Hotel Lobby
The Park Hyatt Busan’s Lumi Spa is presenting its fifth anniversary package until March 31.
The package includes a foot bath, a 40-minute facial treatment and a 50-minute body massage, using ginger body oil extracts. The package is available from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and costs 209,000 won from Monday through Thursday. Between Friday and Sundays, it costs 242,000 won, including tax.
Reservations are required and room guests can receive a 10-percent discount. For reservations and more information, call (051) 990-1400.
The Courtyard Marriott Seoul Namdaemun appointed Christopher Johns as a new general manager as of Jan. 1.
Originally from Australia, Johns worked for Marriott International for 20 years, including Brisbane Marriott Hotel, Sydney Harbour Marriot Hotel, JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes in the United States and JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa in Tuscon, Arizona.
Johns also worked for the Renaissance Seoul Hotel before joining the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel.
For the last three years, he was the hotel manager at the JW Marriott Hotel in Bangkok.
“I am happy to be joining Courtyard Marriott Seoul Namdaemun as general manager on the very first day of 2018, a great start to the year. I will leverage the strength of the Courtyard brand to provide the best hospitality to our domestic and international guests, further establishing our foothold in the Seoul market,” he said.
The Millennium Seoul Hilton appointed Lee Jong-hun as the hotel’s new general manager earlier this week.
As a homegrown hotelier, he previously worked for the Shilla Hotel and Resort, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Seoul, Banyan Tree Club and Spa, Stanford Hotel Korea and Best Western Premier Seoul Garden Hotel.
Before joining Hilton, he led Chaum Life Center, a center for anti-aging, beauty and health. As a native Korean, Lee is the first Korean general manager at the Millennium Seoul Hilton.
“With honesty, fairness, transparency, dialogue and communication as our core management principles, I will make our customers, employees and owners of the hotel work together to win,” he said.
Marriott Executive Apartments is presenting strawberry specials until Feb. 28 at its restaurant Park Chef.
The dishes to be served includes strawberry ade, burrata cheese and strawberry salad with avocado and mint with balsamic dressing with grilled Australian rib-eye steak, cold fresh strawberry soup with ricotta cheese and pistachios, strawberry ice cream cake and cup tiramisu with berries,
Dishes are served for lunch and dinner and each meal costs 67,000 won, including tax and service fee.
For more information, call (02) 2090-8050.
The Grand Hyatt Seoul’s buffet restaurant, the Terrace,
kicked off its “Taste of the Mediterranean” promotion which will last until Jan. 21.
The Terrace will present 65 dishes using fish, garlic, eggplant, olives, seeds, nuts, beans and local seasonal ingredients and a chef from the Hyatt Regency
Thessaloniki in Greece will lead the kitchen during the promotion.
The taste of the Mediterranean is available for both lunch and dinner and costs 73,000 won and 105,000 won, respectively. Tax is included. For more information and reservations, call (02) 799-8166.