JW Marriott Jeju Staycation - Shinhan Marriott Bonvoy Card Hotel Breakfast 50,000 Won Discount (Breakfast Task) Menu Recommendations. From lunch at Island Kitchen to the dinner buffet. (2)

Hello.

I am Dr. Baek, a dentist who dreams of becoming an implant master and a gourmet.

I’d like to continue sharing my review of the JW Marriott Jeju staycation I took in November 2024.

The post was planned as two parts because it was long: Part 1 for the hotel itself, and Part 2 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (the breakfast task). This is Part 2.

This post will be especially useful for those who have the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card!

I can also answer most questions related to it-!

JW Marriott Island Kitchen

In my previous post, I worked hard to explain that the combination of the “JW Marriott Jeju Hotel” and the “Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card” works really well together.

In my opinion, among the 5-star hotels in Jeju, this one ranks at the top for people who want to enjoy a quiet staycation with just their own family in a place that is fairly modern and not crowded.

This time, I’m writing about using the domestic hotel breakfast 50,000 won service voucher included with the “Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card.”

Free Night Award and Breakfast Task

If you get the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card linked above, you receive two coupons per year.

These are one free night award and two domestic hotel breakfast discount vouchers worth 50,000 won each, and using them well is not exactly easy. (Especially in Seoul.)

The free night award lets you book a hotel stay on the Marriott Bonvoy platform for free if the room costs 35,000 points or less per night. If a one-night stay costs 50,000 points or less, you can also use points to cover anything above 35,000 won and make the reservation.

It can also be used overseas, but because it can be a headache, it seems to be used most often at JW Marriott Jeju.

(The usage period depends on when the free night award is issued.)

The breakfast task voucher consists of two “domestic” hotel “breakfast” discount vouchers worth 50,000 won each. You can’t use two at once, and you can’t use two in one day. You must visit twice, without exception. However, at JW Marriott Jeju, even though it is clearly a breakfast discount voucher, you can also use it for lunch and dinner.

(The usage period is January 1 to December 31. So if you use it right after receiving the card, it’s effectively like getting to use two more vouchers.)

Island Kitchen

So naturally, you end up going to JW Marriott Jeju using the free night award, (I usually do 1 night with the free night award + 1 night with points, for a 2-night, 3-day stay) and while you’re there, you can also take care of both breakfast task uses...

That’s why the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card and JW Marriott Jeju work so well together.

(However, the scope of the service can always change.)

In this post, I’ll share my experience enjoying breakfast, lunch, and dinner at Island Kitchen~!

There are four breakfast menu options, and I recommend all four!

Island Kitchen - Breakfast

Since we stayed for 2 nights and 3 days, we could have breakfast twice.

Because I have Marriott Bonvoy Platinum status, I can receive free breakfast for two people.

So the free breakfast we received was... truly excellent in quality.

As a result, we barely ate anything outside the hotel during the entire 2 nights and 3 days........

If you visit in the morning, you can enjoy a wonderful breakfast with the morning sunlight at the 5-star JW Marriott Jeju, which has beautiful Jeju-style interiors.

When you think about breakfast prices, if you go to JW Marriott even once a year, I think it’s worth getting the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card and achieving Platinum status. (The financial value alone, including lodging, is well over 1 million won.)

This is the breakfast menu at JW Marriott Jeju Island Kitchen.

Among the two items in the middle under ISLAND KITCHEN'S BREAKFAST, you get to choose two for free, and each one is 72,000 won per person.

If a couple travels and eats breakfast twice over 2 nights and 3 days, that alone saves 288,000 won on food........ (That’s a huge card.)

The menu is also substantial. It gives you bread, coffee... and even something for a hangover.

Thinking about it again, it was really a luxurious trip. Haha. A tip: paying with points for meals is very disadvantageous. No!

This is the bread basket and salad provided.

If you look closely, they also give you fresh orange and grapefruit juice.

