Best hotel Imperial Palace offers best business environment

Located in the heart of the business and cultural districts in Gangnam, Imperial Palace Seoul is not only a landmark but also a perfect environment for business people who visit the southern Seoul district.

The establishment holds strength as a business hotel reinforced with modern IT services, including 42-inch LCD television in guestrooms and PDP television in suite rooms, and high-speed and wireless Internet services.

The Business Center is also equipped with up-to-date IT facilities such as a projector, 42-inch PDP screen and professional translation and interpretation services.

The hotel’s versatile banquet halls also make meetings and conventions successful through dignified interior design, state-of-the-art facilities and convenient transportation.

Any type of gathering is available there, from large-scale international events, high-tech conferences, seminars and business meetings to gala events and theme parties.

Antique-style Dubhe Hall has a capacity to serve 1,000 persons, while elegant Selena Hall can hold up to 800 people. Five other halls are available for small or medium-sized meetings for various purposes.

The hotel’s experienced staffe offer customized service to make events successful, meeting each group’s needs from the planning stage to the final delivery.

While Imperial Palace Seoul’s business facilities are modern and cutting-edge, the interior of the hotel is antique. The hotel Chairman Sin Chul-ho wanted to provide customers with a sophisticated and elegant atmosphere with art gallery-like decorations that are usually found in Europe.

The hotel has 430 guestrooms, including 35 suites. Some of its unique rooms include 16 duplex suites, 12 spa rooms decorated with marble and “ondol” (Korean floor-heating system), as well as very unique royal suites.

For dining, 13 restaurants and bars are ready with top quality ingredients and prestigious chefs _ Japanese and Chinese restaurants where guests can have exclusive meetings in private rooms; buffet restaurant offering dishes from many countries; all-day dining cafe; and bars where businesspeople can have social gatherings for entertainment. The poolside BBQ buffet and the pool bar are also famous venues for evening cocktails.

Club Imperial Lounge for club floor guests is a perfect place to host small meetings in a calm and private environment with beverage and snacks available throughout the day.

Unlike the usual club lounges at other hotels, the interior of Imperial Palace Seoul’s lounge is a reproduction of a traditional Korean roof tile house, along with traditional-style furniture and kitchen facilities such as a fireplace with iron pots.

The hotel’s fitness club offers a luxurious space to exercise or relax, featuring up-to-date gym equipment, group exercise zone, rock-climbing facilities, squash court, swimming pool and a sauna, along with an outdoor driving range.

Imperial Palace Seoul’s “intimate service” is also renowned and includes a seated front desk, one-to-one escort service from front to guestrooms, free valet parking service for female guests and real-name system for room maids.

The hotel won the top prize in the “Favorite Business Hotel” category of TIME Readers’ Travel Choice Awards 2006 selected by Time Asia, the first of its kind for a Korean hotel.

To expand its international network, Imperial Palace opened IP Hotel Fukuoka in Japan in 2007, Imperial Palace Waterpark Resort & Spa in Cebu, the Philippines, in 2009, and IP Boutique Hotel in Itaewon, Seoul, Korea, in 2010.