Korea Travelogue: Day 9 - Last Day in Seoul and back to Singapore
Day 9 itinerary
Kimbab Heaven (Brunch)
Zoo Coffee (Tea break)
Heading back to Singapore
Sigh. Welcome to the final day of the trip in Korea.
So depressing because time flies when you're having fun.
I didn't even think about anything back home while I was there and it was really very fun!
Guess that's the purpose of a vacation right? To relax your mind and all...
Alright so we were all packed up and ready to go by.. 10-ish in the morning?
Check out time is 11am at Namsan Guesthouse 3 and the staff even came by at around 10.30am to remind us.
My stuff.. not including the 26kg I shipped back the previous day *gulps*
Sad to say, I overbought once again and had to EMS everything back.
The good thing about living in Myeongdong was that there's a post office there (opposite Shinsaegae) and I could easily EMS everything back to Singapore.
Yup, just like that.
Paid approximately $100SGD to ship everything back, yes $100 for 26kg, good deal right?
Better than paying the airline excess baggage charges lol.
And my items arrived on Tuesday in Singapore!
That's how fast it is la homg.
Back to the travelogue.
We wanted to eat Korean food before going back to Singapore and our choice was... Kimbab Heaven LOL!
Super no creativity once again even though I was secretly hoping we could go back to Yoogane to eat again.
But we went to a bigger outlet within Myeongdong (near Clio) and this outlet had more variety of food!
Egg kimbab! NICE ^^
Afterwards Lirong wanted to buy her ice cream so she bought 1 and we all shared.
End up she couldn't finish (LOL!) and Juyin and Qiu had to help her finish it.
Qiu and Kee wanted to do some last minute shopping in Myeongdong so the rest of us went to Zoo Coffee to chillax.
Actually it's just an excuse to save some money because by then I was very broke.
The richest was... Lirong! LOL despite her buying so many clothes, I wound up being the only one who had to change money (twice!)
Directions
Remember Lotte Department Store? It's situated directly opposite Lotte! Along the stretch of shops by the main road is Zoo Coffee!
The interior is really cute! There are stuffed animals placed all around and even on the tables so it's kinda like a zoo concept? HAHAHA.
Cute eh?
We had a ball taking pictures with the stuffed animals, esp the pandas! :D
Machiam drama ah lol
Ordered a thick toast to share (Juyin & me who else lol) and drinks as well.
COFFEEEEEE!
Toast was meh in my opinion nothing very fantastic
We went back to the guesthouse to prepare to head to the airport because our flight was in the evening and we had to go claim back our VAT money.
Booked a van with the guesthouse for 65,000 KRW because we had too many things to carry already and it wasn't feasible to take the airport limousine bus back.
I may roll down the hill with my luggage instead while trying to get to Sejong Hotel lol.
No joke, seriously!
Last selca in the lift
Emo people lol
Thankfully we arrived earlier because claiming back the VAT requires quite some time.
What I mean is that we had to check in at the airline first, get our boarding passes issued and head to the VAT counter to get the chop from the officer (they will ask you to open your luggage and show them the items), drop the luggage at the counter next to the VAT counter, head inside to clear immigration and find the VAT counters inside only. Then you had to queue up to claim back your money!
Remember to fill in your particulars before you head to the airport to save some time :D
VAT counters inside the departure area and yes, there are 3 different kinds :/
By the time we claimed back the money it was almost time to head to our boarding gate.
We passed by this small area where you could take pictures for free with the costumes available!
Sadly they refused to let us change into it because our boarding time was near so we made do with a picture there only.
I felt so tall sorry >.<
Seating partner to HK
Airline food is crap seriously :/
The flight to HK was horrible!
Poor Lirong had motion sickness after that and even I was not feeling that well because the plane kept jerking everywhere.
People were screaming as if we were on a roller coaster due to the sudden drops in altitude.
Reached HK and this time our stopover was shorter but we went to find some hot drinks to fill our tummies while waiting for our next flight to Singapore.
What they served on midnight flights which looks pretty decent.
Managed to sleep on the next flight back to Singapore because we were extremely sleep deprived.
I was dozing off and woke up automatically when the air steward came with our food (see la, glutton!).
Even had the time to take Lirong's food cos she was sleeping very soundly hahahah.
Singapore!! :D
Touched down really early at approximately 5am local time.
Picked up our luggage and went home to sleep.
Very upset with the way Cathay Pacific handled our luggages.
4 out of 5 of us had our luggage damaged by the possibility of ground staff trying to steal from our luggage.
Lirong's luggage was almost sliced into half at the joint there while Juyin and Qiu's zippers and locks were broken.
Mine was... quite bad too.
They drilled a hole in my Rimowa luggage O.O
HOLE. I don't know how they did it seriously.
Filed a claim already but customer service has been slack and I've had to chase them constantly.
Mad annoyed by customer service standards in Singapore recently.
I think I've lost faith in customer service already la.
All companies should just close their customer service down because your customers are just getting bullied constantly by them.
Sigh.
Ok that marks the end of the entire Korea trip!
Thanks for reading thus far.
Do check out the other entries if you haven't and till my next wanderlust trip, 안녕~