MMS Log 11: Staying at GD's Pension

This post is so overdue.

So my VIP friends were ahem adamant on a 2D1N at GD's pension Dolce Vita after our summer school and I was "pulled" into it. I call it a pull because I was hesitant about the price, but I loved the retreat. I was ok with one night only but... It ended up being a 3D2N lol. It's a good choice though, coz it gave one day to explore near GD's pension. I understood why the place was so expensive after seeing all the facilities for our one room.
Booking should be done a month(?) before your stay to ensure a room.



After checking out of our school in the morning, we headed off to Dong Seoul Bus Terminal and took a bus up to Pocheon via Ildong Bus Terminal. When we arrived in the afternoon, we decided to eat first and then call the pension. Across the road was a BBQ place so we had beef there for lunch.

After that, we made a call to the pension and the employee came to pick us up. Because our room had a BBQ pit, she stopped us at a mart first and guided us to buy ingredients for our dinner. We were awed by the view on the way to the pension, looking at a lake and the water sports that was going on.

You can imagine my amazement when we saw the pension. "GD's got class,"I constantly said about that place. Because there was three of us, we had to book a bigger and more expensive room that would accommodate more than 2 people. GD's rooms are name after Big Bang's hits. We had the VIP room, which was three stories high. There was our personal pool and a jacuzzi, along with the BBQ pit. There was a kitchen and the huge TV on the second floor. All amenities are provided, but there was downsides to this awesome place.

Who in the world makes the bathroom door transparent? Why bother with a door then? Also the second floor didn't seem to have good ventilation since the aircon was practically useless. We had to turn on the aircon on the third floor and hope for the greenhouse effect to lift from the living room.

Red - VIP; Yellow - Heaven

1st Floor

2nd Floor - Living Room

2nd Floor - Kitchen

2nd Floor - Pool and Pit

2nd Floor - Bathroom

2nd Floor: Jacuzzi

3rd Floor - Bedroom

3rd floor toilet (no shower) 

Greenhouse outside our place

Jolie... the bitch tried to bite me

Gaho

We arranged a timing for the employee to set up the BBQ pit and we soon headed out to look at the surroundings. Where Dolce Vita is only has pensions and a community hall. There's not much to see actually.
After dinner, my friends had a swim while I settled some academic matters(boo). After a night of rest, we headed out to the cafe for breakfast. The cafe is on the second floor of GD's personal building. Basically, we ate next to his room "Crayon". They played his live concert on the house as we ate breakfast. We could prepare our own eggs and choose from the array of breads. The cafe also had cereal and sausages, along with a choice of juices and milk.

Cafe

Crayon

During breakfast, the staff asked what we were going to do and then arranged for a taxi to bring us there. We decided on the Herb Island since Dolce Vita really had nothing to do. The ride was about an hour, and we paid around KRW25,000. We arranged a timing for the driver to pick us up too. The village was supposed to have a European feel to the place. We actually estimated more time than we needed so we resorted to a massage. It was expensive, but I could use some refreshing before my new school term. Turns out the massage place was visited by Running Man too! We had to fill in some questionnaire which was painful because it was all in Korean. After overcoming the language barrier, they brought us to a room where we would change into robes.

the spa

Changing room

Toiletries and amenities and what-not

The verdict of the massage was that it was refreshing. Having had massages in Singapore before, I would say this one is definitely different and refreshing. The peppermint oil they used for the head massage woke us up and felt cooling. The massage is according to your questionaire so everyone's massages were different.

After that, we walked in some greenhouse and encountered the Santa village. It's creepy having Santas everywhere in the middle of summer.

Customizable candles 

We walked around and found a memory village, reliving Korea in the modernization period. There were sweets from my childhood that I bought for my friends. We also visited the souvenir shop and I bought the Herb Island tea that was naturally sweet and menthol. The shop had a variety of herbal products for body care and room scents. They also had sweet household items that you could buy for your house interiors. After a long day, we were just glad to go back to the pension.

Colored candles 

Body Care

Interior Decor

The next day, we had to check out. After breakfast and packing up, the employee drove us back to Ildong Terminal where we bought bus tickets back to Seoul.

I would say that the pension gave us pleasant memories. It's one thing to enjoy nature, it's another thing to enjoy modernity and nature at the same time. His pension didn't make me feel like the modernity was out of place, but more like I was living with Nature. I don't know if you get what I mean. Anyways, beside the HELLOVA price, I loved the place a lot... And I'm not even BB-biased.

For more details and booking: http://www.dolcebita.co.kr