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Heading back to Japan for one more Selfish Trip!

09 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hyatt, Japan, Tokyo

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Andaz Tokyo, Park Hyatt Tokyo, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Shibu

Hello! It’s been an embarrassingly long time since we last wrote something, hasn’t it? Just under 7 months if the date on the post below is to be believed.

7 months…

I can remember a time not too long ago where Mrs. Selfish and I were cranking out a post a day. Now I’m lucky if I get two done a year. That’s life with a busy toddler, I suppose.

Toddler Selfish

Toddler Selfish loving life at the playground.

Toddler Selfish has kept us so busy, that we’ve only managed 3 trips this year! One to Napa, one to San Diego to visit the zoo, and one to the East Coast to visit family.

Hippo!!

Hippo!! Also, Toddler Selfish.

So when my parents offered to watch Toddler Selfish over the Winter holiday, I immediately jumped at the offer and booked a trip to Japan.

Yes, Japan.

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Traveling with an Infant Means Less International Travel for Now

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Hyatt, New York City, North America, United States

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Arizona, Chicago, Hawaii, Kauai, New York, Seattle, Sedona, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Vancouver

Baby Selfish is now 5 months old and is starting to transition out of the “will-sleep-anywhere” phase to the “wants-to-look-grab-and-yell-at-everything” phase.

New Here

Don’t believe the hype. She’s actually been around for several months.

While I am a huge fan of cheap third world countries, Baby Selfish seems to be thriving under a steady routine, and I’m not sure what third world countries she could visit at this point. Probably none.

So instead, we decided to explore more of good ol’ North America. Check out our 2015 – 2016 travel schedule.

2015 - 2016 travels

USA! USA! USA! Also… Canada.

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Keeping it Short and Suite at the Park Hyatt Tokyo

25 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hyatt, Japan, Tokyo

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Guest of Honor, Park Hyatt, Park Hyatt Tokyo, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, suite, Tokyo

Mrs. Selfish and I stayed at the Park Hyatt Tokyo twice before – once during the Selfish Year trip, and a second time during our trip to the Maldives. It’s one of our favorite hotels in the world, and one I was looking forward to sharing it with Baby Selfish.

During our first two stays, we had temporary diamond status (back when Hyatt was overly generous with their diamond trial), which meant we had free room service breakfast, access to the sauna, and free admission to the NYC bar during the diamond happy hour. Amazing benefits, to be sure, and ones which we were not going to get this time around as lowly Platinum members.

Upgrading to the Suite & Guest of Honor status

Since I still had a diamond suite certificate to burn, I booked the three of us into a king suite for two nights on a severely reduced paid stay using a combination of the Best Rate Guaranteed 20% discount and buying Hyatt gift certificates at 15% off.

In the end, we ended up paying something like 55% of the rack rate for the room and were upgraded to a suite. Pretty great.

Since we wanted to spend a total of 4 nights at the PHT so Mrs. Selfish’s parents could recover from jetlag, I booked the remaining two nights in a standard king, transferring points over to Cousin Selfish’s account so we could try out the Guest of Honor status.

If you’ve never tried Guest of Honor status you basically get to partake in a diamond member’s benefits if they book the room for you with points. Hyatt’s transfer policy is fairly generous, though a member can only receive points from another member once every 30 days, so make sure to transfer all your points at once!

I was secretly hoping that the Park Hyatt Tokyo would give us the best of both worlds and keep us in the suite for 4 nights while giving us diamond status, but didn’t have high hopes since this IS Japan after all. As expected, they followed the rules down to the letter.

Baby Selfish enjoying the view.

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2.5 Nights at the Fabulous Conrad Tokyo

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hilton, Japan, Tokyo

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Conrad, Conrad Tokyo, HHonors, Hilton, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

Let me start this review by saying that I am torn. Mrs. Selfish and I are, by nature, Hyatt loyalists. There are numerous reasons: better perks, more consistent quality, low cost awards, etc. etc.

Yet every now and then, we stay at a Hilton property or, (dare I say) Intercontinental that is not only good, but is excellent.

The Conrad Hilton is definitely one of these properties and if you’re looking to burn some Hilton free nights, I would consider this an excellent use of points.

