Taipei Shih Travel Forum

As i am not really good in road directions pls tell me how to get to these places after coming out of the mrt exits.

-Eslite bookshop (main store)
-Wu fen pu
-gongguan market
-ximending

and i heard there is a bookstreet at taipei main station? how to get there too?
do they sell wide variety comics there?

How hot is it exactly in Taipei in July? I'm going there on the 13th of July.. would it be say as hot as Singapore? Also, attire wise is shorts and slippers considered weird there??

I'll be going with my gf's for some shopping, so far I know Shilin, Raohe, Wufenpu, Taipei 101 area and Ximending, Taipei Main Station Underground mall, is there anywhere else we could check out? :)

THANKS! :)

Hi

Im planning a trip to taipei for 4D 3N. I would like to know when is the summer sales so tat i could book my air ticket. Mainly going their for shopping. Can some1 recommend me some shoppong spots? Also what kind of snacks should i buy back for my colleagues. Is there any food court @ xi men ting as im having difficulties reading chinese. Can help me out with my itinerary.

Thanks
Glitterbling

Hi all,

First holiday in Taipei next weekend (4D/3N), and need advice on following:

1. Staying at Les Suites (Ching-Cheng) : good location?
2. What's the most efficient way to get from Airport to Les Suites
3. Should we spend 1 night in hotsprings, or make it a day-trip?
4. Any nice golf course nearby, and how much for a round of 18-hole?
5. Any must-eat/must-do? Nothing too "foreigner-friendly", as I would prefer something really local, "hole in the wall" type of joint, etc


Thanks!!

We will be travelling back from Canada wih China Airlines next January. We'll arrive in TPE at 5am and the flight doesnt leave until 945Pm. We are a family of 6 with children aged 3, 6, 7 and 14. Any ideas what we can do to pass the day? W love to shop and experience different foods etc. Also, how do we get around, tranposrt wise and what is the cost of buses, taxis, food to feed a family etc??? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

hi there.. i would like to go wu fen pu. Kindly advise what cheap hotels are there? and other then wu fen pu.. are there other wholesale clothing stores??
i will be going there in august.

pls email me at ellen_sha@yahoo.com

Thank you

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me when is the best time to go Taipei for holiday? And where can i find more info on Taipei.

Thanks.

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me when is the best time to go Taipei for holiday? And where can i find more info on Taipei.

Thanks.

After Taipei and Kaohsiung, plan to stay 2 nights in Tainan, is it worth to tour around Tainan. Anyone can help me to recommend good 3* hotel to stay and places of interest worth to go in Tainan?

Hello everyone!

I'll be visiting Taiwan with my family (dad, sis & boyfriend) sometime late June (Wed to Sun). We'll arrive Taipei at abt 2pm & will be staying in Royal Castle Hotel.

I'm trying to squeeze as many places of interest as possible within our short stay in Taiwan, namely:

Day 1:
(1) Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall
(2) CKS Memorial Hall
(3) 101
(4) Wufenpu
(5) Raohe NM

Day 2:
(4) LongShan Temple
(5) Beitou Hotspring or Wulai Hotspring
(6) Danshui / Fisherman's Wharf
(7) Shilin NM
**Personally, I would prefer Wulai Hotspring, but because the Xindian MRT (to Wulai) is at the opposite end of Xin Beitou MRT (to Beitou), I'm not sure if I should just stick to Beitou, so that I can also visit Danshui & Shilin NM along the way.. If I opt for Wulai hotspring, is there any sight-seeing place coz I doubt my dad would want to join us for the hotspring spa**

Day 3:
(1) Yehliu
(2) Jiguashih
(3) Jiufen
(4) Shifen
(5) Keelung Miaokou (temple + NM)
**Will engage a taxi driver (Mr. Meeky Yang is highly recommended?) to bring us, will this take us a whole day? Or can we squeeze 1 or 2 other places of interest back in Taipei? Any recommendation if this is possible?**

Day 4:
(1) Train fr. Taipei to Hualien
(2) Taroko Gorge
** Will engage a taxi driver upon reaching Hualien (a Mr. Chen is highly recommended?) Unfortunately I forgot to take down his no., if anyone has it, please let me know. Also, will this take us a whole day? Where else is worth visiting besides Taroko Gorge?**

Day 5:
(1) Ximengding before heading to airport for flight back to SG.
**Our flight back is at abt 6pm, so we'll have 1/2 day to wander around, any nice places to recommend?

