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Chopstix
Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Location: Nowon Seoul
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:35 am Post subject: RIPPED OFF AT GRAND HYATT NEW YEARS PARTY!!!!!1 |
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so THE TICKETS WERE 50,000 TO get into the Grand Hyatt.
Tickets 50,000
drink line up 250 people
time for the one drink 45 mins
all you can drink -RIghT
time at the Grand Hyatt 20 minutes
definitely NOT priceless!!!!!! |
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shakuhachi

Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: Re: RIPPED OFF AT GRAND HYATT NEW YEARS PARTY!!!!!1 |
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| Chopstix wrote: |
so THE TICKETS WERE 50,000 TO get into the Grand Hyatt.
Tickets 50,000
drink line up 250 people
time for the one drink 45 mins
all you can drink -RIghT
time at the Grand Hyatt 20 minutes
definitely NOT priceless!!!!!! |
Thats absolutely disgraceful - especially from a hotel of that level. Did you get your money back? |
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itaewonguy

Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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well 02 pro coex wasnt much different!
they said unlimited free drinks.. but they were only giving away beer..
no problem getting served. but if you say free drinks!! then give free drinks.. if you only give away free beers.. then say FREE BEERS UNTIL 12!
70.000 a ticket.. no pre shows 1 hour coat check wait.. and bad service !
still great djs pete tong played cool music.. never really erupted...
the koreans I think just wouldnt of been able to keep up!
still we had a good night... the venue was way too big ! they thought 10.000 people! hahahahaha but I think 800-1000 were there.. |
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Mashimaro

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
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50,000 won?? what kind of drinks where they? I could drink all I wanted 5 days a week at my usual pub for that much. yes it's not the hyatt, but come on this is seoul, alcohol is cheap outside foreigner traps like itaewon.
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PolyChronic Time Girl

Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:23 am Post subject: |
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I went to Hyatt one time on a normal night a few months ago because one of my Korean co-workers wanted to take me there. This is how ridiculous that place is:
1) One mixed drink (15,000-20,000won)
2) Small plate of bananas, apples, grapes (60,000won)
3) Service tax (20%)
4) Alchohol tax (another 20%)
This place is a joke and should be shut down. Terrible dancing as well. I was really angry at my co-worker for bringing me there (but she's a richie so it didn't faze her)
***I can imagine the Hyatt on New Year's has got to be ten times worse!! |
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Bunnymonster

Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Location: Tokyo
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| Well I had fun, the bar was easy to get to (where were you queuing for the bar? In that main room with the DJs, with like a dozen bar staff, or at the baileys concession stand, as that queue looked mammoth), they had to restock a few times but there was free vodka even when the soft drinks had run out, the music was alright, bit loungey for my tastes but the Koreans liked it. The reaction to the PARTY PHONE was awesome........ I'll post some pics later but I'm on my way out now, but suffice it to say I had a much better time than the OP |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| PolyChronic Time Girl wrote: |
I went to Hyatt one time on a normal night a few months ago because one of my Korean co-workers wanted to take me there. This is how ridiculous that place is:
1) One mixed drink (15,000-20,000won)
2) Small plate of bananas, apples, grapes (60,000won)
3) Service tax (20%)
4) Alchohol tax (another 20%)
This place is a joke and should be shut down. Terrible dancing as well. I was really angry at my co-worker for bringing me there (but she's a richie so it didn't faze her)
***I can imagine the Hyatt on New Year's has got to be ten times worse!! |
That's JJ Mahoney's, isn't it? Place is a ripoff. On the plus side, many of the local girls dress like hookers.
Sparkles*_* |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
well 02 pro coex wasnt much different!
they said unlimited free drinks.. but they were only giving away beer...
70.000 a ticket.. no pre shows 1 hour coat check wait.. and bad service !
still we had a good night... the venue was way too big ! they thought 10.000 people! hahahahaha but I think 800-1000 were there.. |
Call me unreasonable, but that right there would drive me 'round the blankety-blank-blank bend. A SOLID HOUR?? I'm assuming you aren't exaggerating, IG, or if so, not by much. I've seen, and in some mercifully rare cases been in, situations like that. Ugh!!
The OP and Bunnymonster --- were they at the same party?
Personally, I'm familiar enough with the Grand Hyatt to know better than to spend New Year's stuffing their pockets with my cash. If I'm ever in "money-no-object" mode, I'll either be hosting the party myself or it'll be anywhere but the Hyatt.
But to each his/her own. The important thing is get out of hand with good friends, and then get back home with as few broken bones, missing teeth or bad memories as possible. That the OP wasn't able to do that at the Hyatt doesn't surprise me in the least, though. |
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JongnoGuru

Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
That's JJ Mahoney's, isn't it? Place is a ripoff. On the plus side, many of the local girls dress like hookers.
Sparkles*_* |
Sparkles, my man, we're talking about JJ MacBlowme's here -- what do you mean "like"? |
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J.B. Clamence

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
That's JJ Mahoney's, isn't it? Place is a ripoff. On the plus side, many of the local girls dress like hookers.
Sparkles*_* |
Sparkles, my man, we're talking about JJ MacBlowme's here -- what do you mean "like"? |
Yep, that place is known as a hangout for high-price hookers looking for guys on business trips. |
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fruitcake

Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Location: shinchon
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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2 budweisers = 26,000
only thing I liked was the ease of getting a taxi out of there |
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Bunnymonster

Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Location: Tokyo
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yobseyohh
HELLO
Fantastic Plastic Machine at work
Proof the drugs DO work, if you are this man well done finding any MDMA in Korea....
its 4am time to go home....... |
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TECO

Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
That's JJ Mahoney's, isn't it? Place is a ripoff. On the plus side, many of the local girls dress like hookers.
Sparkles*_* |
Mahoney's has been a hang-out for many upscale hookers in Seoul for a long time now.
After work, I'd walk over to the Lotte Hotel sometimes to have a beer in the pub and there were girls working there also. |
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