This was our fourth Conrad property, and while the Conrad Koh Samui and the Conrad Rangali wowed, the Conrad Singapore was a bit meh. Whereas that hotel fell flat on its face (other than the excellent breakfast), the Conrad Tokyo more than rose to the challenge.

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Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Club Carson, Dublin, Europe, Ireland, Northern Ireland

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Club Carlson, Dublin, Letterkenny, Radisson Blu Dublin, Radisson Blu Letterkenny, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post seven of fourteen on our trip to Northern Ireland and Croatia, minus our mini Game of Thrones tour. Those posts can be found here.

  • Intro to Northern Ireland & Croatia
  • Recovering from Jetlag in Dublin: Dublin Castle and Trinity College
  • Bubblin’ in Dublin: Dublin Eats
  • Chasing Scully: Staying at the Hilton Belfast
  • The Land of Giants and the Northernmost Point in Ireland
  • Hiking Glenveagh National Park
  • Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny
  • Heating up in Zadar
  • Azure Waters Await at Kornati National Park
  • Falling for Picturesque Plitvice
  • Let’s Never Split
  • The Jewel of the Adriatic: Dubrovnik
  • Walking the Wall in Dubrovnik
  • A Brief Stop in Bosnia

Mrs. Selfish and I have a pretty clear hierarchy when it comes to hotel preferences: Hyatt, Hilton/Starwood/Marriott, IHG, other.  There are admittedly a ton of great hotels out there, but I’m pretty cheap when it comes down to it. I mean, why pay for a good (or even a great) hotel when you can get it for free?

Unfortunately, Northern Ireland wasn’t exactly swimming in hotel options, so I decided to try a new program: Club Carlson.

Mrs. Selfish and I each got the Club Carlson business cards back in the summer of 2013 because the sign-up bonus was decent: Gold status (which meant free internet & breakfast) 80,000 Club Carlson points and 40,000 on each anniversary. The real kicker, however, was the card’s #1 feature: redeem one award night, and get a second one free!

Since we were doing a lot of fast travel in Ireland, I decided to give Club Carlson a whirl, so I booked us for two nights in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin and two nights in the Radisson Blu Letterkenny.

The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin

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Chasing Scully: Staying at the Hilton Belfast

11 Sunday Jan 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Europe, Hilton, Northern Ireland

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Belfast, Hilton Belfast, Northern Ireland, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post four of fourteen on our trip to Northern Ireland and Croatia, minus our mini Game of Thrones tour. Those posts can be found here.

  • Intro to Northern Ireland & Croatia
  • Recovering from Jetlag in Dublin: Dublin Castle and Trinity College
  • Bubblin’ in Dublin: Dublin Eats
  • Chasing Scully: Staying at the Hilton Belfast
  • The Land of Giants and the Northernmost Point in Ireland
  • Hiking Glenveagh National Park
  • Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny
  • Heating up in Zadar
  • Azure Waters Await at Kornati National Park
  • Falling for Picturesque Plitvice
  • Let’s Never Split
  • The Jewel of the Adriatic: Dubrovnik
  • Walking the Wall in Dubrovnik
  • A Brief Stop in Bosnia

Mrs. Selfish and I drove for 6 hours from Dublin to Belfast, taking the long way (the drive normally takes an hour or so) during our Game of Thrones tour.  Since we were traveling during peak tourist season, I tried to have us stay in as many chain hotels as possible to mitigate our costs for the trip.

While I normally like to stay at Hyatt hotels, they don’t have much of a footprint in Ireland (though that is changing, with the opening of a Park Hyatt in Dublin this year), so Mrs. Selfish and I fell back on Hilton.

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Intro to Northern Ireland & Croatia

08 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Europe, Hilton, Ireland

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Belfast, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Glenveagh National Park, Kornati, Letterkenny, Radisson Blu Dublin, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Split, Zadar

This is post one of fourteen on our trip to Northern Ireland and Croatia, minus our mini Game of Thrones tour. Those posts can be found here.