Notes:
**I'm also thinking of a visit to Yangmingshan, can I squeeze this in any of the days? Do I need a guide to bring us or it's fine to be on our own?

** I'm fine with dropping visits to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall & CKS Memorial Hall.. I've them in my itinerary for my dad, but I'm not sure if he'll enjoy the visits to the halls afterall.. Hee.

**If I were to drop the memorial halls, are there any places that we should consider going? Basically my dad is in love with the Taiwan programmes introducing all the Taiwan snacks (xiao chi), so if anyone can recommend nice places to "pig out", that'll be very much appreciated.

Let me know your thoughts on the above, all comments are welcome. Thanks in advance to all helpful forummers.

Cheers!

Hi

Cont
DAY 3 (MON)

LEO FOO VILLAGE (a few CHOICES)
1) 6.30PM WAKE UP BREAKFAST (which one is the better way of going Leofoo from rainbow hotel)
2) 8.00AM TAKE MRT TO NANJING E RD THEN TRANSFER BUS 279 TO LEOFOO (TICKET NT500 OR NT890)or 8.00AM TAKE MRT TO ZHONGSHAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SONGSHAN AIRPORT) BUY TICKET BUS + PACKAGE – CHEAPER OR AT SONGSHAN AIRPORT VIA TAILIAN KEQUN (NT120)
3) 2.00PM LEAVE LEOFOO
4) 2.30PM TAKE MRT TO DANSHUI (TICKET BOOTH CLOSE AT 9.30PM)
• REACH LAOJIE (CHEAP BAGS)
• DANSHUI OLD STREET (Ride MRT (Red line) to Danshui station ,walk to the night market near the ocean and a street just few minutes.)
• 5PM LEAVE FOR YURENMATOU VIA BUS CALLED RED26 OR 836 (BUS STOP NEAR DANSHUI MRT) OR TAKE FERRY
• SEE SUNSET
5) 7.30PM TAKE BOAT BACK TO DANSHUI
6) 8.00PM TAKE MRT TO TAIPEI MAIN STATION
SHOES NIGHT MARKET (UNDERGROUND MALL)(actually where is the exact place)
• Taiwan StoryLand – (Exit5) then exit via the ShinKong Mitsukoshi Dept Store exit cos the K-mall is just beside you. You have to take a lift to the story land level.
Entrance NT200 if you show S’pore student pass. It will comprises of NT100 worth of coupon for you to shop and eat in there (11am – 11.30pm)


DAY 4 (TUE)

DETAIL OF TAXI DRIVER –
MEEKY YANG
CAB NO:589-NT
+886-921-915586
09-2191-5586
NT3000

1) 7.00PM WAKE UP BREAKFAST (any idea that meeky will bring us where)
2) 8.30AM TAXI TOUR
• JIUFEN
• YELIU
• KEELUNG
• MIAOKOU NIGHT MARKET
2) 8.30PM LEAVE AND GO GUTTING MRT (which mrt nearer)
Or ride MRT (Green line) to Taipower building station ,walk to Shida night market just few minutes.
• SHIDA NIGHT MARKET

DAY 5 (WED)

1) 7.00PM WAKE UP BREAKFAST
2) 8.00AM LONGSHANSHI TEMPLE (PRAYING)
3) 9.30AM TAKE MRT TO ZHONGXIAO DUNHUA(OPTION)(we have time then go, no go also never mind)
• ESLITE BOOKSTORE
• DINGHAO SHOPPING AREA
• SOGO DEPT STORE
• MING YAO DEPT STORE
2) 1PM TAKE MRT TO TAIPEI CITY HALL
• TAIPEI 101 BUILDING (TICKET NT350) TAKE SHUTTLE 101 TO REACH
• WARNER VILLAGE CINEMA CENTER
• SHIN-KONG MITSUKOIISHI DEPT STORE
• NEW YORK NEW YORK
3) 5PM TAKE MRT TO HOUSHANPI
• WUFENPU (5MIN WALK ALONG YONGJI STREET TO THE CORNER OF ZHONGPO NORTH RD) Mostly clothes etc no food
• RAOHE NIGHT MARKET (CROSS THE BRIDGE AT SONG SHAN STATION TO RAOHE) (Houshanpi MRT stop or Songshan Railway Station)

