Starting our Korea trip

Our first day was very tiring and stressful. Our flight got delayed which led us to miss our last connecting flight into Seoul. We were put on stand by and even then it wasn’t guaranteed that we had a going out flight. I was so stressed!! I just wanted to go to Korea already. But anyway we made the next day flight (due to some cancellations fortunately) and we were on our wait. The 11 hour flight is never fun but at least the food was decent with some pretty good movie selections.
 
Once we arrived into Seoul we hopped into a taxi and made our way to our hotel. For a courtyard the level of service was far more that what I had expected. It felt like we were in a 5 star resort or something. The staff was so hospitable and their appearance was so professional. I didn’t know whether or not to tip the bell man so we just did anyway. I know in Korea it’s not customary to tip but we were staying at a Marriott soooo I wasn’t sure if the same rules applied when to an American corporate company. ??
 
After we looked around the area we got dinner (which totally hit the spot) and walked around the time square plaza. We were so exhausted from our flight we had to call it quites pretty early into the night. (around 11pm) We had to save our energy for our journey ahead of us in the next 20 days........