Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse

Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse

Address : Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse, Seoul, South Korea

Rating : 7.7

Very Recommended!

Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse provides cozy rooms in downtown Seoul, a 10 minute walk from Changdeokgung Palace, Gyeongbokgung Palace and shopping at Dongdaemun. It features a rooftop terrace and free Wi-Fi access. Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse is a 3 minute walk from Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1) and the Airport Bus Stop (Bus 6002).

It is also a 5 minute walk from Cheonggyecheon Stream, Jongmyo Royal Shrine and KwangJang Market. Simply furnished, all rooms are equipped with air conditioning. Bathrooms are either private or shared, and come with 24-hour hot-water showers. 

Personal lockers and ironing facilities are also available. Guests can watch TV and movies in the common living room, arrange day trips at the tour desk, or check email at the computer corner.

What's cool for the party monsters??? There is NO CURFEW at this guesthouse. Korean and international restaurants, as well as pubs and karaoke clubs, are within a 10 minute walk from the guesthouse.

Facilities of Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse

General Heating, Baggage Storage, All Spaces Non-Smoking (Public and Private), Air Conditioning, Services Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Ironing Service, Fax/Photocopying InternetFree! Wi-Fi is available in all areas and is free of charge.

ParkingFree! Free private parking is available on site (reservation is needed).

We stayed in a 4-bed private room, and yaya!! All the private room comes with a private bathroom!! If you're going to book for dorm room, you'll have to used the public bathroom which is available in 3rd & 4th floor.

Policies In Kimchee Dongdaemun Guesthouse

Check in 15:00 - 23:30 hours

Check out until 12:00 hours

Cancellation/Prepayment Cancellation and prepayment policies vary according to room type. Please enter the dates of your stay and check what conditions apply to your preferred room. But please bared in mind that No credit cards accepted, so please prepare cash upon arrival ya! :D

Hualien 2D1N

I have always wanted to visit Hualien since my first trip to Taiwan in 2011, but due to the inconvenient of ground transportation I’ve always read about, I eventually gave up visiting this city in my first trip. So then I came back to Malaysia and when I’m planning for my second visit to Taiwan, I did some research on how to get to Hualien from Taipei and also about the ground tour available.

The most convenient transport from Taipei to Hualien is by train, it takes approx. 2-3 hours and it’s about TWD$440 (RM45) for one way. You can always ask for help in Taipei Main Station, best is to buy the train ticket one day in advance.

TIP: Go for the express train, ask the ticket counter for express train to Hualien.

So I bought an early train ticket which departs from Taipei Main Station at 6.10am and arrive in Hualien at 8.16am. I booked a 2 nights stay at No.6 Homestay. Double room for 1 night will be TWD$1,800 (weekdays) and TWD$2,200 (weekends or public holiday). Email them for reservation, you don’t have to pay an upfront payment but do remember to confirm your reservation again 7 days before your stay. They’ll have pick-up service from Hualien train station, so let them know your train arrival time.

Once arrived, we checked in to the guesthouse and the owner of the guesthouse will ask if you like to make any ground tour, there’ll be a full day trip or half day trip around Hualien and also full day tour to Taroko that they can arrange for you. We took the half day tour around Hualien with TWD$2,000 (RM200) for one car (can fit 5 people) and also one day tour to Taroko for TWD$1,000 (RM100) per person.

The half day tour:

花蓮出發→吉安慶修院→鯉魚潭→理想大地→立川漁場→返回花蓮車站、機場或飯店、民宿.

Hualien city –> Jian Shrine –> Liyu Lake –> Promised Land Resort & Lagoon –> Lichuan Aquafarm –> Hualien city

吉安慶修院/Jian Shrine

鯉魚潭/Liyu Lake

理想大地/Promised Land Resort & Lagoon

立川漁場/Lichuan Aquafarm

Will update on the full day tour to Taroko on my next blog post! Do comment if you have any questions regarding the ground tour in Hualien. :)

If you want to do a One Day Trip from Taipei to Taroko only, you’ll find a useful transportation information here.

Universal Studio Singapore

Welcome to the Lion City, Singapore, this wasn’t my first time in Singapore, but this is my first time in Universal Studio Singapore (USS)!

I’ve always wanted to visit USS since the opening, but what got me delayed is that, frankly, I don’t really enjoy my time in Singapore! xD Spending in Singapore has been a headache for me, even a short trip like 3D2N is gonna cost me about RM1,000, with that amount of money, I can enjoy shopping + food + massage in Thailand already, but in Singapore, with that amount of money, what I can get is cheap & affordable food also transportation, that’s ALL! Not even enough to cover for accommodation, but I’m lucky enough to have relatives and friends staying in Singapore, therefore I always managed to find a free night! =D

So, I managed to get a cheap roundtrip air ticket from PEN – SIN – PEN at the price of RM200, this is the cheapest, don’t complain because looking at the price you’re paying for, it’s ONLY RM2o for flight seats and the rest is the taxes, service etc. paying to Singapore Airport! So if you saw free seat from Air Asia, you usually will get the air ticket around RM180-200, just grab it because you won’t find any cheaper one unless you wanna take bus which cost you around RM120 for roundtrip and with LONG journey!

Good news for Malaysian, you can always find cheap USS ticket on Groupon or Mydeal or Livingsocial, and also you can search for discount promotion from Mastercard or Maybank. With the discounted price, you can get the ticket at the price around RM170 (Usual price SGD74 = RM195).

How to get to USS from Bugis:

From Bugis MRT Station, take the train to Outram Park MRT Station, alight and transfer train to Harbour Front MRT Station.

From Harbour Front you can choose to take bus at the bus interchange or monorail at vivo city level 3 into USS.

Speaking of theme parks, the QUEUE is always a headache, so avoid weekends or public holidays if you can! Anyway, USS wasn’t a very big theme park, so if you really can’t make it on normal day, I guess you’re still able to cover the whole theme park, but if there’re no crowd, you get to make a ‘second round’ for all the rides!!

TIP: Don’t missed the amazing Transformer ride, it’s a MUST!! If you don’t mind taking the ride alone, you can go for the SINGLE RIDER lane, skip the long queue and save your time for other ride! Anyhow, you gonna enjoy the ride even if you’re alone because you’re on 3D glasses!

I went on Monday which is a normal day, and the crowd was little when i reached at 10.30 am in the morning, but I managed to finished the theme park within 5 hours, taken 2 rides for Transformer, and watched a few shows as well!! So, you know what to do, skip the weekend or public holidays, I MEAN IT! :D