Hong Kong to South Korea!
We arrived in Incheon Airport at 7:45am, our airline was called Air India. I was pretty impressed with the service with this airline. Food service was very quick and the journey took about five hours from Hong Kong.
Once we landed, everything was so efficient. Getting off the plane was quick, we retrieved our luggage five minutes later and the train to the main airport terminal arrived very quickly. I hear the culture there is to do everything quickly, (baly baly) as they would say. I guess maybe that is why everything was quick. I wish it was like that in London...
The Incheon Airport is meant to be the one of the biggest and best areas to shop compared to other airports. Unfortunately , I did not get a chance to have a stroll round the shops. I could see the makeup and comestics shops from the exits. My eyes lit up , hahaa!
In the terminal, there are many different exits out of the airport. We went out of exit 12A to catch the 6015 bus to Myeongdong, one of the last stops on the bus line. The journey there took around an hour....
Oh yes, I just remembered, there is a system here where they give you two stickers, one to put on the luggage and one for you to keep. I think the system is actually very good and I've never come across it before.
On our way there, we had a peep in the magazine in the front seat pocket. Most of the advertisement was about plastic surgery and I also show the famous Stylenanda models too!
It wasn't long until we arrived at our hotel...
Our hotel was actually very near the Myeongdong bus station, I thought it would take a long time to find our hotel, which by the way it was called Pacific Hotel.
Here are some pictures of the hotel room:
One story to add...
While we were on the airbus and got off the last stop, my older sister left her phone behind and before she could turn back, the bus had already wheeled off.
The bus service workers were very helpful but found it very difficult to speak English and to communicate with us. So one of the workers used a bit of paper to explain what he thought was happening. He drew the bus layout and we thought he was drawing a phone with the buttons. It was so funny but in the end we figured it out and told him where we were sitting. He then asked us what colour it was and so we just pointed at my top which was blue, that was easy enough to explain!
They managed to find the phone on that bus and told us to wait outside Myeongdong station at 6:20pm to collect the phone.
Now that incident was sorted, we headed off back to the hotel to have a nap and did not realised the time when we woke up, it was 6:10pm and we were all rushing to get ready to head out. My sister was so worried she would miss the collection time and so she headed out before us. We were all scared she may be lost or something, noone speaks English around South Korea which makes it even more difficult. The rest of us waited in the main lobby for her.
It was not long until she came back so that was all good.
After that dreadful incident, we went out to eat in the streets of Myeongdong, it was such a clean and tidy place. There were cute little restaurants with patches of grass for decoration with cute sitting areas just like in Korean dramas.
The restaurant we went to was called Wangbijib to try out Korean BBQ for the first time!!!
There were so many selections of meats to choose from, we were drolling at the sight of it and we could smell the meat being cooked around us..
We ordered a Korean BBQ set which came with two choices of meat, we chose the ribs and the standard cut of beef. First of all, we were given side dishes such as kimchi, radish and garlic along with other cold side dishes that came with the package...
Then suddenly the waiter came over to us with two massive slabs of meat and started cooking it for us, he separated it out into little pieces too.
The meat was cooked to perfection, my favourite were the ribs by far, it was so sweet and tender, the marinate on those ribs were to die for!!
It was the best piece of meat I have ever tasted. It was not too fatty to the point where it leaves an oily feeling in your mouth. There was just enough fat for it to melt in the mouth when eaten. The other beef cut was also very high quality and I was very impressed.
That was such a filling dinner but we weren't finished yet.....
Later on, we went to the Myeongdong shopping district to have a long around but not to buy anything because we heard more samples are given in Hongdae and Ehwa University cosmetic shops.
We decided to stop off to have dessert at Korean dessert cafe to have pat bing su. Of course, we had to try the red bean bing su, which is the most popular flavour. We also chose the best seller which was sweet potato and cheese flavoured pat bing su. Although it sounded like it wouldn't taste good, admittedly the sweet potato flavour was the best one out of the two desserts.
We spotted Skinfood on the way out and thought we might buy a few masks to use that night.
This box was around £4.50, which is not too expensive for five masks and I wanted to try out some snails masks to find out what the hype was.
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We also passed a small supermarket and bought a few snacks and drinks.
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