Traveling to Seoul. Part One: Travel & Accommodation

Seoul - the capital of South Korea, the city of the future and a place where the locals as well as tourists. For Europeans, including Russian, is of particular relevance. Any Korean help lost tourists to the best of my ability, will ulybchiv and friendly. Respect and the maximum sympathy locals pleasantly surprised not used to such a reaction of domestic everyman. However, difficulties occur in communications: in the full knowledge of the English language in the majority of the local population count is not necessary. However, everything here contributes to a wonderful holiday.

Flight

If you Reszel visit South Korea, namely, the city of the future - Seoul, you must first decide on the date of travel and the nuances of the flight. Whether to buy a ticket for half a year before the intended date of travel or in the past month - does not matter. The low cost of the flight depends on the specific dates of departure to and return back. The average cost of economy class tickets per person round trip is 35 000 rubles ($ 1100). But if, for example, extend the trip to Korea for a day prior to the expected departure initially and, accordingly, fly for a couple of days later, the price of the flight will fall to 25 000 rubles ($ 760), thus you can save on a flight to 300$.

the trip will not be able to save in this case, the total value, because will have to spend additional money on accommodation, food and so on. However, it is always better to see and visit more than and more than a short trip, spending a tighter money.

Easily search for cheap flight offers service Skyscanner. And yes, there are applications for iOS, Android or Windows Phone.

In my case, a round trip ticket cost about 26 000 rubles ($ 800) from airlines Emirates. Before booking a ticket on the company's website, you can choose a landing site, the desired menu from a variety of dishes, and so on. D. The flight took place on the Airbus A380 aircraft with a 3-4-3 line-up seats. Each passenger was comfortable folding chair and its own display of 9 inches for viewing modern new films in many languages, including Russian. In addition, you can just listen to music or play games. The flight took 17 hours with one peresatkoy in Dubai. Do not worry about the time lost because of the transplant, because, for example, in Dubai, the largest Duty Free in the world that operates around the clock. So, take care of your money.

Moving around the city

Upon arrival in Seoul at the airport, you can book a taxi. Passenger transport services provide taxi drivers with special certificates and certified knowledge of English. Taxi is relatively cheap: for the hour ride through the city, we had to pay only 40 $.

Seoul Metro - is a separate conversation. Understand the subway map is not easy, therefore, better to plot a route in a quiet and peaceful place, not on the fly. Although the Seoul Subway is fundamentally different from the same Moscow for the better: there are no queues, crowds and chaos of this. Everything possible is clear, unless, of course, to know in advance the destination. To get from one destination to the other points to overcome a huge number of stations and repeatedly change from one line to another, so it is often much easier and faster to use ground transportation, or even foot.

To travel on the subway travel is required, which must be pre-defined amount of money. The fare is differentiated depending on the distance of travel. At the entrance to the subway from the card is debited minialnaya cost of the trip and, if prishlost travel quite a bit, when you leave the travel will not be charged money. If you have to travel a lot, when you exit the subway to the card will be charged an additional amount actually proydonnogo way above the minimum rate of travel, which, incidentally, is 1,050 won, which is equal to approximately one dollar (1100 won).

Accommodation

In any modern capital, there is a huge choice of places to stay. Seoul - is no exception. To focus on the city and the impressions of the journey and do not spend a lot of money on accommodation, I recommend to stop the choice on the hostels, which in Seoul is available in sufficient quantities. The average night's stay at the hostel for one person will cost about $ 20. During our trip to Seoul we stayed in two hostels. And in each of them a lot of empty seats, so if for some reason did not like the room, right on the spot, you can move to a completely empty 4-bed room in the neighborhood. The situation in the hostels is always more than comfortable: everywhere is clean and tidy, there's free Wi-Fi, or even desktop computers for guests. No surprises at this point.

In the next section I will discuss the interesting places in Seoul.