Originally Posted by
danlee200
I guess you are a foreigner living in Seoul? FSS provides house car service for foreign guests. It seems the local law (?) prohibits providing house car services to local guests. The house car service is to places within 2km of the hotel. The car type is Mercedes. They might be flexible, yet there is a distance limit on how far the house car could go. I hire a car service not associated with the hotel instead. Very attentive and seems to be better than Miranda Priestly's driver in The Devil Wears Prada. He always arrives on time at the place I need him.
Any meals for two at restaurants in FSS will cost you more than 100 dollars. At Maru, two main dishes (Bibimbop and Kimchi Soup) and a bottle of sparkling water cost me around 100 dollars. Dinner at the Italian restaurant for two main dishes, two appetizers, two glasses of house wine, and a bottle of sparkling water cost me slightly more than 350 dollars. You could have lunch or dinner at Maru with the 100-dollar credit or use it at other restaurants at FSS.
As for the restaurant recommendations, there are plenty of places inside Gwanghwa Moon D tower, and the building behind it. There is a great Japanese Shabu-shabu place inside the D tower,
the restaurant info. If you like dumpling soup, there is a place called
https://m.blog.naver.com/caeliflos/222558788159 황선생 칼국수 right across the Gyungbokgoog palace's east entrance. It's so popular that the wait time during lunch time is pretty long so avoid lunch hours if you plan to try the place out.
Thanks again for these two recommendations. I have definitely noted them down, and I think we'll likely check these out next time we're near D-Tower. After I saw the pictures, and after I told my wife about it, she reminded me that we indeed have been in the D-Tower and seen that Shabu Shabu place. For the two times we've visited that building so far, we went to "On the Border" (a mistake, for sure) and the Chinese restaurant called "Duck and Noodle".