Private Seoul Tour: Explore Palaces, Markets, and Hanbok Rental

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Experience a private tour of Seoul, exploring palaces, markets, and even renting a hanbok. Customize your itinerary and enjoy local cuisine for a truly memorable trip to Korea.

Duration: 9 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

The Blue House - It is the presidential house where presidents used to work and live

What's Included

Entrance fee included in the tour package
Complimentary hotel pickup and drop-off service
Air-conditioned transportation throughout the tour
Knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide

What's Not Included

Lunch
Other acitivities - Except Gyeonbokgung Palace
Hanbok Rental

Additional Information

Don’t waste your time for other tourists waiting and compulsory shopping centers in package tour! Spend enough time at the tour destination and enjoy the tour with your own friend or family! This tour program will help you do that! In this tour program, you will visit major palaces, Gyeongbok palace after rental of hanbok(optional). So you will take…

Location

The Blue House

1 Cheongwadae-ro, Jongno-gu

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Dbandyo

Dec 2, 2024

Great orientation to an awesome city! - We did a private tour of Seoul for two days with Here Korea Travel. It gave us a great orientation to this incredible city and showed us a number of landmarks and neighborhoods across Seoul. We explored palaces (Gyeongbokgung and Changdeokgung), contemporary buildings (N Seoul Tower, Lotte Tower, COEX Mall), food markets (Gwangjang), quaint neighborhoods (Insadong), transitional villages (Bukchon Hanok Village, Namsangol Hanok Village) as well as Han River Park and Jogyesa Temple. Most people we spoke to later in our trip were surprised how much we had already seen in two days. Our guide Jake was great and provided us a great sense of Korean history and culture and provided us a great insights into everyday life in today’s Seoul. He had great dining recommendations and took us to a small Michelin star rated bibimbap restaurant in Namsan called Mokmyeoksanbang (목멱산방 in Korean) and it was awesome! I would highly recommend the tour.

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Rachelle_m

Nov 26, 2024

Good flavor of Seoul - We worked with Wookie on the agenda based on our timing. He was very flexible and gave us a good flavor of Seoul.

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Miranda_l

Nov 23, 2024

Wookie is an awesome tour guide - Wookie is awesome! Very nice, friendly, and accommodating. He knew a lot of the history at each site which made the tour very educational and fascinating. If money wasn’t an issue, I would request for a tour everyday here! Thank you for your time, Wookie, and you made our day so wonderful!

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Paul_s

Nov 19, 2024

Private tour of Seoul with James - The private tour with James of the Palace. He was very informative of the Palace history. The tour of the Temple and its surroundings filled with flowers was excellent.

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Sandra_s

Nov 18, 2024

Enjoyed the tour because of our wonderful guide. - Our guide Dennis was excellent. Very knowledgeable. He stood with us the whole day. Enjoyed the market we were taken to. We have never seen one quite like it.

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Glenn_g

Nov 16, 2024

Magnficent! - Wonderful tour of the historical places around Seoul. Sophia Kim was a knowledgeable & excellent guide, very good with time management and worked around her schedule to avoid protest crowd.

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Carmelita_l

Nov 16, 2024

Jung you’re the best! Seoul Tour - Jung was great in giving us the full day tour. She was great in speaking English. Very sweet and lively in taking us everywhere. Taking our photos and helping my sister. I highly recommend her. Thank you also to our driver, Kang who is there and that our tour was very safe. You’re the best Jung and thank you so much! ❤️Gamsahabnida!

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Dougg793

Nov 14, 2024

Great Way Start to Your Time in Seoul - Our first full day in Seoul and Christine and Young did a great job of taking us around! An extra bonus - Christine took 84 very good pictures of us. That may not be standard for all guides? But if you're lucky enough to get Christine like we did, I'm pretty sure she's done this a lot given the high quality of her pictures. After we booked the tour the agency contacted us to ask what we wanted to see. Christine contacted us a couple days ahead of the tour with a schedule which we modified based on her suggestions. It was a great day and maximized our time. A great way to start your stay in Seoul.

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Amy_s

Nov 11, 2024

Phenomenal tour - What an incredible experience! Our tour guide James was top notch. He taught us so much as we went around all the sites in the city, and was so thoughtful in our needs - water, lunch, making sure we had bathroom breaks as needed. Cannot recommend this tour enough!

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Jonathon_p

Nov 15, 2024

More like a private driver than a tour - Our tour operator was nice enough but this seems more like a private driver for the day. We got dropped off at one location that required us to buy our own tickets. That’s not a big deal but the tour advertises that their suggested tour would include tickets. The stops were good but very little background info was given. Seems like they left a LOT on the table that they could I’ve done. Overall was just a mid experience

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