Consumers who add NT$10 to their Taiwan High Speed Rail tickets from Dec. 20 to Jan. 31 can receive a taxi discount coupon worth NT$70 and a buy-one-get-one-free Mos Burger (摩斯漢堡) voucher, local travel agencies said yesterday.
Four local travel agencies, including South East Travel Service Co (
The four travel agencies will also be teaming up with Taiwan Fast Link (
Paul Hsu (許永裕), vice president of South East Travel, said during a telephone interview yesterday the company's most popular Taiwan High Speed Rail packages from south to north were day trips to Snow Mountain Tunnel (雪山隧道), which cost NT$999 plus the cost of the rail tickets, depending on the point of departure.
For consumers traveling from north to south, the most popular packages are day trips to Kaohsiung and Chichin (旗津), which cost NT$1,200 plus the cost of the rail tickets, he said.
The NT$70 taxi discount coupon can only be applied to taxi fares of more than NT$100, said Joy Pao (
Also, there are only 10,000 buy-one-get-one free Mos Burger vouchers available, said Janus Chen (陳朝慶), executive vice president of Mos Burger.
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