Welcome to Korea!

Just want to comment on my first moment in Seoul..
I knew Koreans do NOT speak English..so I gather the most guides & maps available from the airport and asked directions to take the Limousine Bus to get to the city. Korea got budget!!! Got so many different versions of maps & a full book of the country for free!! Just saying that the day before  I was so in Dilemna at the bookstore of HK if I should buy the damn expensive Lonely Planet!!

So the nearest the bus could drop us was at the Ritz Calton...which on the map we got, didn't look far at all from the hotel I booked ( located at 3mins walk from the Nambu Terminal but the map just cuts at it and the streets are non-identified)...Luckily the Concierge got us in at his front desk and ran all over into his Office inside to make calls and gather Informations and prints...Since it was getting late...he suggested us to take a cab even if it was 3 subway stations away. The cabs stopping in front of the Hotel were only Deluxe ones ( more comfy, with a Interprete phone, receipt printer, etc.)..so I mentionned We just go on the street to catch a regular one. But he just pulled 2 of our luggages super fast, and escorted us to the street steeply DOWNHILL to catch the "non Deluxe cabs''...and even if he wrote me back the adress in korean script on a Post It...he made sure the driver knew his thing and punch the adress in his GPS. All that warm welcoming and helpfulness without wanting anything in return.../Closes the taxi door, big bye signs & bows for thank you/...Lol so much respect and will for help! I think would be the first time I got such a good staff in the tourism industry in another country other than OURS =P Service 5etoiles I like! If I had the chance to pass back, I would surely bring him a gift or somthing!

Life is so expensive in Korea...food is so spicy even when the waitress says NOT...
Our hotel room is quite decent & clean, with plasma TV, a PC, bathrobes, lil continental breakfast...
Only thing is couldn't find any hotel with TWIN beds...all double beds! read a lot about how locals also participate a lot in the hotel industry because of the lovers' escapade...some are really reputated to be Love Hotels.

SO we could find pretty complete ameneties kits just in case you don't have ANYTHING with you, which is separated in lil bags, with all the needed ( toothbrush, toothpaste, bath SPONGE, razor, hair gel & more) , one named LADY ( with hair elastic, cotton pads & Q-tip..and one called LOVE...and guess what..TWO condoms whoulala =)