well can be both together hahaha.... I wish my work can go overseas all the time... that would be so awesome.

For work... At this stage of life, no leisure.

Yeah, you are right.

I don't mind to have another round of ah chung mee sua.

I can tell u no fun-lah..Only few hours at nite you;re able to go around for shopping ^ food..no real attractions & no way to visit places of interest..

Just for avoidance of confusion, do note that PBB (with caveat) can indeed be used to withdraw money overseas
Some bank employees simply don't know enough about their own products.

Just make sure that it is the PBB Day2Day Visa (Electron) which is an ATM cum Debit Card. I can attest to that as my fiancée has the card...which has the Visa Plus logo. You can also refer to item 3(iv) of the PBB link re-posted below.

Well, im heading to taiwan at 15 - 17th April. Anyone are heading at this time?

Because we are finding 2-3 people can share our driver fees, whole day 24 hrs at taipei is RM200 per car / driver, instead of 2 of us going, find more people so we can share the fees if anyone is going.

anyone can help on this? ty

going for 5 days and 4 nights but we only got 3 full days to tour taiwan.
Is it enough to travel around taipei's interesting places for 2 whole days and another day to outskirts such as tarako gorge? But will forget about it if the travel to tarako time consuming and cost a lot unless it's worth visitng...need yr guys' opinion


Is taipeizoo worth visiting? no one mention about it....

Taroko Girge will be 1 full day..as you wikk be spending atleaast 5-6hrs on the train return journey.

So you only having 2 days in Taipei.. You can do-it by skipping Some nearby Taipei attraction such as Jiufen & Yehliu.

For me, I still choose Taroko over other part of Taipei

This post has been edited by stimix: Mar 20 2011, 09:17 AM

any nice souvenir to buy in taipei? food stuff?
is instant noodles or any dry stuff in taipei cheaper and tastier? planning to buy in bulk together with clothes since my luggage can up to 30 kg!!

Instant noodle slightly expensive if I can recall. not much souvenirs in taipei, the city not really cater for tourist compare to bangkok, Phuket or Bali..

The most famous tart is their pineapple tart _ well for me, nothing special-lah

This post has been edited by stimix: Mar 20 2011, 08:48 PM

after browsing more than 100 pages here about taiwan trip, here's is my planned travel for 5D4N or to be exact 3 full days...we stayed in New World hotel near xi menting


Day 1
Can I go all these places jiufen-beitou-yehliu-wharf-lover's bridge in one day plus nite market?

Day 2
1 full day to tarako perhaps? But budget wise and time I will just forget about it and replaced with Yang ming shan, CKS hall and around taipei will do?
How much the overall trip from XMD to Hualien-Tarako if we go in 3 ppl and high speed train? wanna try it out

Day 3
Shopping whole day (SOGO and etc) and taipei zoo plus nite market?


Pls give some guidance thanks.

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Added on March 20, 2011, 9:05 pmafter browsing more than 100 pages here about taiwan trip, here's is my planned travel for 5D4N or to be exact 3 full days...we stayed in New World hotel near xi menting


Day 1
Can I go all these places jiufen-beitou-yehliu-wharf-lover's bridge in one day plus nite market?

Day 2
1 full day to tarako perhaps? But budget wise and time I will just forget about it and replaced with Yang ming shan, CKS hall and around taipei will do?
How much the overall trip from XMD to Hualien-Tarako if we go in 3 ppl and high speed train? wanna try it out

Day 3
Shopping whole day (SOGO and etc) and taipei zoo plus nite market?


Pls give some guidance thanks.

This post has been edited by wyen: Mar 20 2011, 09:05 PM

Jiufen + Yehliu will be one full day dy. By the time you reached Taipei after both locations, will be ~ 8pm dy..No time to the Northern side of Taipei (Beitou & Dangshui)

Thanks a lot stimix for yr guidance. I think i will stick to beitou, jiufen, yehliu, danshui, YMS and other nearby area will do for shopping for 3 days....how about theme park like lee foo village or windows on china?

has anyone here been to the taipei flora expo? is it recommended to visit there?

Well, not too sure for city inn 1.. my friend recommend me to stay at city inn 2 o 3 which is next to each other.. n it's very convenient... very near to Taipei Main MRT station

Why is airasia ticket price not dropping.... Anyway the total amount of airasia include tax right? what extra charges do i still need to pay?

Yes, tax included.. others like luggage fees, meal, insurance, convenient fee (if u pay using credit card/charge card)

is the others compulsory? Normally how much does luggage, insurance & convenient fees cost?

Air Asia will drop the price once they start their sales. From past history, promo tickets to Taipei can be as low as RM250 till RM400 inc of tax.

For fee schedule check here:

http://www.airasia.com/my/en/flightinfo/feeschedule.page?#

This post has been edited by stimix: Mar 21 2011, 03:38 PM

Yea the price now i check is around RM431 (depart) but return will be RM304 is this considered cheap or i should wait for a cheaper rate? and thanks for the link. its pretty useful.