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Seoul Tourism Organisation is currently doing a promotion to line up with with Seoul Festa 2023. 30% off all Discover Seoul Pass as follows:
24h Pass: ₩50,000 → ₩35,000 (A$56.57 → A$39.59)
48h Pass: ₩70,000 → ₩49,000 (A$79.19 → A$55.47)
72h Pass: ₩90,000 → ₩63,000 (A$101.82 → A$71.31)
(Using XE.com rates of 1 AUD = 883.884 KRW)
Taken from their website:
What is a Discover Seoul Pass?
Discover Seoul Pass is the Seoul’s first “free pass” available for 24 hours, 48 hours, and 72 hours.
Using the pass, you can visit Seoul's representative tourist attractions for free and enjoy various discount benefits in areas such as transportation, shopping and performance.Free Entry
Have free access to major tourist attractions in SeoulDiscount
Discount benefits on performance shopping and one-day classTransportation
Offers transportation card,
Airport Express Train(AREX),
Seoul Public Bike(Ttareungi)
Airport Bus(K Limousine)
The pass (both physical and digital) have an expiration date of 5 Years from the date of issue, so it may be good to get now if you have plans to travel to Seoul in the future.
A full list of things which the pass is good for can be found here.
To achieve the most value out of these passes, you would want to plan 1/2/3 days worth of activities that include as many things on their free-pass list as possible. The timer counts down as soon as the first activity is scanned (eg. Using the Arex Airport Express Train on a Monday 8pm means the 24hr pass will expire on Tuesday 8pm, etc.). The pass provides free access to the following (Not a complete list, I'm adding ones which provide the best value and some tourist traps sites:
- Lotte World (₩62,000 normally ~A$70.20)
- Coex Aquarium (₩33,000 normally ~A$37.36)
- Aqua Planet 63 (₩27,000 normally ~A$30.57)
- Gwangmyeong Cave (₩6,000 normally ~A$6.79)
- Hanboknam(Their website is showing from ₩50,000 ~A$56.58) (Pass is for 90min hire though)
- Gyeongbokgung Palace (₩3,000 normally ~A$3.39)
- Changdeokgung Palace (₩3,000 normally ~A$3.39)
- Deoksugung Palace (₩3,000 normally ~A$3.39)
- Changyeonggung Palace (₩3,000 normally ~A$3.39)
- Arex Airport Express (₩9,500 normally ~A$10.76) Note: One-way ticket only.
- Seoul City Tour Bus (₩20,000 - ₩24,000 Depending on route ~A$22.65 - ~A$27.18)
- Yellow Balloon City Buss (₩17,000 normally ~A$19.25)
- Figure Museum W (₩15,000 normally ~A$16.98)
- E Cruise ((₩16,900 - ₩29,900 depending which cruise option taken. ~A$19.13 - ~A$33.84)
- Zoolung Zoolung(Indoor Zoo) (Website didn't translate it all but I'm seeing prices from ₩17,000 to ₩270,000 ~A$19.24 - ~A$305.68. Not sure what the pass includes with this one)
Some things close on Mondays, some on Tuesdays, others on the First and Third Monday of every month. Make sure you check beforehand.
Discounted benefits vary from 10% - 30% depending on the activity.
Pay using mobile to avoid having to install a "payment security" software. The Android app is literally just a browser portal to the websites so you can skip it and just use the browser instead.
They originally had issues with selling the 72hr pass when using the discount code but it got resolved just the other day, YMMV but you may or may not run into issues when buying. Setting the pickup date doesn't seem to work as it defaults to the day of purchase (you are provided with a barcode to scan for a voucher, and then you give the voucher to their service desk to get the pass). I have made an enquiry to support but am yet to hear back from them. Setting pickup location works.
More information can be found in their FAQs
Ill give you a tour for free ㅋㅋㅋ.
But pretty good value, especially with entry to Lotte World (Korean type of Disneyland).