Once i am back here, right the next day morning i had a bad purging for three days, that explain i still on my blog break. Now, i am all well and back on blogging track again and i will blog about my recent family trip to Korea. Don't feel bored ya. :)
We arranged this trip quite "rush" and quite last minute, it just a month before we fly off. It's me and my hub third time going to Korea, we went there before we had kids. Since this trip was travelling with kids, we decide to go on our own instead of joining tour, knowing the "rushing" timing, so i name this trip as our "adventure" tour to Korea, since the communication in Korea is a barrier.
We took Cathay Pacific because they are having some promotion, but one thing we need to stop by Hong Kong for transit. Our flight on the 21/2 late afternoon at 5.45pm, reached HK at 9.30pm, we have already in mind, what we want to do with the 3 hours transit. Once flight touch down, we went to transit hall, then we walked "super fast" from Gate 60+ to the eatries near immigration.
Althought this is not their first time flying, but they are still very excited. Look at the picture, they are not looking at the cartoon on the screen, they are paying full attention on the safety instruction given by the stewardess. LOL!!
reached HKIA, hub and the boys walked so fast...i am at the back try to catch up with them.
reached this place, i remember this is the eateries that we bought our roast goose back last two year, but this time, they have change name. No wonder some of my friends cannot find it. For those who go to HK and want to pack the roast goose back, this is the place for the roast goose rice.
the name of the eatery "Zhen Dou" in Cantonese.
we are the last two customer...it is already 10.30pm.
this is our supper - roast goose rice. Two bowl of roast goose rice - RM60+!!
we order porridge for my boys, but they seems they prefer our rice more than their porridge. :S
After our satisfy and yummy late supper, we rush ourselves to the departure hall again. Flight from HK to Korea took about 3 hours + , four of us sleep through the journey and ignore the in flight meal.
Reached Incheon International Airport at 4.45am (Korea time), their time are an hour earlier than MY. That explain the airport was quite quiet at that hour. We find our way to take the train to transfer to another terminal to get our baggage and also immigration.
look at my two boys, they are still have tons of energy at this hour.
as for me, i am dead tired, i just want to sleep.
We spent some time at the airport and hub go around and get some brouchers, map and transport info and asking around where and how to take aiport bus to the hotel. While he walking around, me and the boys waiting and i had my cuppa of coffee from the convenient store.
monkeying and get dress up and wait for our bus to come and bring us to the hotel.
Bus ticket for adults around RM40+ per way per adult
Bus ticket for kids around RM30 per way per kid.
It took about 1 hour+ to reach our hotel, Grand Ambassador Seoul.
time schdule for the Korea Airport Limousine (KAL) from the hotel to airport and also the route.
We reached hotel before 9am, knowing it is a bit too early for us to check in and this hotel is always running full. When i made my room booking i did put on request saying we are early arrival, but since the hotel was running full, they also can't do much. No room for us, so we told them we walked around first and have breakfast.
The view of the hotel we stayed.
We walked and maybe it is still early, a lot shop and restaurant still not open. We saw this, a very small shop in the centre of the road, we went in and had our first breakfast here. Inside the shop was small, it only had 4 tables, but the food was nice, we even go back again on our forth day.
this is the shop
the menu on the wall, lucky got picture and with english word.
my korean instant noodles. Nothing beat a bowl of hot and spicy noodles soup in the cold cold morning.
hub order some sushi, not exactly sushi, taste a bit different, suppose this for my boys, but they just eat one.
Kimchi, every meal we had, they will give complimentary kimchi. I don't really fancy about kimchi, i prefer their pickles. :)
hub's hot and spicy seafood noodles.
we order something wrong, don't know why it come out another bowl of noodles. It look spicy right? Actually it taste good, not too spicy and the noodles are COLD!!!!! I love this noodles, but i am too full to finish it. Winter eat cold noodles? My teeth cannot take it. LOL
After our breakfast, we walked around and bought some pastries for my boys, since they don't have their breakfast and also check out their subway, since we got lots of time to kill.
this is the small slope and the route we need to walk everyday if we took subway back to hotel.
it is the view once we come out from the subway, another side of the city.
nearby our hotel, there are some exercise "machine" on the road side, we let them play on it. Almost everyday, when we walked back to hotel, we will stop at this place and let them played a while. Did i said, my boys had more energy and they become more hyper in cold weather? Like the energizer bunny, never get tired!!
another exercise equipment.
hotel lobby
After spent about two hours outside, we back to the hotel, but there are still no room available for us. I insist or i ask them to try to get a room for me, i know my boys are tired, they need rest and so do us. The front desk staff are very helpful and they speak very good English too. The staff manage to get me a room, he told me this room is slightly smaller than the actual room i booked. He asked if i don't mind to temporary stay in this room for a night and they will change my room the next day. I agree with it and finally we can take a rest after more than 12 hours travel.
view from our room.
our room, actually it is not small at all
*sorry for the people in the picture, camera man didn't do a good job*
yukata in the drawer
mini bar
they even got iron and iron board, slipper in the room.
After taking shower, yes we all took a shower even it is winter!! We all took a long nap till late afternoon.
Stay tune for the next post what we had for dinner on the first night.