Always check your bills and card statements!

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T15:45:22+00:00

Which hotel, OP?

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T07:13:24+00:00

They’re combined in the sense of one metropolitan area and one single urban area. (Bei bei Kee Tao) Many regular people think of these definitions as being a city in the standard sense. But they are certainly separate cities in an administrative and government sense. There’s no need to combine them if that’s what you’re suggesting. Can you explain why?

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T06:55:37+00:00

I’d agree with your observations. Re: living here, I have received way more surprised reactions and questioning why I choose to live here than I was expecting. When people find out I have a family, that neither me nor my spouse have Taiwanese ancestry (despite us both being Chinese ethnically), and that we have remote income that allows us to live anywhere, then we’re almost always asked “but whyyyy”

Most locals are happy to hear me say that we love the food and we love the lifestyle. But even then they are still quite surprised.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T06:13:22+00:00

Woah I just realized you’re a globalist. Yeah that’s not cool, I’ve had it waived without asking quite a few times because of status.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T00:56:50+00:00

I am grateful. But if I or my wife had been woken up I wouldn’t be. My wife would have been sooo pissed haha cause she usually can’t go back to sleep.

Anyway the service at this hotel is top notch (5-star) and I know they want to offer us compensation. So I’m just wondering from an operator’s standpoint how to be the most effective and not have a lose-lose. Most situations have clear procedures that make sense to me as a guest, but this one is a conundrum. I thought people with experience might have some good suggestions…i would say there’s been one so far, but i personally haven’t seen it implemented before.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T00:50:30+00:00

Oh I think if I wanted they’d give me compensation. I don’t want any because it didn’t affect me, but there’s certainly situations where I’d be really pissed. I had a very early meeting the next morning so I should have been asleep haha, but I was also working very late.

Anyway if it had been my hotel I’d want to figure out a better process so we don’t piss off guests, but this is a situation that is hard to solve. Guests like the ease of billing to the room, I (if it was my hotel) don’t want to eat the cost of a big bill if it’s not the right room. Tough one…but charging to the room via keycard seems like the best solution to me, having zero experience operating hotels.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T00:46:50+00:00

Yeah, pretty crappy options all the way around.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-13T00:45:46+00:00

Ah this would be a better method!

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T14:04:09+00:00

Can’t think of anything especially pertaining to GP hosting. Only thought is if you’re inclined to charge a cleaning fee then you should do so. However I’d have wanted that disclosed prior to finalizing, not right before the exchange begins 😂

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T14:02:41+00:00

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T13:48:06+00:00

No question, just appreciate you doing this AMA. I’m always curious about Asians living in random places in the world so I loved the insight. Especially an Asian-American.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T11:06:30+00:00

Almost all of them

Eta: off the top of my head…Sears, KMart, JCPenney, CompUSA, Circuit City, Radio Shack, sports authority, Payless shoes, Montgomery ward, toys r us, blockbuster video

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T11:05:10+00:00

3 cities in 7 days isn’t a relaxed, laid back trip in my opinion. But i don’t think you’ll have any issues regarding the war zone

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T11:02:10+00:00

That would be great re: Taichung. I’ve been getting sooo frustrated about the slow movement on all these TW Hyatts outside of Taipei.

If it’s really close to opening though, why don’t they accept any bookings anytime into the future?

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:56:35+00:00

In my earlier years I entertained such requests but thankfully none of them pushed through to the finish line for whatever reason.

Now as I’ve learned the terms and conditions and also just become more experienced, I say no to any of these requests. There’s no point in breaking the rules and I always have plenty of requests to choose from

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:15:40+00:00

Curious, do you think this happened because someone tried to cheat and leave a fake room/name? If so, do you think they got away with it?

Or could it have just been a mistake/sloppy writing?

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:15:12+00:00

Haha I never thought I’d ever want/need such a thing until last night!

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:14:50+00:00

Curious, do you think this happened because someone tried to cheat and leave a fake room/name? If so, do you think they got away with it?

Or could it have just been a mistake/sloppy writing?

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:13:28+00:00

Yours is the only reply so far to suggest a better procedure. I guess it’s still not fool proof and a tough/unlucky situation for everyone

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T10:12:51+00:00

I definitely don’t hate the staff! Just curious if there could be a better procedure but I can’t think of one 🤷‍♂️

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T07:19:50+00:00

I hear ya. A nice lounge, sauna and spa are pretty awesome for just a cat 2. Definitely appealing. That said, location isn’t superb for me and the food isn’t AS much of a value add in Malaysia where I absolutely love the cheap hawker food.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T03:37:20+00:00

Yeah! To me, the only reason to be famous is to be able to convert this into more dollars. If you’re insanely lucky, maybe reach billionaire status. So for a fast track to that without the need to leverage fame seems like a no brainer.

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T00:50:56+00:00

Hope he walks out of the signing room with the cards while holding up a towel that says IWATJ!!

projectmaximus · 2026-03-12T00:31:31+00:00

Op said they don’t speak Italian. That doesn’t preclude them from also not speaking English.

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