  • Intro to Northern Ireland & Croatia
  • Recovering from Jetlag in Dublin: Dublin Castle and Trinity College
  • Bubblin’ in Dublin: Dublin Eats
  • Chasing Scully: Staying at the Hilton Belfast
  • The Land of Giants and the Northernmost Point in Ireland
  • Hiking Glenveagh National Park
  • Singing the Blus in Dublin & Letterkenny
  • Heating up in Zadar
  • Azure Waters Await at Kornati National Park
  • Falling for Picturesque Plitvice
  • Let’s Never Split
  • The Jewel of the Adriatic: Dubrovnik
  • Walking the Wall in Dubrovnik
  • A Brief Stop in Bosnia

Since Mrs. Selfish is a huge fan of Game of Thrones, I decided to plan a trip for her birthday that would two new locations for us: Northern Ireland and Croatia. The trip spanned 18 days, which would have made for one MASSIVE trip report, so we decided to break it up into two separate trip reports for the sake of simplicity.

If you are interested in our Game of Thrones tour, you can find that report here. Otherwise, this trip report will cover the other things we saw and ate in Northern Ireland, Croatia, and Bosnia.

This trip was INSANE. Seriously crazy. For starters, we kicked off the trip with TWO REDEYES. Yeah. Two.

On US Airways, no less, not on a fancy European, Asian, or Middle Eastern carrier.

Intro to Ireland & Croatia 001

First we flew from San Francisco to Charlotte on a redeye, landing in that city at 8 the following morning. After getting 5 hours of sleep at the Hyatt Place Charlotte, we ate our weight in Carolina BBQ before boarding our 7pm flight to Dublin.

Intro to Ireland & Croatia 003

From there we made our way to the Radisson Blu Dublin, which I booked with 44,000 Club Carlson points for 2 nights. We spent 2 days trying to shake 8 hours of jetlag, hitting old favorites and new sites alike.

Intro to Ireland & Croatia 004

The ever-so-swanky buffet at the Radisson Blu Dublin.

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Baby Selfish’s 1st International Trip: Japan!

30 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hilton, Hyatt, Japan, Kyoto, Tokyo

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Baby Selfish, Japan, Kyoto, Nara, Park Hyatt Tokyo, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Tokyo

Mrs. Selfish and I decided to take our Selfish Year journey as an end cap to our fading young-adult years. We had always enjoyed traveling as young professionals, and decided a year abroad together would be a great way to “get it out of our systems” prior to having a kid.

Boy were we wrong.

A year later and I’m more addicted to traveling than ever. In fact, after settling in San Francisco, we ended up spending over 3 of the next 15 months outside of the country.

So when we found out Mrs. Selfish was pregnant, I immediately did what any other miles & points enthusiast would do in my shoes and started planning Baby Selfish’s first international trip.

Yep, back to Japan!

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Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

29 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Hyatt, North America

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Hyatt, Hyatt Regency Montreal, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post sixteen of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

Finding decent award flights from Europe to the States is a pain. Finding decent award flights from Europe to the States during the Summer is a nightmare. As America’s go-to playground during the Summer, everyone and their mum seems to head to Europe during the June – August timeframe.

Ideally, Mrs. Selfish and I would have flown Athens to Frankfurt to San Francisco, but 5 months out I couldn’t find any availability. Instead, I settled for the best known award trick – flying through Canada.

Since we had 14 hours overnight to kill in Montreal, I was pleased to find the Hyatt Regency Montreal, a category 3 Hyatt (now Category 2 in 2015). I also discovered an old childhood friend lived in the area, so we decided to meet up for dinner.

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Mrs. Selfish and I missed our ferry from Mykonos to Athens, but managed to catch the next one out.

Pro-tip: Mykonos has 2 ports, and which one you use is determined by the ferry company, NOT the ferry destination.

From there we stayed at the Athens Hilton one last time, before boarding a morning flight to London, where we grabbed some fish and chips, before jumping on an Air Canada flight bound for Montreal.

Like EVA airlines, Air Canada doesn’t really have much of a 1st class section in their fleet, but their Business Class was excellent and we arrived at 6pm.

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Room with a View: Staying in Santorini

19 Friday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Europe, Greece, Santorini

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Captain's House, Oia, Santorini, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post seven of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

After an activity-packed stay in Athens, Mrs. Selfish and I left the Hilton Athens and headed to the airport. Our destination, Santorini: one of the most beautiful islands in the Aegean Sea.

