Four Seasons Seoul Executive Club Lounge: Breakfast, Afternoon Tea and Evening Cocktails (Is It Worth It?)

We covered the full hotel experience in our Four Seasons Seoul hotel review, but the Executive Club Lounge deserves its own dedicated post. We attended all three service windows during our stay: breakfast, afternoon tea, and evening cocktails. Here is everything we observed, tasted, and our honest take on whether the club room upgrade is worth it.

For context, we booked a Club King Room which came with lounge access. The lounge is located on the 28th floor and has floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic views of the city and Gyeongbokgung Palace.

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The Space

The lounge itself is genuinely beautiful. Airy, spacious, and the views are some of the best you can get in that part of Seoul. The seating is comfortable and spread out so it never felt crowded during our visit. It is a great spot to catch up on work, relax between sightseeing, or just enjoy the view with a drink.

A few small touches worth noting: the lounge provides hand wipes with service (a very Korean hospitality standard), diet and nutrition cards at the food stations, and a premium water selection. These details are easy to overlook but they add up to a genuinely polished experience.

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Breakfast at the Club Lounge

Breakfast is served every morning and includes a curated selection from the Market Kitchen buffet downstairs. Think of it as a smaller, quieter version of the main breakfast spread with table service in a more relaxed setting.

The selection covers the main highlights: pastries, eggs, some Korean options, fruit, and coffee. It is a solid breakfast, well presented, and the setting is nicer than the buffet floor.

However, here is our honest take: if you are booking through Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts (FHR), you already get complimentary breakfast for two at the main Market Kitchen buffet downstairs. That buffet is massive, covers Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Western options at a very high level, and has the made-to-order French toast that we still think about.

The lounge breakfast is good. The main buffet breakfast is better.

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Afternoon Tea

This was our favorite service of the three. The afternoon tea presentation at Four Seasons Seoul's lounge was genuinely impressive and better than what we experienced at Signiel.

What we had:

• Orange cream croissant: Very unique. We had never seen this combination before. The orange and cream filling was not overpowering and the croissant itself was well made.
• Matcha chocolate scone: Our clear favorite. Not too sweet, good bitterness from the matcha, and the chocolate pieces throughout were a nice touch. I went back for more of this one.
• Paris-Brest heart: Pretty presentation, good pastry quality.
• Green tea chocolate chip cone: Cute and well executed.
• Chickpea salad sandwich: Surprisingly good. Has a flavor profile similar to a tuna salad sandwich, which is a compliment.
• Lobster roll: Small but the lobster flavor was there. Has a slightly fishy note but it was clearly real lobster.
• Shine muscat grapes: These are a Korean specialty you have to try if you visit during the season. Sweet, crisp, fragrant. Better than what we have had at other lounge teas.

The pastry design quality here was noticeably higher than what we saw at other Four Seasons properties we had visited. Everything was plated carefully and tasted as good as it looked.

If you are visiting Seoul and want afternoon tea, this is a strong option.

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Evening Cocktails

The evening cocktail hour wraps up the day's service windows with drinks and light bites. The setting at this time of day is particularly nice because you can watch the sun set over the city with Gyeongbokgung Palace lit up below.

The cocktail and drink selection was well curated for a hotel lounge. Light snacks are available alongside the drinks. It is a civilized way to end a day of sightseeing.

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Club Lounge Pricing Summary

If you want to bring guests who are not staying in a club room, here are the per-person rates:

Other perks with club access:

• 10% discount on all spa and nail bar treatments
• Unlimited complimentary garment pressing (this one is genuinely useful)
• Express check-in at the lounge
• All-day access to the lounge for snacks and soft drinks between service windows

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Is the Club Lounge Worth It?

This is the honest version.

The lounge food is largely a curated subset of what you would get at the main Market Kitchen buffet downstairs. The breakfast overlap in particular is significant. If you have FHR benefits and are already getting complimentary breakfast at the main buffet, the club room upgrade adds the afternoon tea and evening cocktails service, plus the lounge access throughout the day.

Our recommendation:

If you are spending a full day at the hotel, working from the lounge, or want the afternoon tea experience specifically, the club access adds real value. The views alone make the space worth returning to between outings.

If your stay is mainly base camp for sightseeing and you are going to be out most of the day, we would skip the club room upgrade and put that money toward the Friday seafood night buffet at Market Kitchen instead. Book through FHR, get your complimentary breakfast at the main buffet, and enjoy the hotel without paying extra for access to a space you probably will not use much.

That said, the afternoon tea we had here was genuinely good and if afternoon tea is something you enjoy, it is worth experiencing at least once.

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And check out our complete hotel review and buffet posts as well:

👉 Four Seasons Seoul Full Hotel Review

👉 Four Seasons Seoul Seafood Night and Breakfast Buffet