Taipei 5D4N Anniversary Trip

Hi guys! The boyfriend and I just came back from our 5D4N second anniversary trip from Taipei.
Generally, July is not exactly a good time to head to Taiwan because the weather is gonna be really cranky, it can be VERY hot and yet be pouring the next second!! but !!! I would say we are very lucky because we experienced the rainfall for only once (the entire trip!!) :-p

Long story short, 9 July 2019 marks the second year we got together. We bought our air tickets + hotel accommodation VIA Expedia 3 months before our trip.

Total damage is SGD 1096.79 for air tickets and hotel accommodation (I will share more about the hotel later). I would say the timing for our flight is really good. We fly on the 9th July 2019 at 730am, touching down at Taoyuan International Airport at 12pm++

Day 1:

 

Upon touching down at Taoyuan International Airport and clearing the customs, we took an express train to Taipei main station > took MRT to Ximen station (1 stop away from the main station) and proceed to check in to our hotel.

For this trip, we stayed 4 nights at Hotel Midtown Richardson, 2mins walk from Ximen station, right next to Ximen Partyworld building. It's super duper convenient!!! :-D The hotel is very clean and nice. We stayed in a city deluxe double room with a bathtub, and it comes with hotel breakfast!!  (we never get to try the breakfast though because the breakfast timing is from 8am to 10am i think, it's kinda early for us oops)

We went to have some Ichiran Ramen because we have been craving for it ever since our Hongkong Trip. It still tastes AS good!!!!

As we stay right next to Ximen party world, we decided to go for some KTV session in a huge ass room haha. We sang for 4hours help. Oh alcohols are always so cheap compared to Singapore *gulp gulp gulp*

DAY 2: 

We booked a day-tour from KLOOK for about SGD100 prior flying over. Around 1pm, the tour guide fetched us from our hotel and drove us to visit some touristic places which are not so accessible to go to. Oh, the tour only have 5people including the boyfriend and me, sooooo it's pretty cosy and nice. It's by Edison tour, recommended!!

We also went to wufenpu + raohe night market! It's one of my favourite night market in Taipei!! :-D You can reach there by walking from houshanpi MRT if you intend to go for some shopping at wufenpu, else you can alight at another station which is nearer to the night market (i forgot which station though), but it's really easy to navigate with Google maps haha.

DAY 3:

Went to Villa 32 for our 90mins hot spring session, it's a super nice and relaxing place to go to!! Do rmb to make a reservation online before heading down ya because they have limited rooms available.

 


After the relaxing hotspring session, we took a cab to Shihlin Night market because we are very lazy to walk back to the MRT station haha 2 lazy old people here :-p If you are going there by train, nearest station will be Jiantan station (red line).

After all the walking, we headed back to the hotel for some rest before making our way to Taipei 101 for HDL!!! Taipei HDL is kinda cheap as compared to Singapore's. After our dinner, it's already close to 1130pm so we decided to go for some drinks nearby.

DAY 4:

Went to the last night market - Shi Da.

 

Also watch a movie together - The White Storm 2 by Andy Lau and Louis Koo!!! The movie is SO nice!! Not to mention, of course it's in Cantonese haha which makes it nicer. Oh! You know what? As we are waiting for the lift up to the cinema with tickets in our hands, there's their movie poster on the lift saying the movie will start showing on 12 July 2019 and we are like ???? what day is it today????? Isn't it 11th????? We panicked for real!! We thought we bought tickets for the next day instead but well, It's 12th July 2019 already but we still in denial hahaha.

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This draft have been lying here for 10 holy months!!! I got lazy and stop halfway oops. Guess I shall just upload this post anw haha.