I know of a good easy wood playpen that is smaller than the excellent one cloudy linked, but it's expensive at about £50! Everything has gone up so much. I have a similar one. It's easy to take apart and fold away.
But actually your hallway sounds good. If you can close doors etc. I would check for gaps under doors though.
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