DAY 5 (THUR)

1) 7.30PM WAKE UP BREAKFAST
2) 10AM BACK TO XIMENDING SHOPPING
3) 3PM CHECK OUT
4) 6.30PM PLANE
5) 11PM REACH S’PORE

Thanks, please assist to check. whether the mrt, bus, direction is correct or not. will it be very rush, then if I want to go car restaurant (HsinPut mrt) (Liu Xing Hua Yuan drama show. Want to put which day is better. Can I put it before Danshui. If put we will leave leofoo earlier. where is the exact place.

Hi

Please assist me..

TAIPEI TRIP ON 21 JUNE 08 TO 26 JUNE 08 (1.30pm flight from s'pore)

DAY 1 (SAT)
6.00PM REACH RAINBOW HOTEL
7.00PM TAKE MRT TO HSINPUT STATION (EXIT 1)
• TOILETBOWL RESTAURANT
• HUAXI STREET NIGHT MARKET (LONGSHANSHI mrt)

DAY 2 (SUN)

1) 7.00PM WAKE UP BREAKFAST
2) ½ DAY SPRING (@ BEITOU)
3)TAIWAN TOUR including NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM (NT160)(LAST STATION SHILIN NIGHT MARKET)
3) JIANTAN MRT HEADED TO THE STOP, WAIT FOR FREE BUS TO MIRAMAR COMPLEX (NORMALLY IS THE LONG QUEUE)
4) SHILIN NIGHT MARKET (AFTER 6.30PM TILL 2AM)

Hello!

I would really appreciate if anyone can help me with the following questions.

1. Is there a direct bus from CKS airport to Rainbow hotel (located at Wu-Chang Street)? If so how should I go about taking it? How much does it cost per person?

2. Alternatively if I do take a cab to the hotel, how much does it cost?

3. Do you bargain at the Night Market? How much is the maximum amount you can bargain for? Is it half or 1/4 of the price?

4. For the month of July, will it be a hot and humid?

Thank you so much and pardon me for taking up your time to these questions.

My daughter is visiting Taipei and going to bed right now. In their morning they will leave Taichung for Taipei. She is having trouble finding gift shops. She finally found one in Taichung and found quite a few things and adapted to the art of haggling for the price. She did walk away from a porcelain china doll for $50.00US, that we now feel was a fair price. So, now she has only a couple of days in Taipei. Can anyone tell her were to go to find the cultural gifts that all of us a home want. I am especially anxious for a porcelain china doll because my son brought me a beautiful japanese mother and two smaller girls when he was stationed in Japan.

any other good SPA resort at nantou to recommend other than spa spring?
cos spa spring is under big renovation til september... sad =(

hi, does anyone knows
1)whr is the exact location of the taichung wufenpu(i oni noe its at tianjin) and the opening time?
2)whr is the money changer in taoyuan airport and whats the rate nw?
3)what is nice to eat in taichung and fengjia nitemarket?
4)is jianhushan theme park worth gg n whats the tix price like?
5)'nu ren wo zhui da' is tiz a gd skincare brand n whr can it be found?

thankz!

Hi

Did you all heard about cabbie meeky yang, fee for a day around 10hr for NT3000. Exluding the admission ticket. He will come to the hotel and fetch us and send us back to hotel or any night market that we want to go. There will be 3 people includes me.

With a youth pass. Do you think it is still worth of booking a cabbie go all these place Yehliu -> Shifen -> Jiufen Old Street -> Jingguashih -> 南雅 -> 鼻頭 -> Yinyanghai -> keelung tong seng park -> MiaoKow Food Street. Maybe more as depends on the road route.