The flight was brief, and before I knew it we were in a van bound for Oia, the beautiful cliff side village filled with jaw dropping views that have become synonymous with Santorini.

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Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens

14 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Athens, Europe, Greece, Hilton

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Acropolis, Asiana, Athens, Hilton Athens, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post two of sixteen of our summer trip to Greece. Check out our other posts in the series here:

  • Greece Lightning: Heading to Greece
  • Acropolis for Breakfast: Staying at the Hilton Athens
  • Starting at the Top: The Acropolis
  • Oompa! Eating Athens
  • Taking it Indoors: Athen’s Museums
  • Athen’s Other Sites
  • Room with a View: Staying in Santorini
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 1
  • Santorini’s Spectacular Sights: Part 2
  • Looking for Santorini’s Best Eats
  • It’s All Greek to Me: Heading to Naxos
  • There’s a Meat Town in Naxos!
  • Shots! Shots! ShotsShotsShots! Heading to Mykonos
  • A Delightful Day Trip to Delos
  • The Trashy Side of the Greek Islands
  • Bling Bling y’all! Upgraded at the Hyatt Regency Montreal

After a busy night in Taipei, and a trip to the best shaved ice place ever, Ice Monster, Mrs. Selfish and I woke up at 4 in the morning and hopped in a cab to the Taipei airport.

A little groggy, we were awakened by our cab driver’s erratic style – namely using the gas and the brake pedals simultaneously. That takes talent.

Unfortunately, Mrs. Selfish’s was starting to experience morning sickness, so we were more than happy to exit the cab 30 minutes later to start the next leg of our journey: Taipei to Athens by way of Seoul and Frankfurt.

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Admittedly, I was pretty excited since we were going to get to try out Asiana first class from Seoul to Frankfurt, a 11+ hour flight.

While the seats were a little dated, the service and food was outstanding! I especially enjoyed eating bibimbap at 30,000 feet – though technically this was probably more like fried rice since the bowl was not a sizzling hotpot, so the rice couldn’t achieve the proper level of crispiness.

21+ hours of travel later, we arrived at our next stop: Athens.

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4 Nights is Not Enough at the Park Hyatt Busan

08 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Busan, Hyatt, South Korea

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Busan, Park Hyatt, Park Hyatt Busan, Selfish Year, Selfish Years

This is post eight of twelve on our autumn trip to South Korea. Check out the other posts in this series here:

  • Back for One Last Score: Intro to our Korean Babymoon
  • 4 Nights at the Stylish Park Hyatt Seoul
  • Checking Out Seoul’s Spirits
  • Eating Our Way Through Seoul
  • Seoul’s Other Palaces
  • Staying at the Hilton Gyeongju
  • Visiting the Silla Kingdom: 1 Day in Gyeongju
  • 4 Nights is Not Enough at the Park Hyatt Busan
  • Temple Time in Busan
  • Tricked out Again: The Busan Trick Eye Museum
  • Busan BBQ: A Mixed Bag
  • 14 Hours in Hong Kong: Protests, Dim Sum & Giant Buddhas

Mrs. Selfish and I have stayed at a lot of Park Hyatt hotels since we discovered the world of miles and points. The Park Hyatts Zurich, Istanbul, Tokyo (twice), Sydney, and most recently Seoul, come to mind.

And while this is by no means an exhaustive list of Park Hyatt’s (there are currently 35, according to my count on Hyatt’s webpage), I can easily say that our stay at the Park Hyatt Busan was the best stay I’ve ever had at a Park Hyatt hotel.

Good view? Check. Good breakfast? Check. Good service? Check. Good room? Double-check! We basically had the perfect stay here, but it took a lot of coordination on the hotel’s side.

tl;dr: stay here if you’re in Busan. It’s #$(*&#$ awesome!

