Contact Admin. Di and I arrived early, of course, and we had to wait for about an hour before we could buy our ferry tickets. The ferry left at 1pm and takes three hours to Busan. The ferry is actually a hydrofoil and can reach fairly decent speeds.
The ferry terminal soon filled up with people and Di and I were amazed to see the passengers buying tickets and placing their bags in line to be first through immigration.
These people then wandered off, yet when the immigration doors opened Di and I just stood up and walked past the bags into immigration. When we arrived at the actual ferry boarding location, the ferry had not yet arrived from Korea, so we had to wait about twenty minutes. Once on the ferry, we found itself and the seating to be pretty good and was completely full of passengers by departure time. Just before the ferry departed all the staff from the Beetle ferry company lined the dock.
Then, as the ferry left the staff lining the dock, all bowed and then waved us bon voyage!! The seas were dead flat and like glass. The ferry actually seemed to be taking its time as it encountered no choppy water at all.
Busan is a city built on a mountain side surrounding a harbour. It is a large port and, on entry to the harbour, you sail under a large bridge — this bridge is actually the Gwangandaegyo Bridge and is number three on the Tripadvisor sights to see in Busan; if a bridge is number 3 must see, then tourist alarm bells were ringing as to what else there was to see!!!