(Usually, fresh juice at a 5-star hotel costs around 20,000 won.)

Just this already has such quality.....

It tastes great too. Those breads definitely taste like they were made with French butter and flour.

It’s the kind of bread I like most.... Even just this would already make me grateful..

Clear soup with black pork gukbap (72,000 won)

This is a black pork gukbap in the style of Okgdongsik in Hapjeong.

Honestly, saying it’s as good as Okgdongsik would be an exaggeration, but it is definitely delicious.

They even make pork gukbap deliciously at a 5-star hotel....

The mackerel is also delicious. What is this!!! It’s too perfect!!!

It’s great for relieving a hangover.

Jeju Bansang (72,000 won)

This is the most basic set meal style, served with today’s rice pot, soup, and side dishes.

It’s a good choice for anyone who has trouble deciding.

It tastes good enough that you won’t feel shortchanged compared to many restaurants outside.

That stew looks really tasty...

They even give you a cup of coffee and a final pudding.

Honestly, once you finish everything, you’re so full........ it affects lunch.

Marriott Platinum status is just so moving every time you receive these benefits.

(I guess that’s because the quality of Korean hotel dining is so good.)

Island Kitchen - Breakfast 2

No matter how sleepy or lazy you are, you can’t miss such an excellent breakfast.

Honestly, because the hotel is located a little off the beaten path, it naturally becomes a place where you enjoy a staycation.

If you look at the breakfast we were given the next day, you can see there was a slight change in the salad.

The granola and excellent bakery items were still there. (They’re really delicious.)

JW Egg Royal (72,000 won)

Free-range scrambled eggs, today’s steak, lobster

From the morning, you can eat free-range eggs, steak, and lobster......

As you’ll know if you visit, the lobster is thick, delicious, and of great quality.

This is truly the ultimate hotel for eating to your heart’s content.

I thought both the steak and lobster were of high quality.

If you look below, the origin is Australia/the United States. I actually prefer Australian/American beef to Korean beef, so that suited me better.

You may not get the sense of it from the photo, but the bread is re~~~ally big!!!

Just looking at it makes me want to eat it again; it’s such an appealing bakery item. Whew... that jam was good too..

Bean sprout and large short rib soup (72,000 won)

This was the large short rib soup my companion ordered. I only tried the broth, but as expected, it was tasty and did not disappoint.

Starting the morning with a full course that includes short rib soup... again, it affects lunch. Haha.

I have a small appetite, but I want to emphasize once again that the portion and quality are enough to satisfy even a healthy adult man.

Today’s ending: half a kiwi.

The fact that the salad and fruit change every day is also a thoughtful touch.

Of course?! We also had an iced latte that day...

Island Kitchen - Lunch

The breakfast items shown above were free breakfasts provided as a Platinum benefit from the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card.

To use the two domestic hotel breakfast discount vouchers worth 50,000 won each, we split our meals between lunch and dinner once each.

Unusually, JW Marriott Jeju has the huge advantage of allowing the 50,000 won discount voucher to be used for lunch and dinner as well.!!

(Of course, if you want, you can use it for breakfast too!!!)

This is the menu at JW Marriott Jeju Island Kitchen.

The menu applies to lunch and dinner.

We went there for lunch after checking out on the last day of our 2-night, 3-day stay.

Since we wanted something relatively simple, we chose burgers.

We ordered the Hot Chicken Burger (28,000 won) and the Marriott Burger (32,000 won).

The total came to 60,000 won, but since we got a 50,000 won discount,

that means we enjoyed two gourmet burgers for 10,000 won ?! (Half off Burger King..)

And if you pay with the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card, you earn 5 points per 1,000 won spent.. (a 6–7% earn rate)

The burgers are served with a mountain of delicious French fries.

Usually, fries at a 5-star hotel are extremely good... and these fries were also excellent!

