Yanggakdo Hotel

... curiosity. Who cares that much to get something that perfect when all around is crumbling?   We check into our Yanggakdo Hotel - 47 storeys of magnificence just coincidentally located on an island in the river. The Alcatraz of tourism. ...

... or caused by electricity problems and fuel shortage I don't know, probably a combination of all three. Arrival at the hotel was surreal, Yanggakdo Hotel is a luxury hotel on an island in one of the rivers of Pyongyang. Knowing what we know about the ...

... nearly 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, ...

... Philippinen 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 ...

Pyongyang stands on the Taedong river. On an island in the river is the Yanggakdo hotel, one of a handful of hotels open to foreigners in the capital. The Yanggakdo's island location is ideal for preventing guests from wandering off unsupervised. The ...

The barmaids in the Yanggakdo hotel are clearly chosen to give the visitor a good impression of the country. They are very pretty and chatty and in many ways just like barmaids anywhere else in the world. They may have lived their entire lives in a ...

... is owned and run by the North Korean authorities. The waitresses are all North Korean, and like the barstaff in the Yanggakdo hotel, are extremely pretty. North Korea is eager to show the world its most attractive face. It was suggested that the ...

... wiped out from the map by American bombs, there were in fact less than 10 buildings standing after the war..! Our hotel is the "Yanggakdo" on an artificial island in the middle of the Taedong river. My first North Korean beer, it tastes excellent. On ...

... . Euros, RMB, or USD only! The disturbing thing for me was that every single one of these ammenities, and the hotel itself, was nearly always packed with customers. Tourists buying traditional North Korean dresses. Tourists buying traditional North Korean ...

... - by 4 metres at most. We returned to Pyonyang for a final meal and some beers in a revolving restaurant in our hotel. Discussions about US foriegn policy were held- but far more amusing- teaching north koreans phrases such ...

... something big is shaping up to happen... While we were at lunch (at 4pm) we could see from the 47th floor of our hotel hundreds of military vehicles queuing up on roads nearby. On the drive from the lunch to the School Children's performance we were ...

... 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 a ...

... is Yanggakdo. And that particular island was of interest to us as our hotel was located there. The "Yanggakdo Gugje" hotel or "Yanggakdo International" hotel, the place where we would stay every night while in Pyongyang. Of course, the section of the ...

... foggy. Whatever. At any event, it was windy and rather cold. From up here on the thirty fifth floor of the "Yanggakdo Gugje Hotel", however, I had some great view on the still mostly sleeping city below. Pyongyang was still in a low murmur, mumbling ...