Misadventures of a Person Without a Fake Name

Feb. 20, 2012 at 3:30pm with 7 notes

Escape to Seoul Day 1 (Part 1 of 2)

Almost 6 months ago, Seoul was just a dream. It was a plan that was out of reach. Impossible. It’s only on TV, on YouTube, in my mind. But who would have thought that OUR Seoul experience will happen???

My dear friend , driventolive told her mom about how we truly oh-so-want to go to Korea. And lo and behold, plane tickets were booked, the hotel was booked, and all we have to do is to plan our itinerary, our outfits and lust for more Seoul videos/Kdramas/music videos before we actually step on the Land of Morning Calm. We instantly became two girls who will explore a new city, who will soon escape reality, hoping to find answers, creating new dreams, who will soon have fun in a far away land, divulging in the culture, the people, the Korean way of life.

THE BIG DAY. March 22, 2011.

Nothing really happened during the check-in (well except for the 12KG, 15KG and 13.5 KG bags that we have) and before boarding, except for the “I still can’t believe we’re going to Korea” phrases that we exchange and the “OMG, we’re boarding the plane, are we really going there???” questions we ask each other.

Korean Air offers Bibimbap onboard. Of course we had to try it out!

I slept through the whole flight (I got sick too because I lack sleep for almost a week before the trip. Barf. And well, I went to the office too the morning of our flight).

TOUCHDOWN! March 23, 2011.

Incheon Airport was breathtaking. No wonder it was one of the most awesome airports in the whole world. (We don’t have any photo of our arrival. We were so amazed we forgot to take one. Or did we delete it by accident??)

Anyway, we were picked up by our friendly driver Mr. Yoon who speaks little English, but even so, we were able to understand him. His van’s got GPS (and we later learned that almost every car/vehicle especially the cabs got one too) and he even showed us the Hangang River as we pass by it.

GOOD MORNING SEOUL.

At around 5-6 AM, we arrived in Seoul and witnessed how it was early in the morning. :) It was peaceful. It was spectacular.

When we got to the hotel, we actually planned on looking around Jonggak area since we didn’t have any plans for that day. But we were so groggy and so sleepy we decided to check in early to get some sleep.

We stayed in Hotel The Sun Bee. I’m not sure what room we got but as far as I can remember their deluxe room is as low as 99,000 Won (around Php 4,500) per night. NOT BAD BECAUSE I SUPER DUPER LOVE OUR ROOM.

- complete with shampoos, hair sprays, shaving cream, lotions, toner and even a comb!

I’m not sure if other hotel rooms have a desktop PC included but Hotel Sunbee does. AND THE INTERNET CONNECTION’S FREAKING FAST. IT’S FAST, I TELL YOU MY FRIEND. It’s got a big bathroom with shower and tub, and the ‘powder room’ makes us look even prettier. Haha! With Big LCD TV with DVD/VHS player, 1 queen size (was it?) bed and a single bed, the place is heavenly.

After kind of settling down, we slept from 7 AM until 2 PM. And it was lovely.