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Paradise Hotel Busan
Busan, South Korea · Paradise · Accessible Luxury
This stretch of Haeundae sand has had a hotel on it since February 1957, when the state railway opened a house at what is still 296 Haeundae Beach-ro. Privatized in 1969, it took the Paradise Beach name in 1981, and on July 8, 1987 Kim Jong-seong of Seoul Architecture opened the main building you see now, about 250 rooms turned toward the water, interiors by Harold Thompson. The annex came in 1999. Paradise Hotel Busan counts 529 rooms today, and seven heads of state stayed when APEC met in Busan in 2005.
- 529 rooms
- Opened 1957
- Neighborhood: Haeundae
- Architect: Kim Jong-seong
- Interiors: Harold Thompson
About Paradise Hotel Busan
- Jeon Nak-won, then chairman of Paradise Group, gave Kim Jong-seong the Busan commission. Kim, who also designed the Seoul Hilton, later said both owners simply trusted him and let him build.
- There is no 13th floor. A 1999 Busan Ilbo note explains that fifteen numbered stories are really sixteen, with the banquet halls in the low block and an outdoor hot spring on the convention roof.
- The beachfront house has served as a headquarters hotel for the Busan International Film Festival, the sand doing duty as the festival's base.
History
The site at 296 Haeundae Beach-ro, Jung-dong, has been a hotel since February 1957, when it opened as a state railway hotel. It was privatized in 1969 as the Haeundae Tourist Hotel, renamed Paradise Beach Hotel in 1981, and renamed again in November 1997 as Paradise Hotel. Work on a larger main building started in 1985 and the house opened on July 8, 1987, a special first-class hotel of about 250 rooms. Kim Jong-seong of Seoul Architecture designed it. Harold Thompson, the Los Angeles designer who had done Walker Hill in Seoul, did the interiors. Jeon Nak-won, chairman of Paradise Group, was the client.
An annex opened in 1999. The hotel now counts 529 rooms across the two buildings. During the 2005 APEC summit, seven foreign heads of state stayed, and the house has also served as a headquarters hotel for the Busan International Film Festival.
The setting
The hotel sits in the middle of Haeundae Beach, Jung-dong, Haeundae-gu. Haeundae Station on metro line 2 is about a ten-minute walk. Dongbaek Island and Nurimaru APEC House continue along the shore, BEXCO is the convention neighbor, and the sand is the front yard. The Westin Josun, the city's other old beach hotel, stands closer to the island end of the same shore.
Restaurants and bars
- On the Plate — Restaurant
- Hotel Dining — Restaurant
- Boutique Bakery — Café
- Crystal Garden — Restaurant
- Bar Nix — Bar
- Scala — Restaurant
- Nanpung — Restaurant
- Sakae — Restaurant
- Chinese Restaurant Nampoong — Restaurant · Chinese
- Japanese Restaurant 'Sakae' — Restaurant · Japanese
- Bar Nyx — Bar
- Lounge Paradise — Bar
Experiences
- Paradise Casino — Northeast Asia's first ocean casino with unrivaled Haeundae beach
- Ocean Spa Cimer — The high-end ocean spa with an open view of the sea and the sky
- Paradise Kids Village — An immersive indoor kids' kingdom of boundless imagination
- Dim Sum, a Chinese restaurant — Dim sum presented by a Dim Sum Chef from Guangzhou with 30 years of experience
Amenities
- Paradise Kids Village, an immersive indoor kids' kingdom
- Ocean terrace view
- Paradian Reward membership benefits
- Casino membership and VIP events
- Shinsegae Centum City shopping benefits
- Lotte Busan Duty Free Shop benefits
- Casino
- Barber Shop
- Bakery & Flower 'Paradise Boutique'
- #PART BUSAN
- GALLERY MARE
- Wedding Shop
- Parking Lot
- Taxi
- Kids club
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