I Joined a BTS Locations Tour

Sometimes I find myself curating "creative tours" that I may offer to fan girls like me whenever they travel to Japan or Korea. Nothing like the standard tourist locations line-up, I thought that it should be unique and interest-based like a Hallyu tour, a specific Korean drama tour, maybe a cute cafe and stationery hopping tour, etc. Then I saw that hindi na pala papahuli our travel booking sites.

While looking for more things to do to fill up my 20-day itinerary in Korea, I chanced upon a Seoul BTS Fan Day Tour. Since I have so much time for this trip, and would want days where I don't have to think too much and navigate, AND of course anything BTS we say YES... I booked this tour in a heartbeat!





BTS Tour Schedule:

8am - Meetup in Myeongdong Station Exit 2

9am - Iryeong Station - Shooting location for Spring Day

Dito palang feel ko sulit na the rate. It's not near Seoul (around an hour of travel time by private vehicle), and since it's an abandoned railway, it's also hard to take pictures here when you're alone.


I can hear the intro of Spring Day playing in my head while we were here.

10:20am - Hwarangdae Station and Gong-tral Park

When ordinary places turned into tourist spots because of Kim Namjoon. Namjooning in Hwarangdae Station and Gong-tral Park:

11:30am - Seoul Forest Park

Love Yourself shooting location, RM benches (donated by fans), and Jungkook's apartment.

1pm - Yoojung Sikdang

Restaurant where BTS constantly went to during their rookie years (near old Big Hit Building)





2pm - Big Hit Entertainment (Old Building)

Where it all started.

2:30pm - Laundry Pizza

Love Yourself: Her shooting location.





You have the option to stay here to eat! Worth it sya, the Potato Pizza is delicious!


Price and menu for your reference:

FAQs:

1) Tour operates every Wednesday and Sunday

2) Maximum number of participants is 43, it's also nice that they will push through even if you're alone!

3) We rode a mini-bus, but transpo depends on number of participants

4) Group is a fun mix of different nationalities, young and old, baby and long-time ARMYs!

5) Price of the tour is at Php 1700+ per head, food not inclusive, available via Klook.

If I Were To Offer This Tour:

Just for fun, here's my version of a BTS tour!

1) Shortest travel time from one place to another will take around 30 minutes, so I will maximize this with several BTS related activities like playing BTS songs while on the road, give BTS trivia to my guests like how the tour guides do it for other tours, play games ala Run! BTS, or maybe even play Spring Day before arriving to Iryeong Station since there's a TV naman in our van--just to hype my guests!

2) Make the tour really personal by asking my guests for their bias prior the trip, so I can handout photo cards or plastic IDs with a photo of their bias as souvenir.

3) It's nice that we had lunch in a BTS associated restaurant (Yoojung Sikdang or Laundry Pizza), but since tours usually end in souvenir shops... Why not drop by in either Myeongdong Underground or a Line Friends store?

4) Tour guides usually lift a stick with a flag or stuffed toy so the group will not get lost in a crowd. If I were to create my own BTS tour I will bring an ARMY Bomb as my tour guide flag!

5) My seatmate did her research of our tour and had photos saved in her phone so we can easily copy the poses of the boys per location that we're going to. But I think it would have been more interactive if as a tour guide I'll make sure to have an iPad or a big photo printout showing the places we're going to, and how they are related to the boys.

I can go on and on, haha! But I am limiting my lists to just 5 so you can share to me your wild ideas!
Will you also join this tour (or maybe my tour) if you're in Seoul? 😁