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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 308 hotels
Best hotels in Seoul
The 10 most notable hotels in Seoul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Grand Mercure Ambassador Hotel and Residences Seoul Yongsan
95, Cheongpa-ro 20-gil, Yongsan-gu
400 m from Yongsan Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.235, percentile 100 of 308
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2
Aloft Seoul Myeongdong
56 Namdaemunro, Jung-gu
413 m from Euljiro 1-ga Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.235, percentile 99.67 of 308
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3
Mondrian Seoul Itaewon
23 Jangmun-ro
664 m from Itaewon Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.235, percentile 99.35 of 308
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4
Aloft Seoul Gangnam
736 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu
607 m from Cheongdam Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.235, percentile 99.02 of 308
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5
Banyan tree cub & spa seoul
Itaewon-dong
586 m from Beotigogae Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.235, percentile 98.7 of 308
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6
Fairmont Ambassador Seoul
108 Yeoui-daero
390 m from Yeouinaru Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.37 of 308
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Courtyard by Marriott Seoul Times Square
영등포동4가 442
375 m from Yeongdeungpo Metro Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 98.05 of 308
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콘래드 서울
10 Gukjegeumyung-ro
458 m from Yeouido Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 97.72 of 308
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9
voco Seoul Gangnam, an IHG Hotel
144 Dosan Daero (Nonhyun Dong), Gangnam Gu
474 m from Sinsa Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.234, percentile 97.39 of 308
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10
Andaz Seoul Gangnam - 안다즈 서울 강남
854 Nonhyun-ro, Gangnam-gu
221 m from Apgujeong Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.233, percentile 97.07 of 308
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).