oh yeah...email 劉阿姨 using English can ar?

lazy to type Chinese.... haha

Hi again, for your information, you can redeem free gift or voucher from the "Taiwan Visitors Association, Kuala Lumpur Office". Today i just received my Hot Spring Bath Voucher! hope you guys don miss out on that!

Website : www.welcome2taiwan.net

台灣觀光協會吉隆坡辦事處<Taiwan Visitors Association, Kuala Lumpur Office>

    * Suite 25-01, Level 25, Wisma Goldhill, 67 Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    * Tel：60-3-20706789
    * Fax：60-3-20723559
    * Email：tva@streamyx.com

Document needed for redemption:
1. Air Ticket
2. Hotel Booking Confirmation
3. Remember to provide your correspondent address for delivering the voucher and travel information!

You can send your document via there email above, [Attention to Joseph] who is quite helpful. 15 Oct request then 16 Oct (today) received d!

cheers!!

Hi again, for your information, you can redeem free gift or voucher from the "Taiwan Visitors Association, Kuala Lumpur Office". Today i just received my Hot Spring Bath Voucher! hope you guys don miss out on that!

Website : www.welcome2taiwan.net

台灣觀光協會吉隆坡辦事處<Taiwan Visitors Association, Kuala Lumpur Office>

    * Suite 25-01, Level 25, Wisma Goldhill, 67 Jalan Raja Chulan, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    * Tel：60-3-20706789
    * Fax：60-3-20723559
    * Email：tva@streamyx.com

For me, im brining NT24,000 for 2 persons....is that enough?? So your advice is better change some USD and change into NT in the airport or money changer?

Debit card is like Credit card function but it uses the fund in your saving account. As credit card company like visa or mastercard valid worldwide, so you can just withdraw your money through any bank overseas. exchange rate will be the same from the Visa & Master international exchange rate...which i think will normally lower than currency note exchange. just bear in mind, diff bank in malaysia will have diff charges by withdrawing money in overseas.

Ai ya, want to visit but no time. waste already.

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Added on October 16, 2009, 9:17 pm

Should be enough for 24,000. 8 days mean 8 * 2 * 1500 = 24000.
So each person if use less then 1500 still can shop. Their 7-11 and carrefour is nice to buy things. I like their instant bowl noodle very much, just around 40 to 60 per bowl.
Get a spare credit card in case want to buy something you like.
I only allocate 1000/person/day coz just wander around taipei, others will used by my wife shopping.

My experience is Citibank credit card give the best conversion rate, standard chartered one is lousy.
If use debit card better use oversea bank one, in case local one hard to go through, u know lah, Malaysia bank don't have branch in Taiwan.

does bring USD over helps?  or is it really hard to find money changer?

anyone know if there's any major sales / discount vouches in taipei?  i tried searching google.... but only come up airline / hotel discounts

Ai ya, want to visit but no time. waste already.

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Added on October 16, 2009, 9:17 pm

Should be enough for 24,000. 8 days mean 8 * 2 * 1500 = 24000.
So each person if use less then 1500 still can shop. Their 7-11 and carrefour is nice to buy things. I like their instant bowl noodle very much, just around 40 to 60 per bowl.
Get a spare credit card in case want to buy something you like.
I only allocate 1000/person/day coz just wander around taipei, others will used by my wife shopping.

My experience is Citibank credit card give the best conversion rate, standard chartered one is lousy.
If use debit card better use oversea bank one, in case local one hard to go through, u know lah, Malaysia bank don't have branch in Taiwan.

Thanks for all the opinion....i think i will change some USD to standby and can for next yr my Cambodia trip as well.....AirAsia ROCKS!!..now really everyone can fly...even fly everyday oso can!!

Ya, I travel many places with AA, but always wait for its promotion, lagi worth to buy. But hard to go in  group if 1 2 buy during promotion coz need to make decision fast, if u call 1 by 1 to confirm d date, the time u got the answers, the tickets all sold out. So, normally go 2 persons only, can make decision immediately.

It's good to spare some US dollars when traveling, it's recognize in all countries.

Cambodia is another country I wish to visit too, now "printing" money, hopefully manage to make it

Booking hotel rooms thru AA website is cheaper or the other way round?
My chinese sucks....so....

From other forumer regarding exchange money (sorry in chinese, but can follow my way RM to US $ and then to NT$ at airport:

Anyone plans to backpack to Taipei?

Share you plan..

Hey thanks!  this is very informative!  hehe perhaps i'll do just that

by the way... the Taiwan Tourism Association, you can just mail them your details and enclose a self addressed & stamped envelope of RM3.50 and they will mail the stuff to you.. otherwise, just go to their office and collect

Taiwan Visitors Association KL Office
Suite 25-01, Level 25, Wisma Goldhill,
67 Jalan Raja Chulan,
50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: +603-20706789

in red is my comments



After reading the post, I've decided to go on my own instead of taking ground arrangement. I have total 7 nights in taiwan end of dec, basicly i would like to stay 3 nights in taipei, 1 night in hualien, 1 night in ching jing farm, 1 night in alishan, 1 night in tao yuan.
But ah, i got no idea how to go each destination to next destination. I will do more research. but need some recommendation from u all also.
I've a problem here, i wanted to go alishan so much, but after reading some articles in travel blog / taiwan blog / etc, noted that the road going up to alishan is koyak! is there any altenative way to go to alishan? there's a rail right? still ok ka?

my itinerary:-
day 1: kul - tpe
overnight taoyuan

day 2: taoyuan visit to sunflower farm, later take bus to hualien & taroko
overnight hualien

day 3: taroko > ching jing farm
possible ka????
Possible but not recommended cuz the road from taroko to ching jing is very adventure and very risky.

day 4: ching jing farm > alishan
possible ka???
impossible for now because according to many, of 4x4 mountain car can reach alishan and now nothing to see there cuz the typhoon already destroy there badly[COLOR]

day 5: alishan > tpe
[COLOR=red]So instead of alishan, you should change to other places

day 6: tpe

day 7: tpe

day 8: tpe > kl

Is my itinerary ok? so blur now..need some advise..