Musings

We stayed at the Golden Tulip Incheon Airport Hotel and Suites for a single evening as we were transiting through the city for our early morning flight home on Day 18. Our brief notes on it! As our Day 18

Continued from the previous post, and covering grub from Day 10 onwards! That’s a wrap for our culinary experiences this trip in Korea!

Our notes recording grub on this 18 day trip to South Korea! This is a super long post with a lot of pictures, so it’s split into two parts. Part 1 covers grub from Days 01 to 09! Continued in

Incheon is actually South Korea’s third largest city by population, and after Seoul and Busan. It’s not really a well-known place for international tourism though. And for most travellers, the only encounter we would have with this city is that

In terms of maximizing the amount of time we can spend in a country when on vacation, we try to take red eye flights departing Singapore overnight so that we can arrive at the start of a day, and depart

Our 9D8N stay in Seoul has been the longest continuous stretch we’ve ever stayed in a property – whether Airbnb or rental – while on family vacation. During our itinerary planning months ago, we read discussions debating on the best

About 10 minutes walk from Yeouido Hangang Park are two malls that are adjacent to each other and connected by an underground pass: we checked out The Hyundai Seoul first, a large and relatively new shopping mall that is top

Day 16 and our final full day in Seoul before we make our way to Incheon tomorrow morning. Our initial itinerary today was for us to visit Hangang River and the winter festivities in the area, including letting the kids

We finished our ice skating activity at the Seoul Plaza past 11AM, and it was about time to figure out lunch and also for the kids to find a place to sit down and rest their legs after all the

We received alerts on our mobile phones yesterday evening that Seoul was expecting heavy snowfall that was going to start late night. That was very welcomed news for us: because we’ve been in Seoul for a week now and only

We didn’t know quite what to expect at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, but we’d certainly heard that the place is a must-stop spot when in Seoul.  We headed to the multi-purpose cultural complex in the early afternoon after our visit

We had a free day today after we cancelled our day trip to visit the Wondae-ri Birch Forest as the itinerary activity was changed to Mt. Sorak in lieu of adverse weather. We kept our free day’s activities light and