Or you guys have better suggestion. Pls advise me. Thanks

Hi,

I will be travelling to Taipei soon and am staying at Wonstar Hotel. As I'm intending to take one of the express buses to the hotel, anyone can recommend which is the best, where to alight and further directions after alighting?

Thx!

Hi

Can someone tell me what is youth pass from http://www.wretch.cc/blog/wsh79

or youth pass = student pass

Thanks

Hi

Anyone know whats the available transport option from Sun Moon Lake(SML) to Hualien?

Whats the cost like to hire a long distance taxi SML to Hualien? Is it very far? Will it be safe for ladies traveller? Any reliable taxi driver to recommend for the transport?

thanks

Hi all

I am going to taipei on 21 June 08 to 26 June 08 and will be staying in rainbow hotel in ximending.

I wish to go Hualien but anyone can tell me. As I have a few question?

How to get there?
How many Hour?
How much the railway cost?
Where is the starting point of taipei railway (take to which station so that I can board up)?
Must I book online or I can buy at there?
How is the weather that time?


Any great ideas which place that I can go.
I want to go Alishan but its seems too far.



Thanks

My husband and I are traveling to Taipei in a few months, staying at his brother's home. Can anyone tell me where this location is in relation to the main districts of Taipei?

Lung-Mi Road, Taipei County, Ba-Li Township

It's not easy to find a hotel for a family of 5 which consist of my mother, 2 kids besides my husband and myself. Would be greatful if any members can recommend any hotel and places of interest especially for the kids (aged 11 & 13yrs). By the way, is Xi Men Ding a good place to stay? We have 3 full days to spend our time in Taipei. How's the weather during June? Any recommendation is greatly appreciated.

Needed help!

For accommodation - besides TS and Rainbow hotel,, any other 3-star hotel to recommend? (means near to MTR or any shopping area)

If we would like to travel to Kaohsiung, it will be by air or train?
Is there any bullet train to get to Kaohsiung from Taipei?
How long will it takes (the fastest way) and how much will it costs?

Will appreciated your advise!

Thanks a million!

I am looking for recommendations with regards to hostel or cheap hotels in Nanjing West area or nearby Zhongshan MRT station and it seems quite limited search. Any good recommendation?

Hi there, I'm totally new to this forum but would really love it if someone can provide some suggestion on places to shop in Taipei City. I'll be flying to Taiwan in May and will be spending about 3 days in Taipei City and another 5/6 ard Taiwan.

I plan to visit CKS Memorial Hall, SYS, National Palace Museum, Taipei 101 and TungShan Temple during my visit in Taipei - this is solely for sightseeing purpose

For shopping, I would like to visit Wu Fen Pu and Shilin Market. Can someone help me out on when is the best time to visit this places? I heard that Wu Fen Pu is only open for retailers on Friday, anyone can confirm this? Any other suggestion on where to shop best?

Really appreciate all the help here. Thanks in advanced. :)

hi i juz wan to noe how long will it take to travel from taipei to keelung by the railway? and how much will the fare be? for the train ticket...must i book in advance or buy on the spot. thk!!

HI I WANT TO VISIT TAIPEI BUT IM ON LIMITTED BUDGET IF I HAVE $100 CAN I GO AROUND THE CITY JUST THE BASICS NOTHING FANCY THE $100 WILL COVER FOOD & TRANSPORT ALLOWANZ FOR 3 DAYS...PLEASE HELP TY

hi im planning to visit taipe but im just a budget traveller i was wondering if i can go around the city nothing fancy with just basics for $100 transport & food allowanz & are there budget hotels for $11 a night?

Help please!

I have invited my wife's sister and mother to visit us in Canada. I have sent all the necessary documents required by the Philippine and Canadian immigration including airline tickets. They are stopping over for a few hours in Taipei and then on to Canada.
I heard tonight that the Taipei immigration is wanting a "PECO STAMP" I have no idea what this is or where I can obtain one for our travellers.

Can you HELP me?

Thanks,


Joe