This is one hotel stay you’ll never forget
Haha, our UK tour guide actually said that, she would try to remind her next tour group when coming here, since she nearly had to carry 2 big boxes (myself and a Dutch boy in our group) home.
I mean, it is funny how, coming from Australia (and Nederland) , we pay so much attention everyday on safety, yet, we missed the most obvious thing here. We just expect anything electrical would be double insulated and grounded. How spoilt are we?!
Since you asked, I would say that, more and more creature comforts would slowly be taken away from us during this trip. It is funny how we come back to wherever we came from. We flip the light switch, and lights just come on. How does that even happen? Like, where? Where did electricity come from? It's just there. And water? You turn on the tap, and it's there. Like, how did water even get into our homes? Just magic? and the water is clean? Like, did the water clean itself?
We are so spoilt here.
Were you brave enough to use the amenities (on the sink)?
I think you mean the bathtub? Not the glasses. The bottled water? Yes. You could tell if a bottled water has been opened (try opening a brand new 600ml Mt Franklins, then close it, then open it again, the bottle feels very different). So I would brush my teeth by putting bottled water straight into my mouth.
Also, depends on your stomach, you could drink boiled water from the tap. I used water kettles when I was in large cities, boil water from the tap, drink that, while hoarding bottled water from hotels for drinking during the day. Yes, there are kiosks in large cities (think 7-11), but most only accept local Korean Won currency, you have to have some on you, or you may have to pay them in Chinese dollar, that is if they actually take it, and it is just a general PITA. The UK tour guide said, most would drink bottled water, unless you are used to boiled tap water.