Tapei Revsited 2011-Departing Spore, Arriving Taipei

As usual, I booked the 1st flight over to Taipei, hoping to start the trip early. Flight was at 7am and we are expected to land at 12pm. Our usual practice is to spend the night at the airport, awaiting to check in at 5am and catch up on our sleep on the plan. Tiring but we are used to it.

Mid night snack at T3

We landed on time but faced a bit of challenge when clearing the customs as the officer was a bit on the fussy side, checking every single details, asking many questions. It took us longer than usual to clear for as we walked to the baggage claim area, our bags are already out, not a bad thing though.

While waiting to board

As we exit the arrival hall, it caught my attention that they are selling Sim cards with 3G data plans. And the price is quite reasonable.NTD 500 for 5days of unlimited data usage, which is around SGD 23. On top of it, I get NTD210 worth of talk time.Thus we applied for 1, which requires our passport and IC. Lucky for us, they cater to iphone users which is using the smaller SIM card.

On bus to Taipei City

After settling the new phone line, we proceed to buy our bus tickets to downtown Taipei. There are 2 buses that ply to route to downtown Taipei. 1 is Guo Kuang (国光） the other 1 being Fei Guo（飞狗）.

Brought my fav piglet there

Guo Guang has a bus terminal in Taipei Main station and would terminate the service there while Fei Guo’s terminal is pretty out of the way and thus passengers can alight at designated hotel stops.

Of course we choose Fei Guo since we need not transit in Taipei Main station, moreover, I have no idea of the exact location for our hotel. Turns out that the hotel is just beside the main road, super convenient.

Wonstar-Zhong Hua Branch

The hotel was also pretty strict, they dun allow early check in thus we went for lunchie 1st before going back to check in at 3pm..

1st meal in Taipei, is Mr Love’s favourite –KFC, I do not really fancy their fries, taste like fried sweet potato instead, but their chickie definitely tastes better than SG version. Later when we passed by my favourite fried stuff stall, we decided to buy some snacks and eat it while waiting to check in.

Taipei KFC

Our must-have in XMT

After checking in, we rested awhile in the room, before starting our Taipei journey.



Our room-Abit small but still comfortable

Got Jacuzzi bathtub smmore...