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 Taiwan travel tales
Our customers share their travelling experiences in Taiwan.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
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| A Fort |
29 January 2004 |
Stayed at Imperial Hotel Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taiwanese are very friendly and helpful. National Palace Museum was great. Lots of lively activity at temples. Taroko Gorge worth the time, in part to get out of Taipei.
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| O Stiegler |
24 January 2004 |
Stayed at Rebar Crowne Plaza Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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The 101 (highest building of the world) is almost already. Nobody can go inside. No lightning is showing this big bang. The shopping centers around the 101 are expensive. The staff in shops are most unfriendly. The most of the goods are only plastic. And the nightmarkets are boring.
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| J Tan |
15 January 2004 |
Stayed at Cosmos Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Go to Chiufen which is a town situated on a mountain. The view is fantastic and the village life is beautiful and charming. Also, go to Yeliou which is along the northern coast. The rocks and ocean scenery is breathtaking.
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| F Fichera |
18 December 2003 |
Stayed at Landis Taipei, The - Taipei, Taiwan.
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I suggest to go to the place where there is the new Skyscraper "TAIPEI 101", it's a nice place for shopping!
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| N Cheng |
02 December 2003 |
Stayed at Imperial Hotel Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taipei is a great city except that it can be difficult to get around when you don't speak or write Mandarin. I would advise that travellers get the destinations written down in Chinese first so as not to waste time. For Moslem travellers, there are many choices of food palaces to choose from. Be prepared to do some reseach on where to dine for Moslem food before you visit.
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| J Rennick |
20 November 2003 |
Stayed at Grand Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Hotel shuttle to the MRT station was very convenient, running every 20 minutes. The MRT subway system is very easy to use, fast, and inexpensive. Taxis are also convenient and modest in price. We particularly enjoyed the National Palace Museum and the Lung Shan Temple, both in Taipei. Almost everyone spoke some English, and signs are all in English and Chinese, so communication was not difficult.
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| W Thorpe |
20 October 2003 |
Stayed at Landis Taipei, The - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Watch out when you arrive in Shenzen via the railway station. There was three of us with luggage & we were just swarmed by people offering us taxis for 100RMB ( it was only 13 RMB when we eventually took a legit taxi) & people insisting on carrying our bags. They would just not take no for an answer. We could not find the taxi line so they harrassed us for about 20 minutes as we maneuvered around. We felt like rabbits being chased down by a pack of dogs. Really a traumatic experience but I am told that if we had reached into our pockets & offered them some money we would have been really swarmed by many others...
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| T Tagami |
29 September 2003 |
Stayed at Fortuna Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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I visited Taipei to see my old friend after 21 years, so did not visit so many places this time, but Mt. Youmei was a nice area to hike where you can take a deep breath to refresh. I did not know there was such a calm and clean area in Taipei. I'd recommend to take a walk in the park, and you can enjoy the birds talking, small animals and fresh greenery.
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| M Flannery |
17 September 2003 |
Stayed at Landis Taichung Hotel, The - Taichung, Taiwan.
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Taichung, like all Taiwanese cities other than Taipei and Kaoshiung, is difficult to navigate if you can't read Chinese signs. All road signs are in Chinese characters only (which is fair enough, you don't see any Chinese signs in US or UK cities..but you need to be aware of this, or be prepared to get lost). Make sure you take a card from hotel with you, with hotel name and address in Chinese, so that, when you do lose your way (as you will) you can get a cab to take you back!
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| M Ellis |
14 September 2003 |
Stayed at Landis Taipei, The - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Chang Kai Shek Terminal 1 is very run down and were comparable to some of the more unpleasant airports I've gone through. It is also considered not as safe as it could be by many pilots (q.v. Google newsgroup search). United Airlines fly out of the more modern (1989) Terminal 2.
However, despite the run down external appearance, processing was very efficient -we had our luggage and were on our way less than 15 minutes after leaving the plane.
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