Laon on 37

Twenty-four-hour security and a 9.6 guest rating mark Laon on 37, a beachfront property on Nampo 2-gil in Tongyeong, the port city on South Korea's south coast sometimes called the "Naples of Korea" for its layered hillside skyline and island-dotted harbor.

Rooms face the sea directly, with private terraces, flat-screen TVs with streaming, minibars, and marble-tiled bathrooms with bidets. An on-site coffee house handles mornings; a mobile app manages room service without front-desk calls.

Tongyeong sits two hours by express bus from Busan, with the Hallyeo Maritime National Park ferry terminal a short walk along the waterfront. The Dongpirang mural village and Gangguan Port fish market are both reachable on foot.