First time staying in service apartments. Ironically, there isn't any service at the apartments which was fine for us because we don't need to ask for travel information.

Ding Ding offers shared facilities like free internet, washing machine and public phone along the corridor. Our assigned room was right along the corridor. Angmoh next door did his laundry at 12 midnight and I had to sneak out to stop it. Angmoh heard no sound and on it again. The phone rings and no one pick up. Phone doesn't belong to anyone in the first place of cos no one will pick up. But the saving grace was, we used the (laptop to search and) phone to call up our next apartment bcos Ding Ding was full. Just that the phone bill came up to S$5 worth of NT10 coins.

We moved from Houshanpi to a newly renovated apartment at Zhongxiao Fuxing. Everything was new and clean. First tenant of the unit. No neighbours, no shared facilities. Quiet, luxurious and expensive. It was just for one night and we shifted to Taipei Train Station the next day.

Taipei Zhuwo is my favourite. Cosy and personal. Which hotel provides cotton buds, detergent and hair dryer in the room? Alien leaves two books on the desk in every room - a guestbook and housekeeping booklet. There were also a few pages on her travel around Taiwan and how she started her own apartment. I could see 101 if I press half of my face on the window. Walking distance to metro can be deceivingly long especially when we're dead beat after a long day. It takes at least 20 mins to exit the metro, go through the underground mall, up the escalator and take two lifts to reach our room.

Thanks to him for choosing these strategic locations. Get ready some coins if you're prepared to stay in a service apartment in Taipei. You'll know why you need it when you get there. Even when we ran out of cash on the last day, the most important thing was to save some coins to call Alien to retrieve our luggage :)