fist ...

... his boarding card with his full and proper name. Once the mess was cleared, along with some friendly help from the Air Koryo airport office boss, who obviously knew Simon, I was finally given permission to join the passport control myself. "Sorry," Simon ...

... , when PingPing parked and announced: "Here we are." "Already!?" I had a room booked in the "Red Lantern House", a hotel which targeted mostly independent travellers and backpackers, located in a siheyuan, a dying breed in one of increasingly few ...

... 14 Leuten, dieses Jahr fahren nicht soviele Westler wie letztes Jahr, da sind 2000 nach Nordkorea gefahren, 1000 davon mit Koryo... Unsere Visas sind erst heute eingetroffen, weil die Botschaft in Berlin lange gebraucht hat um das Visa fuer den einzigen ...

... take photos of the countryside - but actually, the views werent that great. that night, we stayed in a traditional style hotel - 18th century building, with under floor heating. it was actually surprisingly cosy!! we 'helped' prepare dinner, by pounding ...

... ;    It's a morning start.  I get a taxi to Ya Show Department Store because it is next to Koryo's office.  The bellboy at the hotel was trying to warn me that Ya Show wouldn't be open yet and I was going to early.  It's ...

... for me that I could sleep in. This time it was for two reasons. First, "Red Lantern House 2" isn't necessarily the quietest hotel u Beijing and whoever books an accommodation there should count with it. Besides, when I know I need to be somewhere at an ...