Marriott Burger (32,000 won) and Hot Chicken Burger (28,000 won)

The Marriott Burger looked the fanciest, so I ordered it once, and the Hot Chicken Burger was something I just wanted to try...

For a 5-star hotel, the price of these gourmet burgers is relatively low (they usually cost 40,000 to 50,000 won), and in my personal opinion, the size is a little small and they do feel a bit plain.

If you look closely at the Marriott Burger, it has everything: a handmade beef patty, bacon, cheese, pickles, lettuce, and more.

The taste is, of course, excellent!!! It’s that familiar delicious gourmet burger taste we all know. Hahaha.

I wouldn’t pay 32,000 won for it, but with the breakfast task voucher, it’s definitely worth trying at least once.

The Hot Chicken Burger is notable for looking a little plain.

Personally, I thought the Hot Chicken Burger tasted a bit bland.

A beef-based gourmet burger would probably be better.

Island Kitchen - Dinner Buffet

After sunset, returning to Island Kitchen made it an even more elegant space.

I think this photo was taken after everyone had left. Haha.

It was almost full. This huge space...

The table we were assigned was set up like the one on the left.

To start with JW Marriott Jeju Island Kitchen’s dinner buffet, I’ll just say it’s highly recommended.

It’s 120,000 won per person, and the quality is really good. Especially if you like high-quality meat/seafood/shabu-shabu, you should absolutely try it.

(Who wouldn’t like that?!)

But the shocking part is that guests staying at the hotel get a discount to 100,000 won per person. Crazy....

On top of that, the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card breakfast voucher gives you a 50,000 won discount, right? Then it becomes 150,000 won for two people.

240,000 won for two people -> 150,000 won for two people.....

During our 2-night, 3-day stay, we had breakfast worth 288,000 won for free, lunch worth 60,000 won for 10,000 won, and the two-person dinner buffet was 150,000 won. This alone gives you a reason to get that card...

(And it also gave us the free night award!!!!!!!!!!)

I’ve rambled on long enough.

At JW Marriott Jeju’s dinner buffet, Island Kitchen, the main dishes are served in the space shown above.

And if you go outside, there’s another separate space (!?) with drinks, bakery desserts, and more.

You can see what’s there from the photos, so I’ll introduce it quickly.

In principle, every table is provided with unlimited-refill shabu-shabu, and what you see above is the shabu-shabu corner.

Vegetables, beef, and more... fresh ingredients are being supplied without limit.. (I’ll show you later)

In the refrigerator, I can see smoked salmon, seafood dishes like ceviche, and vegetables such as tomatoes.

The meat corner has a smaller variety, but the quality is excellent.

Lamb leg and chicken.

There’s also steak and grilled pork ribs.

Different kinds of meat are provided by type.

They even had soy-marinated crab. King crab is also offered as unlimited refill, and the meat is incredibly thick and substantial. (I’ll show you later)

They have just what they need, but the quality is good.

It said beolgyo pitchaekmuk, and it was huge. A key feature of Island Kitchen is that the ingredients are generous and good.

If you want shrimp and abalone, you can eat until you burst........ wow...

You can have as much lobster and scallop, etc. as you want, and if you ask, they’ll grill it for you.

Then they keep bringing it to your table......

I said it was 150,000 won for two people, right????? These days, 5-star hotel dinner buffets in Seoul have entered the era of 200,000 won per person.

But the seafood buffet at a Jeju hotel is fresher, bigger, and tastier than in Seoul.

The sushi didn’t have super luxurious fish.

Still, it was popular because it was easy for anyone to enjoy, including kids.

How can sashimi be this fresh?

At a glance, it’s a lineup of flatfish, red seabream, and salmon... and the sashimi was also extremely popular.

If you want, you can also enjoy cooked dishes.

Pork kimchi stew and herbal braised beef short ribs... the chefs at JW Marriott Jeju really seem to cook very well in many respects.

It tasted good.

There was also pad thai and a similar seafood stir-fry.

