Our trip to Seoul revolved primarily around food, but we did spend some time exploring a couple palaces and Lotte World.

View other posts in this series:

• 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 (this post)
  • Dining in Seoul, South Korea
  • Park Hyatt Seoul
• Asiana A380 First Class

We went to Gyeongbukgung Palace and walked through the 11:00 AM English tour while my parents participated in the same tour in Chinese. Lunch took longer than expected and we missed our 1:30 PM reservation for the Secret Garden Tour at Changdeokgung Palace. Luckily, the ticket office allowed us to use the reservation for the 2:30 PM tour instead.

The original plan was to visit the indoor amusement park at Lotte World Adventure. We changed our minds as the KRW 48,000 per person admission fee did not seem to be worth the short visit between lunch and dinner. We were also a bit amusement-parked out after our recent days in Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park Hong Kong. We did some shopping at the Lotte World Department Store and Hi-Mart instead.