Sosan Hotel

Pyongyang


This hotel with decent, renovated rooms is used mainly by visiting sports teams. It's generally held to be the best of the budget hotels in Pyongyang (although both terms are, of course, relative). There's a small garden outside where a bar and food stalls are set up in summer, as well as a restaurant, coffee shop, billiards and golf range.


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