You might think there aren’t many items, but each one is so tasty that you won’t be able to try everything. Haha.

So what we ordered was..

This abundant spread!!!!

We ate everything and then ate more. Haha.

With meat, sashimi, grilled lobster and abalone... and even insanely high-quality shabu-shabu, this place is heaven.

I didn’t pile it up too much, but even eating this was hard ㅠㅠㅋㅋ

Since they keep bringing more grilled lobster and abalone when you ask, you can keep eating those with scallops until you burst.

But it really tasted great..!!!! Personally, I think it’s a better buffet than Lotte Hotel La Seine or Josun Hotel Aria.

(How much did I say for two people? If you forgot, scroll up~)

The shabu-shabu also wasn’t just made to fill you up.

The quality is really good..... so moving.

After eating everything like this, they’ll bring you more shrimp, lobster, and scallops...

If you come to JW Marriott Jeju and don’t eat the dinner buffet, you’re foolish!!! Remember that!!!

Proof that the king crab meat was substantial!!!!

Just eating these guys is enough to make you happy and satisfied.

At this point, I’m wondering if I should receive meal vouchers as a JW Marriott Jeju ambassador...

Even someone like me with a small appetite ate like this and then kept eating more. Haha.

Oh, right! You can also have beer at no additional charge...

My wife and I were so excited and ate so much!! hahaha

If you want, you can order alcoholic drinks like this for an additional charge.

I didn’t drink because I don’t like alcohol... but there were more varieties of drinks than expected at reasonable prices, so it might be worth trying.

If you came to my post and like alcohol, it might be good to keep these in mind beforehand.

It didn’t seem like a very common kind of alcohol.

It seems like something you can only enjoy when you come to Jeju, so instead of going far away, why not try it at JW Marriott Jeju Island Kitchen? Haha. If something is delicious, you can always buy more to take home!

The dessert corner that I discovered only after finishing my meal....

The dessert corner is far better than expected.

The meal before was delicious, and the desserts are also much more substantial than I expected.

It was near closing time, so there wasn’t much left, but just by looking at it, you can tell there must have been lots of tasty items, from rice cakes to bakery goods~

Among them, what especially caught my eye were these bakery items, which looked beautiful just by looking at them!!

They’re really better than the buffet at 5-star hotels in Seoul.

Each dessert is so visually pretty!! If you look on the right, that black forest cake is made to look like an apple.....

Tarts, choux pastries, all of them are precious desserts..

I was too full to properly enjoy dessert,

but if you’re someone planning to visit after reading this post, please make sure to eat lots of dessert there.............

If you went to a café for these, they’d cost over 10,000 won each....

The mandarin cake is reproduced to look exactly like an orange tangerine, and the mango shortcake and Shine Muscat tart are also very high quality.

We were so full that we collapsed after eating this much.

The desserts really are extremely high quality.

It was a bit overwhelming to scroll through, but I was happy the whole time I was writing...

There were so many photos that this was the post I kept putting off... haha.

I worked hard to split the JW Marriott Jeju staycation into two parts.

To sum it up... the Marriott Bonvoy The Best Shinhan Card and JW Marriott Jeju are a very good match.

Before you go, it would be good to know how to combine the Shinhan Card with a JW Marriott Jeju staycation like this.

I wrote this to share my personal experience because I thought it might be helpful.

As those who have followed my blog know, I really love staycations in Busan and Jeju.

Among them, Parnas Jeju left a strong impression... with an outdoor pool so large and beautiful that I thought it might be number one in Korea. I hope JW Marriott Jeju also becomes established as another famous staycation destination.

I’d like to keep the good things to myself... but if we want great hotel infrastructure to keep developing, shouldn’t we spread the word and let more people enjoy it?

Be a smart consumer, and make the most enjoyable time possible within your budget and schedule.

I hope I can be a small guide for you ^^

That’s all from the daily life of Dr. Baek, a dentist!!