Jeju Island | Per capita 3k Jeju Island strategy is here
1. Passport must be valid for more than six months, a blank passport is also fine, the three of us entered smoothly with blank passports.
2. The three of us exchanged 500,000 Korean won = ¥2758.8, which was just enough for four days, and some places accept Alipay and WeChat payments so no worries.
3. The mobile data card was purchased on 🍑, just insert the card upon landing and restart the phone to use it, if you have a dual SIM slot, you don't need to remove your own card.
4. Be sure to prepare a return flight itinerary, a PDF will do, they will check it during check-in.
5. It takes two hours to arrive from Tianjin, at first I was wondering why it showed two hours for a flight from 19.15-22.25, which is clearly three hours, but then I realized there is a one-hour time difference in Jeju Island, and the local time is displayed upon landing.
6. papago: A translation app that can be downloaded in China, very useful, supports typing and voice translation, essential. transit card: You can check the balance of a transit card, just open the app and place the card on the phone to check the balance, essential. kakaot: A taxi-hailing app, registration is a bit troublesome, using Alipay's "Overseas Taxi" service is the same, as they are linked. kakaomap: A map app, very useful and accurate for real-time buses, you can see which bus to take and how long it will take. Baidu Maps: You can search for your destination in Chinese very accurately, but it's best not to use it for buses, as Baidu Maps doesn't have as comprehensive or accurate bus routes as kakaomap.
7. On the plane, the crew will give you two forms, a health status questionnaire and an entry card, which I filled out using a template from another blogger. It's okay if you fill it out incorrectly, as there are many writing desks with blank forms available at the airport after landing, which highlights the importance of bringing a pen!
8. After completing the entry, it was already past eleven o'clock local time, the buses were long gone, kakaot took too long to register, so I used ZFB's "Overseas Taxi" service, which is the same, and a twenty-minute ride cost ¥150, so expensive.
9. There is a CU convenience store on the third floor of Jeju Island Airport where you can buy a transit card for 4,000 Korean won, but it closes at 10 pm, I had collected it in advance on 🐟, you can also purchase a pre-charged one on 🍑, or you can buy one at any convenience store here.
10. There is a CU convenience store downstairs of the hotel, so I went to buy some food and topped up 10,000 won on the transit card (we mostly used buses for four whole days, 15,000 was enough). You can pay with ZFB at the convenience store, but you must use cash to top up the transit card. Korean instant noodles do not come with a fork, you have to ask the cashier for chopsticks.
11. The hotel environment is not bad, we booked a twin room, but there were three of us, and they charged an extra 10,000 per night, losing 20,000 in total, I thought it would be like in China where they wouldn't care (you can learn from this, maybe two people can check in and then), also the toilet paper in the hotel bathroom is really bad, it's the kind that no one uses in China.
The first day went smoothly like this.