(Above) Seoul Somerset Palace Serviced Apartment
With our legs quite in need of a rest and with the check-in time of 3pm approaching, we headed back to Somerset Seoul Palace Serviced apartment where we would be staying for 7 days.Being in a foreign country, it does put you in some peace of mind when you book a serviced apartment that is owned by Singapore linked companies like Capital Land and Temasek Holdings and run according to Singapore quality standards and reliablity.
The good thing of the front counter staff at Somerset Seoul Palace is that all of them can speak good American accented English so you can ask them lots of questions which is good for free and easy vacations.
(Above and Below) Our Studio Apartment at Seoul Palace Serviced Apartment
Checking into the room, we were impressed with the full facilties of the apartment especially the LG 8KG washer cum dryer machine(Below), ironing board with Phillips iron which enabled us to have cleaned, dried, well ironed clothes to wear for our trip in Seoul.
The kitchen(above) featured a microwave, toaster, built in fridge with freezer(Below), humidifier, all of which made the apartment like a second home. they also provide full array of utensils, cutlery, pots and pans and even cloth to dry the dishes.
(Above) Washroom in our apartment
After an hour plus of unpacking and resting, we headed out to buy T-money cards(similar to our EZ-Link) from the nearby convenience stall(there are two 24hrs ones within walking distance of our apartment). You go to the counter staff and tell that you want to purchase T Money. It comes with a retail price of 2500W which is a deposit value and then you can top up to any amount you wish.
(Above) Me showing my T-Money card on the bus
The advantage is that the T-Money offers a 100W discount for each trip on the subway or bus. it can also be used to pay for taxi fare. Not being used to using T-Money, I actually lost one and had to buy another. So after that incident, I returned my T Money card to Gayle for safe keeping after each tap of the card at the turnstile.Another lesson learnt is not to top up too much value at one go so in case you lose it, you don't lose so much so i always top up between 3000W($4.50) to 5000W($6.50) A standard one way trip on the subway regardless of distance is 900W($1.12) using the T-Money. We then took the subway to Dongdaemun to spend the evening looking around and check out the items sold there plus of course look for dinner.
We found that the quality of the clothing and shoes there were not quite up to our expectations in terms of design and quality for the prices asked - hmm, mayb we were getting "atas" but we really didn't see the point of buying something inferior to what we can get in Singapore at the same price.
We then headed for the other shopping malls in the area like Team 204(above) etc.Along the way, we strolled and look around the street markets.
We had dinner at one of the eateries there and ordered rice noodles and dumplings(above and below) which were very similar to what we have at home.
The photos(above) show how delicious dinner was with us emptying the bowls.
We ended the night at Doota Mall where we were fortunate to have an opportunity to watch an open air live concert by a popular instrumental pop group - Vanilla Lucy(above) whose hit song - French Love is on the airwave. We then headed back to our apartment for a good night's rest.For more detailed program on this day, please refer to our earlier posts this year.
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