Taipei: Flight Home

We did not have much time on our final day in Taipei. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 8am so we got up around 5. We checked out of the hostel and went across the street to catch the bus to the airport. It was another long bus ride, about an hour. When we checked in at the airport they told us that the flight we were on was overbooked so they were offering us business class seats on a Cathy Pacific flight that left 25 minutes later. We decided to take it and they gave us an additional NTD200 to spend on food in the restaurant. This made us very happy because the extra 25 minutes gave us time to eat breakfast and since we had used up all our NTD, the extra 200 gave us enough to buy breakfast. We then boarded the Cathy Pacific Airbus 330 and found our seats. There was very few people in business class and the configuration of the plan had no first class. Cathy Pacific has been given service awards and it really showed. The treatment we got in business class for that hour and half flight was better then first class in the states. All the flight attendants memorized our names and always addressed us by our last name. We were given a selection of fresh food which was also very good. It wasn't long before we were back in Hong Kong. I got back to my room at about noon and spent the rest of the day resting.