Hi everyone,
I've juz came back from Taipei over a 5 days 4 nite trip. Its sure a great place for food.
For Hot Spring, depends on whether u guys trying real authentic one or those privatised one. We went to one authentic one at Yang Ming San. Its a free and separate guy n ladies one but inside all old man n women. We din try tat one n instead took MRT to Xin Bei Tou Station n once come out of MRT station on the right of the garden, theres' quite a lot of selection. We chose one of the prettier one. Got a couples room for NT1000+ for the use of 1 hr. Quite good.
For good food, u can try all the nite mkts there like Shi Lin (Take MRT to Jian Tan MRT), the biggest mkt. Its directly outside the MRT. Every food was NICE!
. The other mkts tat we went were not near MRT but its still quite easy to find as usually takes abt 10-15 mins walk. Can ask pp there, very friendly.
Din buy much shopping there coz the things more expensive n prefer to buy in S'pore if u r referring to shopping malls. But the shoes at the nite mkt are around NT390 per pair so abt S$20+ still ok lah.. Or if looking for youngsters stuff like those in Bugis, can try Xi Men Ting (Take MRT to Xi Men). If go on sat afternoon, maybe can catch some chinese pop stars. (We managed to catch 5566 n Guang Liang)
If going F&E and on budget, would recommend stay at hotels near MRT. If planning to go to a lot of places on 1 day, can buy their one-day pass for NT$150.
Hope tat helps!