What's the experience of staying in a super hotel in North Korea?

Yangjiao Island Hotel is a super hotel in North Korea, which is different from domestic hotels, regardless of star rating. Super Hotel is the best hotel in North Korea, equivalent to a five-star hotel in China. Almost all South Korean tourists visiting North China are arranged to stay in Yangjiao Island. Yangjiao Island Hotel is located on an island in Datong River, surrounded by water and separated from downtown Pyongyang by a bridge. Yangjiao Island Hotel has an indoor swimming pool, sauna, KTV and billiards hall.

Except for hotel staff, ordinary locals are not allowed to enter Yangjiao Island Hotel. There is also a reason for arranging foreign tourists to stay at Yangjiao Island Hotel. Because this hotel is in the city center, but it can be isolated from the local people. Standing on the upper floor of Yangjiao Island Hotel, you can overlook the center of Pyongyang and see the street view along the Datong River, which is the most concentrated place of high-rise buildings and the most prosperous place in Pyongyang.

Our dinner is arranged at Yangjiao Island Hotel. The waiters in the hotel are all carefully selected. They are tall and beautiful, and some of them can speak a few Chinese. In the next few days, many of my group meals were also settled here. Breakfast is a buffet, and the variety of food is beyond imagination. We were arranged to live on the twenty-third floor, and the size and equipment of the room were equivalent to the domestic four-star standard. Air conditioning, refrigerator and TV are all available.

There is a shop on the first floor of Yangjiao Island Hotel, which mainly sells souvenirs and food from North Korea. Although most of these handicrafts are rough in my opinion, they are expensive. Some ordinary tourists will buy some Korean cigarettes, while others will buy souvenirs. The goods in the shop are priced in euros. Although it is priced in euros, it also accepts RMB. And I found that RMB is more widely circulated here. Probably like China people before, they think that foreign tourists from afar are local tyrants, so the prices of shops are also very high. Although North Koreans love China people, they love RMB even more.

Korean national costumes are also on sale in the shops. In my opinion, Korean national costumes are not very beautiful. Generally, ladies' skirts are waist-tied. Korean national costumes are tied directly under the chest, which looks a bit awkward. However, according to my observation, the price of a Korean national costume made of ordinary nylon is as high as 1,000 yuan, which is staggering.