recommendations for (private) tour around Seoul?
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recommendations for (private) tour around Seoul?
I´ll have a 22h layover in ICN on an upcoming trip: arrive ICN at 12p.m., fly out the following morning.
I´m thinking hiring a private tour guide would be the best option to see some of the highlights Seoul has to offer.
1) Is it worth it to do a tour for 4-6h? (I´ve had good experience hiring private tour guides in Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and 5h-6h was a good amount of time to see 2-4 interesting places)
2) Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced private tour guide? Doesn´t have to be anything luxurious - just a good, knowledgable tour guide who also speaks English.
Thanks in advance!
I´m thinking hiring a private tour guide would be the best option to see some of the highlights Seoul has to offer.
1) Is it worth it to do a tour for 4-6h? (I´ve had good experience hiring private tour guides in Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and 5h-6h was a good amount of time to see 2-4 interesting places)
2) Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced private tour guide? Doesn´t have to be anything luxurious - just a good, knowledgable tour guide who also speaks English.
Thanks in advance!
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It's a good 1 hour drive from ICN to heart of Seoul with traffic, depending on traffic it might take longer. As an alternative, the certain group tours that airport offers for 6 hours are free. I believe lunch is also provided at no charge. Usually these tours have less than 10 people in the group. The 3 hour tour that my family was in only had 3 other strangers.
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I was looking at the blog, seoulistic.com for my friend. It's a very popular blog here and has great planning info. Use it all the time. Turns out they do have private tours: http://seoulistic.com/custom-korea-tours/
NO that is not a plug. I don't know them personally at all.
NO that is not a plug. I don't know them personally at all.
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I was looking at the blog, seoulistic.com for my friend. It's a very popular blog here and has great planning info. Use it all the time. Turns out they do have private tours: http://seoulistic.com/custom-korea-tours/
NO that is not a plug. I don't know them personally at all.
NO that is not a plug. I don't know them personally at all.
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Bumping - still needed
I am looking for the morning private tour of Seoul - 2-3 places of interest and then depositing me to ICN for my 14:30pm flight.
The web site mentioned earlier in the thread doesn't seem to work.
AX
The web site mentioned earlier in the thread doesn't seem to work.
AX
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I found a great guide. Young, great energy, willing to adlib and make it work, fluent in English and Spanish. I can give you her email if you PM me.
Last edited by abaheti; Jan 6, 2017 at 11:49 am