Grand Hyatt Seoul - Review

Grand Hyatt Seoul is located at Mount Namsam in Yongsan district.The views of surrounding are nice and beautiful. You can see the Namsan N Tower from the hotel. The hotel located near Itaewon. We drove a car when we check in. The GPS takes us to the back of the hotel and I had to asked people for direction. The lobby for this hotel located at the 1st Floor.  When we got at the lobby, the receptionist welcomed us. The service in this hotel is not as great as the one in Park Hyatt Seoul Hotel. The receptionist let me know that my room was upgraded to the suite with a swimming pool and Hangang river as the view. No one take us to the room like other Hyatt hotel in South Korea. The lobby itself is very crowded all day long.

Our room located in the corner of the 11th Floor. There is a welcoming gift from this hotel, a box of chocolate, fruit plate, and a bottle of wine. The room was big with a big sofa. The TV desk between the bed and the sofa can be rotated so that you can watch the TV in either at the bed or sofa. The closet was a walking closet with a dresser. The bathroom was nice but you can see it from the bed and you cannot close it like the one in Courtyard Seoul Times Square. The toilet bowl was equipped with a bidet. There is also a table bar next to the sofa.

There are two club lounges in the hotel, one is on the 15th Floor and the other is on the 17th Floor. Both served the same food and drinks. Both consists of a few separate rooms with tables and chairs with a wall of windows overlooking Hangang river.

I did not have time to spend on the fitness center nor the swimming pool. The swimming pool was very beautiful. I heard lots of complain regarding the fitness center and swimming pool since they allowed outsider to use the facilities. Therefore, I cannot give my opinion regarding the facilities. The lounge was great and not many people as others describe. The food was great and nothing to complain. Two thing that I did not like was the light at the room. All the lights were connected in one button and therefore, if I turned the lights in the bed, the lights where the sofa and the table bar located were also turned off. The air conditioner was not working as it should. The room get so hot. The air conditioner was very loud and noisy. It sounded like someone knock the door all day long. Other than that, everything is great. I would rate this hotel at 4.2/5.

N Seoul Tower - Seoul

Two Weeks Vacation in South Korea - Part XV

Part XIV: Two Weeks Vacation in South Korea - Part XIV
Part XV: Two Weeks Vacation in South Korea - Part XV

Itinerary to South Korea 

Day 15: Seoul

From Petite France, we drove back to Seoul, I dropped my mom and sister at Dongdaemun while my dad and I returned the rental car to Gimpo Airport. We stayed at Grand Hyatt for two nights. As a diamond member, I was upgraded to a suite. I would rate this hotel 4.5/5. The hotel was too crowded and the room that we got was so noisy at night from the air conditioner. The noise was very loud that my mom could not sleep at all. Also, there were lots of lights in the room but all connected to only one button so that I cannot just turn some of the lights that I want to turn on or off. The air conditioner was not working and the room got very hot at night. Other than that, the hotel room was nice and big.

N Seoul Tower

The next morning, we ate the breakfast at the executive lounge at Grand Hyatt Hotel and headed out to N Seoul Tower with a cab. From the parking lot where the cab drop us, we walked to the building to take a cable car to where the N Seoul Tower located.

Fee: 8,500 won/adult (Round trip) and 6,000 won/adult (One way ticket)

Cable car to N Tower

Wefie inside the cable car

N Seoul Tower is a communication an observation tower located at Namsan Mountain with a total of 236m tall that marks the highest point in Seoul. In this location, there were lots of movies, dramas, and variety shows that was filming in here such as 1 night 2 days and what's with my family? During night time, there are different lighting and have its own meaning for each color.

Sky Blue: means that the air quality is clean and it is excellent to do outdoors activities

Green: means that the love of the earth

Red: shine during World Blood Donation Day and appreciation of blood donors 

Earth Hour: the light is off for an hour to decrease carbon emission

 

The last three days, I spent shopping and did not take any pictures. On last day, when flying back to United States, I lost my wallet with all my credit cards, ID card, and US dollar. I looked for it at the lost and found and cannot find it. I let them know if they found it to call me at my US number. I was thinking that I would no longer find it. This is why I love South Korea, a week later, someone found my wallet and turned it to the lost and found. One of the staff called me to ask me to pick it up. When I received it, I lost nothing from my wallet. I am so happy and thanks god to found it back for me. 

Another great thing that happened during my last day at South Korea was that I met EXO at Asiana Lounge. They sat in front of where I sat. I scared to take a picture of them because it seems like no one in the lounge knew them and lots of security guards around them.