V Day at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel

Over the romantic weekend, KB pampered us with the Valentine's Day package at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. Although he booked an Executive Suite, we were checked in to a La Residenza Studio Suite on the 5th floor.






Upon entering the studio, to the right, is a mini kitchen hidden behind the closet. It's fully equipped with all the common appliances: washer, dryer, refrigerator, wine chiller, microwave, coffee machine, toaster, kettle. The whole set of cutleries, cooking utensils, pots and pans are provided too. By the way, all the non-alcoholic beverages in the fridge are complimentary.



The bedroom is quite cramped as compared to the other parts of the suite.



There are two entrance to the bathroom. Also, there's a sliding door separating the toilet and the bathroom.



The Executive Club entitles us access to the exclusive 29th floor, where the complimentary tea break is available at 3 to 5pm. It was a simple spread of tuna sandwiches, cookies, coffee and some selection of green and black tea. At the window seats, we could enjoy the city view while sipping our coffee. Breakfast is also served here in the morning, but we chose to eat at the usual breakfast buffet at Café Brio's, which has a much larger variety of food.



As part of the Valentine's Day room package, a 3-course fine dining dinner at Pontini was included. After dinner, we took a short refreshing stroll along Singapore River, before returning back to our room.



KB had to ask the hotel staff about the wine, which was stated in his booking. After some confusion among the staffs, they brought the complimentary wine, together with dessert. The pair would have been perfect if we had dessert wine instead.

The next day after breakfast, we used the GV Gold Class vouchers (included in the room package) and caught a movie. We didn't have to rush because the room was available for late check out at 4pm. In fact, we still had time to relax in the room after returning from the cinema.

Lotte Hotel World

Our last two night in Korea was spent in Seoul and we stayed in Lotte Hotel World.

Well-stocked pantry

When was the last time you saw matchsticks in a hotel room? For me, I think it was before digital camera were invented.


Interestingly, there's also this outdated mobile phone for rent.



In this trip, this is the only hotel that has a bathtub.

Toiletries

Night view of the city from our room.

Ocean Palace Hotel

In our 7D6N South Korea tour, we spent two nights at Jeju Island in Ocean Palace Hotel. This is my favourite hotel for this whole trip.

This is one of the few hotels in Korea that provided toiletries.

There's a separate cubicle for the shower area and the toilet bowl.

The toilet is equipped with a very sophisticated flushing system, which has a butt washing function.

Yongpyong Ski Resort

On day 2 of our South Korea tour, we arrive at the Yongpyong Ski Resort and we checked into a room at Greenpia Condominium for the night.

Lobby at Greenpia Condominium

There's only one bedroom and it is not furnished with any bed, but with mattress that we can spread out on the floor.

View of the mountains from our room.

Before heading to this ski resort, we stopped by a house for lunch and to rent our ski wears. We changed into them in our hotel room and walk over to the Dragon Plaza to collect the ski gears.

KB isn't keen to ski, while I've already skied before some years back. However, our tour guide suggested that we still change into the attire to take some photos, since the rentals have already been paid for. So, that's what we did.




After returning our ski gears, we wandered around and found ourselves a dinner place.




The next morning, we opt to take the cable car up to Dragon Peak.



It's very foggy all the way up to the mountain top.




As the cable car travels to a higher altitude, there's not much to see, except snow and trees.



Here we are at the Dragon Peak.

It's foggy, windy and the temperature is negative 7 degrees Celsius... too uncomfortable for KB to stay outdoors for too long.



On the upper level, there's the restaurant that a scene in Winter Sonata television drama series was filmed in.





It seems like the restaurant isn't opened in the morning and the staff didn't stop us from hanging around to take photos.