| S See |
21 December 2004 |
Stayed at Grand Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Shih Lin night market is a fantastic place to visit, particularly if you are staying at the Grand Hotel. For ladies who are shoe fanatics, you will enjoy the wide range of shoes you get at the market with each pair going for only NT$390 at various stores.
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| C Chow |
08 October 2004 |
Stayed at Riviera Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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TPE is a relatively a more expensive city amongst Asian cities. It is a very convenient city if you are able to converse in Mandarin or have your destinations written down in Mandarin for you. Despite being a Metropolitan, we find the people friendly and warm. We went to an alfresco night food market near the hotel and the stall operators even insisted that we bring back leftovers of a dish we barely touched. I am an avid traveller and past experience is normally that they would be glad if you vacate your seat as soon as you finished your food! The Shilin Night Market is a good experience and Yangming Shan was a breathe of fresh air. Transportation around TPE is conveniently served by its good MRT coverage and efficient bus services. Even the bus company staff are extremely helpful to travellers. I am a Mandarin-speaking person but I would suggest that all carry your hotel names and addresses in chinese as the names are very different in chinese (not direct translation from English).
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| T Ting |
22 May 2004 |
Stayed at Le Petit Sherwood - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Visit the new Page One bookstore in Taiwan 101 Tower - Taipei's new, monstrous landmark. The bookstore offers a great selection, perhaps one of the best I've seen in Asia.
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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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| 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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| Y Okamoto |
23 March 2003 |
Stayed at Splendor Hotel Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Kaohsiung is good place for shoppingDMy department store is Hanshin DepartmentD
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| Y Okamoto |
22 March 2003 |
Stayed at Howard Plaza Hotel Kaohsiung - Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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I visited many Japanese DepartmentsDMy recomendation is Hanshin DepartmentD
Sightseeing site is scattered so I think visiting many sites by oneself in a short time is difficult.
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| P Armstrong |
12 March 2003 |
Stayed at Han Hsien International - Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Kaoshiung was, for the period we were there, extremely smoggy. Unfortunately our business commitments meant little time was available for sightseeing etc. Shopping in Sogo etc was good - customer service exceptional.
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| K Kay au |
07 March 2003 |
Stayed at Fortuna Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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Do not miss the Shilin Night Market - it is a place where you can get local goods like clothes and costume jewellery at a fraction of the price that you would have to pay in USA or Europe. Forget about the Huashi Night Market (Snake Market). All that they have are a few stalls selling snake soup, snake blood and snake meat and a few other shops.
For the young and trendy, go to Hsimenting - the Harajuku of Taipei where you can get trendy and funky clothes at a song.
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| L Lau |
02 January 2003 |
Stayed at Fortuna Hotel, Taipei - Taipei, Taiwan.
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I have been in Taiwan many times. The recent stay was due to the flight stopover from Auckland. You can easily get around Taipei by subway. Taxi is also not expensive.
In Taipei, you must visit their night market. The most famous one is Shilin night market (can be reached by subway). Another is the hot spring. You can go to Peitou very easily by subway and there are many spa and hot springs resort. The one we tried called Spring Resort - very nice. A bit expensive but worth trying.
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Traveller's Tales: Shopping suggestions in Taiwan
