Hotels
Howard Plaza Hotel 新竹福华大饭店
5 / 5 stars !!!
Accessibility:
-Mini Mart nearby
-Near to MRT stations
Facilities:
-Wifi is fast in hotel room
-Shops on ground level
Room: Comfortable bed, good air-conditioning and
Toilet: The toilet is clean, classy and sophisticated! Refreshing bathing session 🌊 with mirrors at every corner!! Everywhere you look, you will see yourself.
Meals: The breakfast buffet had almost the same food for 3 mornings but the food was fresh and of good quality. GREAT FOOD!!! The best so far.
We had three good night rests, the best of the three hotels we went to.
The room card looks so stylish:
The view from our room early in the morning:
Day 4: 28th May
Talmud Business Hotel - Guangfu Brandh 台中塔木德酒店光复馆
3.5 / 5 stars
Room: Quite spacious with a creepy doorbell that sounded like crows crowing.
Toilet: Small and a bit scary. The waste matter cannot flushed down.
Meal: There was little variety of food to choose from. Shaun is displeased with the quality of the rice.
Day 5-7: 29th May-31st May
Ferrary Hotel 台北华丽大饭店
3/5 stars (last night of stay 2/5 stars)
Room: A little squeezy / haunted sort of not really.
Toilet: Spacious and had a jacuzzi!
Meal: There was no variety of food to choose from. Shaun likes rice a lot and is disappointed when there wasn't any during breakfast.
Transportation
China Airlines
4/5 stars
-Pleasant meals
-Comfort seating for resting
-Entertainment platforms: Games, Magazines, Movies and Music
-Awkward seating arrangement of 2-4-2
-Air stewardess were polite and fast to respond to request of passangers
Tour bus 旅行车
4.5/5 stars
-Comfortable seats
-Relatively smooth driving
-Friendly bus driver
-Cup holder is present
-Easy to rest on
Taiwan Highspeed Bullet Train 台湾高速地铁
5/5 stars
-Food & drinks allowed (can have dinner after work on train!!)
-Comfy seats
-Great sceneries
-Very spacious
-There were no safety barriers on the platform
Taipei Metro System 台北捷运地铁
3.5/5 stars
-Super packed
-Quite old
-Similar to Singapore's MRT
-Still relatively good for transportation
Favourite attractions!!
921 Earthquake Museum
4/5 stars
-Clean and cool environment
-Captivative and interesting information displayed (Allowed us to better learn!!)
-3D Videos to watch
-Get to experience an actual earthquake
-Preserved ruins made by the earthquake to educate us
Shih-fen Old Street
5/5 stars
-Beautiful and relaxing scenery
-Interesting souvenirs and street food shops
-Old trains that pass through the street as a tourist attraction
-Helpful staff that initiated to take photographs for us to commemorate moment when we were releasing our sky lantern
Fengjia Night Market
4/5 stars
-Wide variety of local delicacies
-Cheap
-Dangerous street because vehicles can pass through but that's the feel of Taiwan!!
-Friendly store vendors