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Staying at the Hilton Gyeongju

06 Saturday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Gyeongju, Hilton, South Korea

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Gyeongju, Hilton Gyeongju, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, South Korea

This is post six of twelve on our autumn trip to South Korea. Check out the other posts in this series here:

  • Back for One Last Score: Intro to our Korean Babymoon
  • 4 Nights at the Stylish Park Hyatt Seoul
  • Checking Out Seoul’s Spirits
  • Eating Our Way Through Seoul
  • Seoul’s Other Palaces
  • Staying at the Hilton Gyeongju
  • Visiting the Silla Kingdom: 1 Day in Gyeongju
  • 4 Nights is Not Enough at the Park Hyatt Busan
  • Temple Time in Busan
  • Tricked out Again: The Busan Trick Eye Museum
  • Busan BBQ: A Mixed Bag
  • 14 Hours in Hong Kong: Protests, Dim Sum & Giant Buddhas

Mrs. Selfish and I initially planned to stay in a hanok, a traditional Korean hotel, during our one night stay in Gyeongju. Unfortunately, the more pregnant Mrs. Selfish became, the less comfortable we thought she’d be. Especially since sleeping in a hanok means sleeping on a pad on the floor and using an external bathroom, something which no pregnant woman would be excited to try.

Fortunately, Gyeongju is a major Korean tourist destination and is an odd mix of history, theme parks, and kitschy attractions which means they have a ton of chain hotels (though oddly, no Hard Rock cafe). Since Mrs. Selfish had a fair number of HHonors points on hand, we decided to book a night at the Hilton Gyeongju.

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4 Nights at the Stylish Park Hyatt Seoul

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hyatt, Seoul, South Korea

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deluxe, Hyatt, Park Hyatt, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Seoul, standard, suite

This is post two of twelve on our autumn trip to South Korea. Check out the other posts in this series here:

  • Back for One Last Score: Intro to our Korean Babymoon
  • 4 Nights at the Stylish Park Hyatt Seoul
  • Checking Out Seoul’s Spirits
  • Eating Our Way Through Seoul
  • Seoul’s Other Palaces
  • Staying at the Hilton Gyeongju
  • Visiting the Silla Kingdom: 1 Day in Gyeongju
  • 4 Nights is Not Enough at the Park Hyatt Busan
  • Temple Time in Busan
  • Tricked out Again: The Busan Trick Eye Museum
  • Busan BBQ: A Mixed Bag
  • 14 Hours in Hong Kong: Protests, Dim Sum & Giant Buddhas

For our first stop in South Korea, Mrs. Selfish and I decided to head back to Seoul. Seoul is an easy city to get to from the States and is the hub for Korean Air, which has direct flights from several cities including San Francisco.

Seoul was also an ideal place to recover from our 16 hours of jetlag, since we already had an idea of where to go, what to do, and what to eat. To make things even less stressful, I booked us for 4 nights in the stylish Park Hyatt Seoul, set in the heart of Gangnam.

Yep, Gangnam style reference – except! – you can actually see the top of the Park Hyatt Seoul in the bottom right corner of this shot. It’s that close. Unfortunately, no Psy sightings this time around.

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Back for One Last Score: Intro to our Korean Babymoon

01 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Accommodations, Asia, Hyatt, South Korea

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Busan, Gyeongju, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Seoul, South Korea

This is post one of twelve on our autumn trip to South Korea. Check out the other posts in this series here:

  • Back for One Last Score: Intro to our Korean Babymoon
  • 4 Nights at the Stylish Park Hyatt Seoul
  • Checking Out Seoul’s Spirits
  • Eating Our Way Through Seoul
  • Seoul’s Other Palaces
  • Staying at the Hilton Gyeongju
  • Visiting the Silla Kingdom: 1 Day in Gyeongju
  • 4 Nights is Not Enough at the Park Hyatt Busan
  • Temple Time in Busan
  • Tricked out Again: The Busan Trick Eye Museum
  • Busan BBQ: A Mixed Bag
  • 14 Hours in Hong Kong: Protests, Dim Sum & Giant Buddhas

For our last pre-Baby Selfish trip Mrs. Selfish and I decided to give South Korea one more go. Having visited Seoul during our Selfish Year abroad, we decided to visit two more locations: the old Silla Empire Capital of Gyeongju, and the beautiful beach city of Busan.

South Korea gets a very luke warm reception Stateside for some reason. My guess would be that it is overshadowed by Japan and China, much like Taiwan.

While it is a shame for South Korean tourism, it’s pretty sweet if you’re looking to get away from fellow Northern Americans.

 Especially with awesome sites like the Beomusa Temple.

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