Sunday, April 4, 2010

Asiana airlines overnight stop Seoul

Will be travelling LHR to SYD return in October. Will have enforced overnight stay in Seoul on return flight. Asiana Airlines provide a hotel stay. Does anyone know which hotel they use? Unable to find any up-to-date info.



Asiana airlines overnight stop Seoul


We recently flew Asiana (highly recommended; good prices, superb Flight Attendants, roomy seats etc) and our Transit Hotel was the Royal Seoul.





About an hour%26#39;s travel from the airport. Very pleasant, with food vouchers for both dinner %26amp; breakfast thrown in. Food is not fantastic but it was complimentary so no complaints. There are a couple of Premium restaurants in the hotel if you prefer.





Everything is pretty well organised, the coachs are on time to take you to and from the hotel, the Hotel staff are helpful. Organising the transit is straightforward but make sure the FA%26#39;s direct you to the Asiana desk - we spent forever wandering around the airport looking for it (not signposted) and ended up at the back of a very long queue. But all is fine when you get to the desk, they issue you with a hotel voucher and you%26#39;ll wait maybe 20 mins or so whilst everyone else is dealt with then hop onto the transit coach.





The Rpyal is in a buzzy district too, Myong-dong. Just remember to ensure that you have suitable clothing packed for the time of year. We flew in from Sydney in shorts and Tshirts to minus 7 degrees with nothing else to keep us warm in our hand luggage ! The sensible thing is to send your main luggage through without checking it out.





Other people were sent onto another hotel, not sure which one but it may have been the Hilton as I saw a coach waiting outside. I was also told by a regular traveller that they also have a deal with the Sheraton but I didn%26#39;t see any evidence of anyone from our flight being sent there.



Asiana airlines overnight stop Seoul


It varies.



Dont count on Royal Seoul- we got Hotel June, near airport.




Thanks for your replies but all a bit of a moot point now as we were there in October, however, we were also put into the Hotel June near the airport. Room was ok but food not great- not warm enough. Perfectly fine for one night. However, don%26#39;t think will fly with Asiana again unless it was the only option available. I couldn%26#39;t face rice for at least 3 weeks after we got home %26amp; I%26#39;d had the ';western'; meal options on the plane.




funny that. I always fly Asiana to anywhere in Asia or Australia, or NZ.



I find the food excellent.




I did get 1 good meal on the plane-out of 8- which is not a good percentage. Just a bit of variety would have been nice but each meal was either some non-descript fish with a gloopy sauce + rice or beef with a gloopy sauce + rice.It all tasted the same %26amp; was quite nasty as a breakfast. Now you are probably thinking I%26#39;m a ';burger %26amp; chips'; type of person- definately not. I will try anything once %26amp; I really love Asian food, especially Thai %26amp; Malaysian. Maybe the catering co. was having a bad month. Didn%26#39;t find the plane too comfortable either- think I%26#39;ve been spoiled using Malaysian Airways

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