The Shilla Jeju: hotel guide

The Shilla Jeju opened on 1 July 1990 in the Jungmun Tourist Complex on Jeju's south coast. Its 429 rooms sit around a large garden, and the resort is built for staying in: an Adult Pool for guests aged 19 and over, a heated Family Pool that links the indoor and outdoor pools, an indoor pool, kids' facilities, a spa, a glamping village and a year-round activity programme.

Families tend to value the Family Pool and Kids’ Island; couples like the Adult Pool and moonlight swimming, since the outdoor pools stay open until 11 p.m. Jungmun Saekdal Beach, Cheonjeyeon Falls and Yeomiji Botanical Garden are all in the Jungmun area.

This guide uses only the hotel's official information on rooms, dining, pools, kids’ facilities and transport. Hours and prices change, so check the official website again before you book.

• Adult Pool and Family Pool: the outdoor pools are split into an Adult Pool for hotel guests aged 19 and over and a heated Family Pool connected to the indoor pool. Both are open daily 09:00–23:00, so night swimming is part of the stay.
• Kids’ facilities: Kids’ Island, a Gymboree Kids’ Club, a G.X. Room and the Play Zone on the first floor, plus the Kids’ Cabin outdoors in Soombi Garden.
• Dining: Hinode (Japanese), The Parkview (all-day dining and buffets), Badang (lobby lounge), Ollae (bar), the Poolside Bar and the Pastry Boutique bakery.
• G.A.O. activities: the hotel’s leisure specialists (G.A.O.) run seasonal activities all year.
• Glamping Village: in the outdoor garden next to Soombi Garden.

Deluxe rooms (floors 5–8) come as double, twin, family twin (a double plus a single) and Korean-style ondol rooms, for two guests as standard. Rates vary by date; check the official website or Agoda for your dates.

• The Parkview (3rd floor, all-day dining): open daily 07:30–22:00. Breakfast buffet 07:30–10:30 and lunch buffet 12:00–14:30, KRW 80,000 per adult and KRW 40,000 per child; dinner buffet 18:00–21:30, KRW 150,000 per adult Monday to Friday and KRW 170,000 on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, 24 and 31 December (KRW 75,000 per child). Children’s prices apply from 37 months to 12 years.
• Hinode (3rd floor, Japanese): dinner daily 17:30–22:00 (last order 21:00), with a main hall, a teppanyaki counter, a sushi counter and two private rooms.
• Badang (lobby lounge), Ollae (bar) and the Pastry Boutique bakery on the 6th (lobby) floor, and the Poolside Bar outdoors.

Prices are from the official website and can change. Restaurant bookings open on the 1st of the month, three months before your visit.

• Adult Pool (outdoor): daily 09:00–23:00, hotel guests aged 19 and over only. There are no lockers at the pool; check in at the first-floor desk and use the indoor pool lockers. On check-out day you can swim until 15:00 (arrive by 13:00).
• Family Pool (outdoor, heated): daily 09:00–23:00, hotel guests only. Children under 130 cm must wear a life jacket (free to borrow) and be accompanied by a guardian.
• Indoor Pool (1st floor): daily 07:00–23:00, hotel guests only.
• Sun loungers: outdoor loungers are booked by time slot (09:00–11:00, 11:30–14:00, 14:30–17:00, 17:30–20:00, 20:30–23:00) through a QR code in the guidebook you receive at check-in, once per day. Indoor lounge chairs are first come, first served.
• Cabanas: Deluxe, Petit and Family Cabanas and Daybeds. The Deluxe Cabana at the Adult Pool (19+) costs KRW 120,000 for 09:00–13:00, KRW 150,000 for 13:30–17:30 and KRW 200,000 for 18:00–22:00, with food and drinks included. Daybeds (19+) are KRW 22,000 for two hours, walk-in only on the day.
• Spa: Clé de Peau Beauté Spa on the first floor (daily 09:00–22:00, eight treatment rooms), plus a sauna.

• Kids’ Island (1st floor): daily 09:00–19:00, free, for children aged 12 and under; under-7s must be with a guardian.
• Gymboree Kids’ Club (1st floor): daily 09:00–19:00, for children aged 5 and under with a guardian.
• Kids’ Cabin (Soombi Garden, outdoors): daily 10:00–17:00, ages 37 months to 12 years, for programme participants only.

• Taxi: about 40 minutes, according to the hotel.
• Airport limousine bus 601: board at Arrivals Gate 5; runs 06:00–21:00 about every 50 minutes and takes about 70–90 minutes. Back to the airport, it leaves from the hotel’s 6th-floor main entrance, 07:30–22:30.
• Airport limousine bus 600: stops at the Shilla Hotel Entrance and Suites Hotel Entrance stops, about every 50 minutes; the hotel’s main entrance is about a 3-minute walk away.
• Rental car: there is a rental-car desk in the 6th-floor arcade.

• Jungmun Saekdal Beach: the main beach of the Jungmun Tourist Complex.
• Cheonjeyeon Falls: a three-tier waterfall with the Seonimgyo Bridge.
• Yeomiji Botanical Garden: a large greenhouse garden inside the Jungmun complex.
• Jungmun Daepo Jusangjeolli: hexagonal basalt columns along the shore.
• Oedolgae: a sea stack off the Seogwipo coast.

• The Adult Pool is for guests aged 19 and over; with children, use the Family Pool.
• Sun loungers are booked by time slot: scan the QR code in your guidebook as soon as you check in.
• On check-out day the pools are open to you until 15:00; arrive by 13:00 to make the most of it.
• Compare a rate with breakfast against The Parkview breakfast buffet (KRW 80,000 per adult).
• Room packages change by season; see “Packages” on the official website.