Hotel Lobby
Grand Hyatt Seoul
The Spa Grand Hyatt Seoul is offering Pre-Sun and Post-Sun summer programs until Aug. 31.
The Pre-Sun program is designed to condition your skin and body for a healthy, bronze tan, nourishing the skin to prepare it for summer outdoor activities. The Post-Sun version focuses on relieving and refreshing the skin and body after enjoying water sports or a summer excursion.
They are priced at 230,000 won for 90 minutes. For more information, call (02) 799-8808.
Grand InterContinental Seoul
The Grand InterContinental Seoul's bar and lounge, Blush, presents special snack buffet time during weekdays between 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
During ``Blush Time,'' 15 snacks are served in buffet style along with six carefully selected wines. Additional events are prepared daily, including free drinks for male guests every Tuesday.
The ``happy hour'' is priced at 20,000 won for women and 24,000 won men. For more information, call (02) 559-7619.
Grand Hilton Seoul
Shandong cuisine is offered at Grand Hilton Seoul's Chinese restaurant Yeohyang in June.
The chefs will serve a collection of regional specialties including seafood soup with shark's fin, sauteed pork belly and lobster fillet with vinegar and garlic sauce. Shandong food is known for its fast-cooking style that seals in the flavor and aroma of the ingredients.
Lunch is priced at 57,000 won and dinner 90,000 won, excluding tax and service charge. For more information, call (02) 2287-8787.
Park Hyatt Seoul
Steffen Gube, executive chef at Park Hyatt Dubai, will offer traditional European cuisine at Park Hyatt Seoul from June 12 to 21.
Gube, with years of experience at Michelin-starred hotels and restaurants in Germany and France, is highly acclaimed for truly authentic and tantalizing dishes with flair and creativity.
The events he will present include a la carte and set menus for lunch and dinner, a weekend brunch, a dessert table and a cooking class.
The price and schedule differs according to each event. For more information, call (02) 2016-1234 or (02) 2016-1220.
Millennium Seoul Hilton
Two guest chefs from the Beijing Hilton will offer the ``Wonders of the Great Wall'' in culinary form at the Millennium Seoul Hilton's Chinese restaurant in Taipan from June 18 to 25.
On the last night on June 25, they will host a special gala dinner that will include bird's nest soup with spinach in yellow melon, braised whole shark's fin with supreme sauce and sauteed Dalian abalone with X.O. sauce.
For more information, call (02) 317-3237.
Renaissance Seoul Hotel
The 4th Marriott Family Marathon Event was held on May 23 at the Renaissance Hotel in Seoul. About 250 guests and staff from the Renaissance Seoul hotel, JW Marriott Hotel Seoul, Ritz-Carlton Seoul Hotel, Marriott Executive Apartment (MEA) and soon-to-be-open Courtyard by Marriott ran the fiveand 10-kilometer courses along the Yangjae stream in Gaepo-dong, southern Seoul.
All the profits earned at this year’s event were donated to the ’Moo-Bup-Jeong-Sa’ orphanage.