KOREAN HOTELS

These are the hotels my wife and I stayed during our visit to South Korea recently.

Night One ~ Wednesday, Oct 1, 2008
Seorak Tourist Hotel Gapyeong
After a long drive from Seoul, and visiting a place where they had a movie shot, we drove almost two hours or more through tunnels and the mountains (like driving up to Kundasang) to get to this hotel. It was really foggy and freezing. We got here at about 8pm. Hotel was nice and clean. Quaint. Two or three star maybe. Friendly services.

Night Two ~ Thursday, Oct 2, 2008
Daemyung Resort Seorak
We started early at about 7am, had Western breakfast at Gapyeong Hotel and then drove through more tunnels and ridges and valleys and river banks and paddy fields and small towns and military posts, we got to Mount Seorak National Park. What a wonderment! After a long day hiking and trekking and saw many places (even visited an tiny exotic fishing town), this is our next hotel. What a delight! I would say that it is something like Sutera Harbour Resort or Shangri-La's Tanjong Aru Resort and Spa (except no beach!!!???) Nice place. There were lots of Indonesian tourists stayed there that same night. Went to spa. Fabulous! And the rooms were designed in a very traditional Korean motifs and interior; slept on floor (Korean/Japanese style). Neat! My wife took a lot of photos of trees with Fall-like colours around this resort. Right at the front of this resort are beautiful greyish/bluish granite peaks (which reminded me of beautiful Kinabalu!).



Night Three & Four ~ Friday, Oct 3, 2008 & Saturday, Oct 4, 2008
Capital Hotel Seoul
Back to the HUGE metropolis of Seoul. We drove from all the way from the country side (very sleepy) and headed to Everland (south of Seoul) (at KK's twin-city) (and literally spent the whole day at that Disneyland-like park!) and then headed to Seoul finding our way through the freeways and highways and streets and flyovers and bridges to this hotel pictured below. Urban hotel. Big. Like Hyatt Regency Kinabalu. Very business-like hotel. Nice services. Very professional. But no three-point adapter for Malaysian electronic device??? The rooms are decorated with very old English interior! Earlier we visited a casino by the river in Seoul.
Saturday we had China breakfast and visited the Blue House and Lotte World. And headed back to this hotel late at night. Next day headed to Jeju.


Night Five & Six (final) ~ Sunday, Oct 5, 2008 & Monday, Oct 6, 2008
Palace Hotel Jeju
Jeju Island! Ah! Just like going to Hawaii, haha. Except no "Lei"!!??