Seoul Plaza Hotel

... from home, what Keegan had brought from Irkutsk, then dressed warmly and headed out into the cold. We wandered down towards Seoul Plaza, where we were rather startled to find an Antarctic exploration display -- a quanset hut, an iceberg (clearly not made ...

... and will be a gargantuan thing when it’s finished!  There’s a big grassy area in front of it and opposite the Seoul Plaza, which I would later find out are used to good effect to hold shows and exhibitions!  I continued on, finding a ...

... and eat dinner. I am still not hungry so Sean and I depart for our night tour, estimated time 3 hours.  We travel to Seoul Plaza and the Choeng-gye stream which looks a lot cooler at night.  We just journey around taking in the lights and ...

... (till then I had only touched Germany and Austria) a run for it's money. Everything looked so organized and hi-tech ! The Seoul Plaza hotel (http://www.seoulplaza.co.kr/eng/) is one of the finest in Seoul. I was fortunate to stay at the club floor, ...

... basically now. We learned that he was on his way to visit one of his daughters and her husband and his grandson at their hotel in Seoul. He was very happy to chat to us and tell us about his kids and grandkids (all living in Canada coincidentally). Seoul ...

... of town, near City Hall, is a blur of Xmas lights and decorations. There is the obligatory bloody enormous tree outside the Plaza Hotel, along with a wicked outdoor ice-skating rink. If only I could ice skate. Pretty nice overall, not a ...

... headed back out to Sejongno, and found the Admiral Yi-Sun-shin statue.  This is a main road and it led down to Seoul Plaza.  There was an exhibition on the plaza of decorated lions and snow-themed articles.  By this time it was also ...

... , it was closed. It was 9am and they don't open until 10:30 so I had some time to kill. I wandered over to the Seoul Plaza in front of the City Hall (see pictures in the gallery), got someone to take my picture outside of the Deoksungung Palace entrance ...

... experience. It's easy to become lost in the self contained underground city with its own aquarium, movie theater, conference center, hotel, restaurants and of course, Kimchi Field Museum. In the evening my friend took me to Paragon Spa in the Mok-dong ...

... ; dye. Left luggage in Kimpo Airport with  attendants. Talk to tourist information in airport and they book us an hotel in downtown  Seoul. Took the subway to the hotel. The hotel is Gwangha Hotel.About $40 daily. Walk to the central plaza and ...

... it in the first place so it wouldn't have surprised us to have it all go pear-shaped at the end. But the cabby understood "GS Plaza Hotel," it cost all of about $7 and the two ladies at reception knew all about us. The only mystery was where to find room ...

... almost hear the air let out of my balloon.  After collecting our bags we were shuttled onto a bus and hauled to the Gloria Plaza Hotel. When we got to the hotel and checked in Jeremiah found his room to be a wreck. Somehow it had missed the ...

... the last row of seats -row 60! The flight took an hour and the temperature at Jeju was around 12C.    Ramada Plaza Hotel is about 5 minutes drive from Jeju International Airport and it was much cheaper to book online through Asiahotels.com or ...

... us all rooms at various places. at that point our group split even smaller as we all headed off to our hotels. Our "CTS Plaza" Hotel group, comprised of me and the belgian girl with the dutchman and 2 english guys.going down to the taxi queue which was ...

... about one of the hostels in my book and the staff informed us that that area was unsafe and recommended Prince Plaza hotel.  Sounded fancy and too expensive for us, but their concern for our safety worried us a bit and got a taxi ...

... arrival in Oz.  Walked and breakfasted for the last time around Cairns with a rather hot walk along the seafront back to the hotel for checking in around lunchtime.  First thing - down to the pool to cool off then a nice lazy afternoon before ...

... I left Wan with the girls, who were continuing the night into the Red Light District (Kabukicho), which was relatively close to my hotel. That being said, sleep seemed like a better option. The girls gestured for a picture with me, so I obliged. I crawled ...

... the areas to avoid. Some bars, I was told, do not allow foreign people to enter, and others forbid even non-regulars! My hotel, the Green Plaza Shinjuku Capsule Hotel, was Japan’s largest capsule hotel. If you do not know what a capsule hotel is, I ...