Hot springs, yoga, spa, sports recovery, retreats, food and the outdoors: how a wellness trip gets planned just right, told from a traveller's point of view.
Emma flew in from London for her first visit to Taiwan and wanted nothing more than to slow down. With HAOTIVA she planned six days and five nights: Pilates, sauna and massage in Taipei, then one night in an onsen room in Jiaoxi.
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Daniel flew more than ten hours from Vancouver to Taipei and didn't want to power through the first day. With HAOTIVA he planned three days of massage, hot-cold contrast and sauna that follow his body's rhythm.
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Aya, from Osaka, and her sister wanted to go somewhere quiet. They planned four days and three nights: a cabin at the mouth of Taroko Gorge with a guided trail walk, sunrise at Qixingtan, then a bike ride through the rice fields of Chishang.
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Peggy, who lives in Banqiao, wanted a phone-free weekend with her daughter. On HAOTIVA she booked a pottery wheel class for Saturday and a tea-picking experience for Sunday, and discovered that craft classes have one rule unlike other experiences: you have to wait for your piece.
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Ray, a photographer living in Xindian, and his girlfriend Nina wanted to learn to surf before summer ended. On HAOTIVA they got a clear picture of the lesson's intensity and requirements, and of what happens if the weather turns bad.
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Amber, a product manager in Nangang, eats out for every meal. She spent a week logging her meals with photos in HAOTIVA Nutrition to see what she was really eating, before deciding whether to have a dietitian plan with her one-on-one.
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Sandy, who works in sales at an ad agency, was still answering client messages in the middle of the night. On HAOTIVA, she found a 3-day, 2-night retreat for a small group of 12, and for the first time, figured out how the rules for a retreat differ from those for a regular room booking.
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Ken, a middle-school PE teacher in Yonghe, is running a half marathon in October. He uses his sleep to decide each day's intensity, then lays out the week after the race in three stages — contrast bathing, a sports massage and a quiet stretch of sleep — and picks a few challenges that fit the plan.
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Grace runs a dental clinic in Kaohsiung and usually plans every minute for her patients. This time, she just wanted to be the one being taken care of. On HAOTIVA, she put a villa in Bali, massages and a sunrise yoga class in the rice fields together into a two-night trip.
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Vivian, a financial analyst in Nangang, often has a tight lower back. She first let the site get to know her through a 30-second quiz, then found a small-group reformer class of up to 6 people on the schedule, and finally used a month-long challenge to make the habit stick.
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Leo, a back-end engineer who works in Xinyi District, wanted to start lifting but was afraid of getting hurt by bad form. Starting from the idea of using corporate benefit points, he followed it all the way to the assessment process of a personal training class, its time slots and spots, and its cancellation rules.
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Mei Ling works in compliance in Singapore and comes to Taipei on business every quarter. This time, she used HAOTIVA to pick a design hotel with a 24-hour gym, then fit an aromatherapy massage into the evening after her meetings wrapped up.
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Joanne works shifts at a hospital and can only take time off on weekdays. On HAOTIVA, she lined up a private onsen room, a private bath and the next morning's yoga class in one go, then took her mom, who doesn't get out much, to Yilan for a night.
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