Seoul Land — Attraction in Gwacheon-si

Seoul Land is the amusement park I used to go all the time when I was young. When I visited as a mum with my kids this time I got really impressed by the facilities and pricing. I only paid near $20 with all the possible discount available at the park. All the fun activities for kids are usually available at extra $2. There was a giant white mountain-looking trampoline + slide play area for free and so many more play area where kids can play for hours that are free too. I have been to many places but I never been to anything like this - a big and super kids-friends amusement park and this became my kids’ favourite of all now. The parade and beautiful photo zones are also impressive. We spent all day but it wasn’t enough so we went to visit Seoul Land again as my kids were begging😂 My kids are 3 and 5 but they could take more than 20 rides. I felt safe at all time. Food options are limited but some nice and proper restaurants here and there so get the map and have a look. I personally really enjoyed Korean BBQ Ssambob (쌈밥) at Ssam-ee-mat 쌈이맛. They offered unlimited side Korean dishes! Yuuum! There were still slush, cotton candy and few food options for families.

I only visited during the week as I know how it gets busy on weekends in anywhere in Korea. I didn’t have to wait for more than like 5 mins for every ride except few rides for 10-20mins. But expect to wait for an hour if if you plan to visit on weekends.

Free parking. Very affordable pricing for entry and paid entertainment facilities Clean and friendly

I can’t ask for more. I am flying again to Korea to visit Seoul Land. No joke. My favourite as I fee Seoul Land was more young kids friendly than anywhere else including Disney Land or Universal studio.

This is a fun place for young and old people too. Only thing to consider is weather as...

SEOUL LAND - The Saddest Place on Earth?

Our Klook booking (which by the way allows you to buy tickets at less than half the price that you can on the Seoul Land website) said the park was open from 9.30. We got there at 9.50, but it only opened at 10am. We were the only ones at the front gate of this large theme park.

But presumably because there was a small crowd (turned out there were many more people who must have arrived via another gate), practically ALL the rides were closed until at least 10.30am and many only opened after 2pm, which was very annoying. As a result, we only got to do maybe 8 different rides in the whole trip with our 9 year old.

Because so few rides are open, and because the park is large, expect to walk and walk and walk trying to find what is open.

This park was much cheaper (on Klook at least) than Disneyland or Legoland in California, but it was pretty sad. The reason for the 2 stars rather than one is that our daughter still enjoyed it, the queues for the tiny number of open rides were short, and the price was not that high.

We bought the Seoul Land - Zoo combo, which gives you another activity to do in the price. The zoo was OK. I would recommend if you are going to Seoul Land on a weekday (we went on Tuesday) or if it is rainy in the morning, do the zoo first, then arrive at the park...

We had such a great experience at Seoul Land, we were debating between here and Lotte World and we are so glad we picked this one! We barely had any wait times for the rides, the park wasn't crowded at all, the food inside was super cheap, even cheaper than it is at the markets, and we were able to find a coupon online for a discount for foreigners if you show your passport so the tickets were very affordable too! (You can buy tickets at the entrance for about 49,000 krw normally, we only paid 25,000 with our coupon!) If you're over 180 cm you may be too tall for some of the rides, we were both under 185 cm for the biggest roller coaster, but immediately regretted sitting in the back row as there wasn't enough room for our legs, and the ride was very jerky so we now have bruises on our knees. Other than the big orange roller coaster though, the rides were plenty spacious and very enjoyable. The highlight, though, was the Alice in Wonderland Wonderhouse! It wasn't open when we walked in, but thankfully we passed by later and it had opened. Unfortunately it seemed like half the rides were closed, either for maintenance or possibly because they were understaffed, but the rides we did get to do were so much fun that we were...