Korea 7 Days 6 Nights (Jeju + Seoul)

Day 1 (part 1)
WooHoo.... Arrived at Seoul. The flight that day arrived as per scheduled. We spend some time at the ladies room (washroom) to layer up especially for some of our other travelling partners who were super afraid of COLD weather. Yeap.... it is their first time travelling in WINTER...!!! for Angie and Myself, it was nothing as we have been to Harbin before in 2008 and during that time, the weather is 4x colder than now. (fyi, korea is -4C at the time of our arrival).

Once we stepped out of the ladies, we walked towards immigration clearance area. WOW.... there were so many peoples (especially for foreign passport). We waited for close to an hour to finally had our passport stamped. With that, we went to collect our luggage and proceeded outside to check out the tourism information counter. Both myself and Angie went looking for the Hanjin Express which is located in 1st or 3rd floor (near to counter A). The reason we are looking for Hanjin Express is because there were 2 bags which we do not plan to bring to JEJU (those two bags are really huge bags which we planned to pack all our shopping items when we shop in Seoul later). I am sure you have seen our itinerary, we are travelling to Jeju on the first day and will stay in Jeju 3 nights before flying back to Seoul. We informed the Hanjin Express guy that we want our 2 luggages to be transferred to MOON GUESTHOUSE (which is our accommodation in Seoul on our 4th & 5th night). We thought that the charges to courier our luggage there will cost a ton. Surprisingly, it cost only W9000 per bag (equivalent to RM25.65 where w2.85 = RM1.00 at the time when we exchange all our Korean Won).

After this was done. We traveled to GIMPO airport via AREX subway. It cost only W3,900 @ RM11.10. To go to the AREX subway, you just need to go to B1 from the lift near exit 5. I know that there are a few other lift that can reach that place but cannot remember already. All you need to do is ask the tourist information counter for the info. They speak English. The train takes about 20 - 30 minutes to reach GIMPO.

Once there, we went directly to EASTERJET counter to ask for our flight ticket to be exchange. At that time, it was around 9.30am. We exchanged our ticket from original flight to Jeju at 1.30pm to flight at 11.45am. The additional cost per pax which we need for forked up is W6,000 @ RM17.10. FYI, the flight ticket is inclusive of 15kg bag check-in.

(referring to my previous blog where i booked my flight ticket at W102,000. With additional W6,000, the total flight ticket to Jeju (return) is W108,000 @ RM307.80).

Since we have about an hour to spare, we went to the closest convenient store to have our breakfast (something simple and on-the-go).

after we filled our stomach, we waited at the gate for the flight attendance to inform us when we can board the flight. At 11.45am, we boarded the flight and depart for Jeju.

Korea 7 Days 6 Nights (Jeju + Seoul)

Finally, the day has arrived. We are taking our flight from LCCT, KL, Msia to Incheon, Seoul, Korea. Total number of travellers in our group - 5pax. Total Journey took 6hrs ++. Since Korea is an hour earlier than us (e.g. Korea time 7am is Msia time 6am), we reached korea at 6.20am korean time (5.20am Malaysian time). As mentioned in our earlier post, we traveled to Korea via Air Asia.

Korea 7 Days 6 Nights (Jeju + Seoul)

Since last year 23rd May 2011, we have already booked our flight to Korea Incheon for 7 days 6 nights from 5th Feb'12 - 11th Feb'12. Yeah.... most of you would have thought that we planned to go there skiing - one of the best skiing place in the world. Unfortunately, i have had bad experiences with skiing previously, hence, i avoided skiing like a mad woman ...

Yeap, our trip is just purely sight-seeing in WINTER time Korea. Yahooo........

Below were the itinerary that Angie and i worked out for our Korea 7 days 6 nights trip.
[The picture shown below were some of the pictures taken from internet intended for personal use only]

The above calculation is based on exchange rate of RM3:W1,000

Well.... as usual, this is just planned itinerary, the final trip may turned out completely different from the above but i guess i prefer to have some basis to estimate our budget & travelling itinerary.

Based on above calculation, we estimated to use about RM2,500 (transport [car rental, petrol, jeju internal flight & subway in Seoul], meals, accommodation, entrance fee etc)

Our flight from Kuala Lumpur to Incheon Airport is RM970 all in (2 x meals, 15kg bag & 30kg bag return, seating arrangement etc).

Total estimated budget for 7 days 6 nights Korea (Seoul + Jeju) = RM2500 + RM970 = RM3,470.

Finally, i have taken up the initiative to revivie my blog. yes i know.. it has been some times. The reason that prompted me to re-write my blog will be more on my travelling review & itinerary. My sister and i loves travelling. Most of the time, we will travel on our own instead of joining tour as we prefer the free & easy (no time constraint) travelling. In order to travel on our own, we need to do a lot of research & reading to come up with our itinerary, our budget allocation etc..... In this, my forte is marketing, so compilation of itinerary, planning and budget allocation is not an issue for me. As for my sister - Angie, her forte is reading reviews & blogs to do in-depth research on each and every places / accommodation that we planned to visit. We have always benefited from people's blogs & reviews. Hence, we feel that we should also contribute our knowledge and experience with others who are interested on the places that we have visited.

after so long

yea yea. I know I hv neglected my blog for so so so long.... I m sure all my readers have already gave up on me. he he. anyway, I m back. I will post all my past years travelling here I.e. Beijing-harbin, Korea, macau, Japan etc.... pls be patience... as it will takes me some time to post since I hv lost touch with flogging for so long..... be sure to check it out after 2 wks. tata

080531 - Port Dickson Trip

Early in the morning, we set off at about 9am. All went there in a few cars... Luckily i do not need to drive as those who drive that day were all bless with fantastic super expensive cars such as WISH, CAMRY, RAV4, MURANO & etc.... goodness, imagine me driving MyVi there. Luckily, this round, i do not need to drive at all. I sat nicely In RAV4 and enjoy my journey to PD. Wo hoo.... Above pictures were taken when we reached the banglo. We quickly decorate the front hall with balloons and a wishing board "SELAMAT JALAN SINGAPORE KIA".... Well... yeah, Ivan's farewell and he happens to be one singaporean. He is finally going back for good and preparing for marriage with Eurris. I am so happy for him!!!!

Above show pictures of us waiting for Ivan to open the front door. Each of us had in our hand all the cut-sized pieces of paper which we intend to throw on them when they arrived.

(all the photos are photos of our group pictures. Yeah... all URC-ian, X-URC-ian !!!!!)
URC, I MISS U SO DAMN MUCH !!!!

Chef Wan Launch at KL

Yeah... Completely cool... We get to join the launch of Chef Wan cookshow for Ayamas. Wow... We were expected to wear our Ayamas uniform, therefore i went there with it but slightly modified... hahaha.. well .. what to do... i am still unable to fit myself into the shirt so i have to wear another read blouse inside... It was quite interesting. We get to see Chef Wan life cooking show, some journalists, ayamas top management and best of all...FOC food... wahahaha... here are those photos taken during the launch...


pic of me & my colleagues



Two of my best Pals in Ayamas -Eyling (above left) Paul (below)