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Grand Josun Busan
Busan, South Korea · Josun · Near Luxury
The hotel in the middle of Haeundae Beach has worn four names and kept the same address. It opened on 19 November 1988 as the Hyatt Regency Busan, became a Marriott in December 1999, and ran as the Novotel Ambassador from November 2006 until the doors shut at the start of 2019. On 7 October 2020 the building came back as the first Grand Josun: 330 rooms, interiors by Emil Humbert and Christophe Poyet, Picasso lithographs on the walls, and an indoor pool and an outdoor pool both looking at the sand.
- 330 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Haeundae
- Interiors: Humbert & Poyet
About Grand Josun Busan
- In the Novotel years this building held 329 rooms, and 101 of them were Korean-style ondol rooms.
- The eighth floor was planned as a children's floor, with rooms themed to sky, forest, and sea, and 178 of the 330 rooms were family twins.
- Palais de Chine, on the fifth floor, serves modern Cantonese drawn from Hongyeon at the Westin Josun in Seoul, with seven private rooms among about 100 seats.
- The Westin Josun Busan is a different hotel: the old Chosun Beach, opened in 1978, still on Dongbaek-ro.
History
This block of Haeundae Beach Road has been a hotel since 19 November 1988, when it opened as the Hyatt Regency Busan. The address is 292 Haeundaehaebyeon-ro, Jung-dong: 16 floors above ground, four below, on a site of 4,727 square meters. Marriott took the house on 1 December 1999. On 5 November 2006 the name changed to Novotel Ambassador Busan. In those years the room list ran to 329, including 101 Korean-style ondol rooms.
The Novotel closed on 2 January 2019 after a sale, and the staff were not kept on. A remodel of a year or two followed. On 7 October 2020 the building reopened as the first Grand Josun, 330 rooms. Emil Humbert and Christophe Poyet set the interiors between classic and modern, with Art Nouveau curves, Art Deco pattern, and art from Picasso lithographs to monoprints by Michael Shang. The new flag was Chosun's own five-star brand, separate from the Westin Josun that has stood on this beach since 1978.
The setting
The front door is on the middle of Haeundae Beach, at 292 Haeundae Beach Road. From the sand you can walk east toward Dongbaek Island, the Nurimaru APEC house, and Dalmaji Hill. The aquarium and Haeundae Market sit just inland of the beach.
Restaurants and bars
- ARIA — Restaurant
- PALAIS DE CHINE — Restaurant
- LOUNGE & BAR TERRACE 292 — Bar
- JOSUN DELI — Café
Experiences
- Heavenly Pool — Listed among the hotel's facilities on its website; no further details are given.
- Sauna — Listed among the hotel's facilities on its website; no further details are given.
- Fitness — Listed among the hotel's facilities on its website; no further details are given.
- Lending Library — Listed among the hotel's facilities on its website; no further details are given.
Amenities
- LENDING LIBRARY
- WEDDING
- JOSUN JUNIOR
- JOSUN LOUNGE
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