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 Traveller's Tales: Doing business in Taiwan
Take note of the helpful information on business travel near in Taiwan. You may read about their business tips and guides. Find out the local business customs and guide on business travel. Also, you might want to read our
Taipei city guide.
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| R Siedare |
Wednesday, 9 October 2002 |
Stayed at Royal Taipei Hotel - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Resturants: Breakfast, Royal, Genghis Khan Resturant (Bar-B-Q), Ruth's Chris Steak House
Tours: Half day tour to Keelung
Business: International Trade Center
Sight seeing: Night Market, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial
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| P Sarathy |
Monday, 19 August 2002 |
Stayed at K Hotel Taipei 3 - Taipei, Taiwan.
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The city is not tourist friendly. The help desk at the airport is open limited hours making it difficult for the visitors who arrive or leave early in the morning. English language assistance is very poor in all places including airport. Hard to find currency exchange places even in busy areas. If you need to change currrency outside of scheduled banking hours, God help you. Taiwan needs to spend more resources on becoming more tourist friendly.
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| J Turtola |
Thursday, 6 June 2002 |
Stayed at Imperial Hotel Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taipei is business city. People don't speak too much english, but they are helpful.
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| J Vendetti |
Wednesday, 24 April 2002 |
Stayed at Gloria Prince Hotel - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taiwan is definitely worth a visit. Taipei kept us busy for all but 5 days of our 2 week vacation. The MRT (subway)is excellent, new, clean, and speedy. Signs and announcements at stops are in English. You can go almost anywhere and where you can't a cab will take you for a low fare and no tip. Taipei is a very safe city. Culture - there are the many temples, museums, and memorials, notably the Chang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and the Martyrs Shrine.
Shopping - there are the day markets (a good one at the Gloria Prince MRT stop) and night markets on the streets, wholesale spice markets, small shops and huge department stores. Food - all the markets sell food; noodles, seafood, dumplings and things unknown to me. Everywhere there are food carts. We got fresh pineapple (the best ever) from a cart across from the hotel each night to put in the refrigerator for breakfast. Restaurants from every region in China can be found and if you need a bite from home the fastfood giants are there too.
In order to see the island in a no-hassle way, we booked a 5-day tour with Edison Travel (a Taiwan company) before we left. You can book various tours through your hotel too. The tour was great (reasonably priced), no more than 8 people, nice hotels, interesting food, and great views. We went by van, train and airplane and saw the west, south and east. The highlight was the Taroka Gorge on the east coast. I would have liked to drive the east coast road that hugs the mountains and just hangs over the sea. Well, next time.
If you enjoy photography you will find alot to take. The country is an interesting mix of old and new. A growing economy has resulted in building projects of very innovative and pleasing architecture. The twist is that in many places rice paddies abut the new buildings. If you only visit Taipei, you can get a very good impression of the whole island by taking the MRT to the end of the lines, the very north and the ocean or the very south and getting a cab to explore the tea plantations.
I found the Insight Guide Taiwan (most home book stores) very helpful and if your hotel has the Taipei Tourist Guide published by the City Bureau of Transportation and American Express its great and you need it. Have a happy trip. We will be enjoying Taiwan as we down load and edit our 980 and photos (it beat Paris). Have fun!
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| S Sangampalayam |
Saturday, 9 February 2002 |
Stayed at Grand Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taipei is primarily a city for business , not for pleasure. Remember to have all your destination addresses written by someone in Chinese, very little english spoken. A rather expensive city. For those with a GSM phone, pick up a sim card in the airport, reasonable price.
If there is time to do only one thing, visit the national museum. I am told that more than 75% of all priceless chinese works of art are in the museum, not in the mainland.
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| A Ciceri |
Friday, 30 November 2001 |
Stayed at Ambassador Kaohsiung Hotel, The - Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Kaohsiung is more a business destination than a tourist one.
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| K Llewellyn-jones |
Tuesday, 25 September 2001 |
Stayed at Shangri-La Far Eastern Plaza Hotel - Taipei, Taiwan.
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I used the hotel purely for business purposes but I found the taxis inexpensive and easy to use.
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| A Cramp |
Tuesday, 8 May 2001 |
Stayed at Fortuna Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taiwan is too expensive, in comparison to other Asian destinations. $40.00 US for a taxi downtown from the airport. $5.00 cup of coffee at the Sheraton Lai-Lai gives me a negative impression of Taipei. I will keep searching for reasonable prices in Taipei, as I must travel there on business.
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| T Ritter |
Wednesday, 25 April 2001 |
Stayed at Gloria Prince Hotel - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Taiwan good place for business, not such a great place to vacation.
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