Taiwan has been a model of how to control the pandemic since its inception in early 2020, thanks to effective contact tracing, strict quarantine, and coordinated government action. However, these past few days have been unusual with the rapid increase in the number of domestic cases to a level that has never been reached since the pandemic started.
We spent $7,300 in cash + 112,000 airlines points in booking we had to cancel due to COVID19. In this post, we share all the details about what bookings we made before the pandemic, how much we paid, how much we got back, how long it took for us to get our money back, which strategies we used to get our money back and what we learned for the future.
As we look forward to a brighter 2021, we are going to discuss what mostly positive changes we think we can expect to see about remote work, why digital nomadism is about to become more popular than ever and what impact this will have on the travel industry in general.
We are very grateful for the outstanding work that Taiwan has done to keep all its residents safe during this unprecedented global pandemic and we are also grateful that we as nomads can choose where we want to stay.
In this article, we won’t go over all the wonders of Taiwan that we already covered at length. Instead we will be digging into our expenses in Taiwan – during the pandemic for the past 9 months!