My family and I stayed at the Park Hyatt Seoul hotel (conveniently located directly outside the Samseong subway stop) during our visit to South Korea.

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• Secret Trip Preview
• Destination #1 – Clues
  • Lufthansa A380 First Class
  • Activities in Vienna, Austria
  • Food in Vienna, Austria
  • Park Hyatt Vienna
• Destination #2 – Clues
  • Transit – Vienna, Austria to Florence, Italy
  • Activities in Florence, Italy
  • Day Trip to Pisa
  • Hotel de la Villa (Florence)
• Destination #3 – Clues
  • Transit – Florence, Italy to Milan, Italy
  • Activities in Milan, Italy
  • Restaurant VUN
  • Park Hyatt Milan
• Destination #4 – Clues
  • Transit – Milan, Italy to Zermatt, Switzerland
  • Activities in Zermatt, Switzerland
  • Gornergrat
  • Hotel Matterhorn Focus
• Destination #5 – Clues
  • Glacier Express
  • Activities in Zurich, Switzerland
  • Park Hyatt Zurich
• Destination #6 – Clues
  • Singapore Airlines A380 Suites Class
  • Conrad Maldives Complimentary Food
  • Conrad Maldives Dining
  • Conrad Maldives Water Villa
• Destination #7 – Clues
  • Transit – Maldives to Singapore
  • Activities in Singapore
  • Dining in Singapore
  • Grand Hyatt Singapore
• Destination #8 / 9 – Clues
  • Thai Airways Lounge and First Class
  • Activities in Hong Kong
  • Dining in Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Disneyland
  • Ocean Park Hong Kong
  • Day Trip to Macau
  • Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui
  • Grand Hyatt Hong Kong
• Destination #10 – Clues
  • Cathay Pacific Business Class
  • Activities in Seoul, South Korea
  • Dining in Seoul, South Korea
  • Park Hyatt Seoul (this post)
• Asiana A380 First Class

Chris was able to use the Hyatt Diamond Guest of Honor benefit to make additional room reservations that provided Diamond benefits, which included daily breakfast. Chris upgraded our room to a Park Suite King room, and the Guest of Honor rooms were upgraded to Park Deluxe King rooms. All three rooms were located next to each other (on the 18th floor), and we needed to take the elevator from the ground floor up to the hotel lobby (on the 24th floor) and switch to a different elevator down to our room.

The complimentary daily breakfast was provided in the Cornerstone restaurant on the second floor. The restaurant offered The Park Buffet, which included a selection of milk, juices, yogurt, fruits, cheeses, deli meats, pastries, and Korean hot and cold dishes. We were also able to order anything off the menu of Korean specialties, organic eggs, and batters entrees. We even ordered ice cream from the counter a couple times.

Our room provided over 180-degree views of the busy streets and buildings surrounding COEX. We noticed that this city never slept. The streets were still crowded with cars at 2:00 AM, but were definitely emptier earlier in the morning.

After the evening turndown service on our last night in Seoul, each of the rooms received a farewell gift with a message card from the hotel. We thought it was a nice touch to end the final hotel stay of our Secret Trip.

For more details of our adventures outside the hotel, visit Seoul Food and Seoul Activities.