our flight to jeju is at 1pm so we took our time to lazily check-out of lotte city hotel and had brunch @ lotte mall before making our way to gimpo domestic airport which is only just a 10-15mins walk from the hotel.
@ gimpo domestic airport
domestic flights are interesting. people carry lighter baggages, check-in process is much faster, boarding passes are just simple paper strips and no custom chops!
we took eastarjet to jeju. originally, i wanted to take jejuair simply of the fact that lee Minho is the face for it.. ha!
but after comparing prices, eastarjet offers super great discounts if you book way in advance which is the case for us (3months in advance!). the usual pricing of $120-$150 per pax to jeju was slashed to a mere $60+ for us! yes, its a crazy $240+ for our family of 4 - round trip no less! *sweet*
the flight was pretty smooth and under an hour though the landing was a little hard for my preference. not sure if it's due to jeju airport having a shorter runway landing strip.
in any case, we reached at 2+pm and first thing we did was to make our way to collect our rental car!
we made booking with KT Kumho for a Kia K5 rental for the 3 days we will be in jeju. the process was straightforward enough - we boarded a shuttle bus at the airport which brought us to the rental place (a mere 10mins drive from the airport). over there, information was verified, payment made and after some simple instructions on the car and GPS features, we were ready to go!
hubbi took the wheels for the first day since its a left-hand drive and we drove to our hotel - jeju December hotel - to check-in (a short 20mins drive from the car rental place in jeju city).
it was around 3pm when we reached so the room was ready to check-in - good!
after putting our stuff and freshening up abit, we were ready to hit the road for our first and only stop for the day: sangumburi crater!
@ sangumburi.
such stone statues are very common at jeju and are normally placed at entrance of places to symbolize protection.
the boys called them "dum-dum" after the stone statue which appeared in the movie "night at the musem".... ha
jeju, despite boosting warmer temperatures than seoul felt much cooler. perhaps its the wind, im not sure. the boys were complaining of the cold when we reached here and i regretted not prepping them enough with thermal wear and bringing their gloves/beanies along. :(
luckily, they didn't fall sick after this.
gorgeous place - I totally heart the place and we get the see sunset here.
sangumburi crater is 40mins drive from jeju city where we were based and it's totally worth the drive.
from the entrance, you have to hike up to the crater and the view is lovely.
the crater is now totally engulfed with all kind of flora and fauna - beautiful!
by the time we climbed back into our car, we were all shivering. it was good to turn on the heater full blast to thaw us for the trip back to jeju city! :)
dinner was at heukdonga restaurant which supposedly serves yummy black pig. and it is really good living up to our expectations, especially the marinated pork ribs. YUM!
yumyum!
@ our hotel
i booked jeju December hotel after seeing good reviews online. while it's nowhere as luxurious as the other hotels we stayed in korea for this trip, it is very value for money given it's location and room size. i think it costs us around $130+ per night only and we have 2 queen size beds!
hubbi and I were worried that it might get too cold for us at night after we saw that there is no heater in the room but we realized that the floor is heated and the room is well-proofed against the cold outside so we stayed warm and cosy the 3 nights we were sleeping here. :D
more on jeju the next 2 posts! I think jeju totally deserves the 3 days that I've planned for it - so much stuff to do and it's really huge, commuting is time consuming so you need to allocate time for that too.
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