Itinerary / City Planner - Advice needed as first-timers
Hey guys, we'll be travelling to Korea on February 6th - 23rd (2027) and would like to ask for some advice on our current planner and for some questions we have.
Unfortunately or fortunately we'll be arriving during Seollal, how impactful does this affect our experience? To the point where being in Korea may become unenjoyable? We plan on doing more of the cultural experiences like musuems, palaces, and Everland in the early days to maximise time where shops, restruants, and cafe's are closed. Apart from these musuems & palaces is there anything notable we could experience during Seollal or is it generally just locals going back to home to see family / travelling.
For our city planner have we planned it well in terms of city routes and the amount days we've allocated to each city (Jeju we'll be renting a car, will 3.5 days be enough by doing this)? Across these cities what was your most memorable & unmemorable experiences / activities you did?
As a big anime & manwha fan, in terms of shopping is it mainly centrered around Hongdae or are there additional areas I should go to look for merch?
For Spa Land Busan, if we didn't want to do the nudity sections is it still overall an enjoyable expereince that we should do?
For luggage delivery services as I believe we will ship our larger luggages from Seoul to Busan and Busan to Seoul is this simply a service organised with our selected hotels? Also for accomodation, we plan on booking with booking.com but is there any alternative recommendations that may be better? For Seoul we plan on staying in Myeongdong for its location, but for Busan, Gyeongju, and Jeju any recommendations on where to stay?
Any overall general tips that may help us as first timers? Or any regrets whether it be activities, shopping, experiences, etc that you did or didn't do?