Heading to Taiwan soon? Lucky you – even more so now as every tourist entering Taiwan can enter the Lucky Land lottery for free, organized by Taiwan Tourism.
Celebrating over 6 million tourists coming to Taiwan, tourists can win prizes such as NT$5,000 accommodation vouchers or pre-loaded EasyCards or iPass cards. Since it was launched in 2023, over 3 million travelers have already played for free.
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Any foreign independent traveler can enter the Taiwan Lucky Land prize draw at various Taiwan airports and the Lucky Land promotion in Taiwan runs until the end of June 2025. Repeat Taiwan visitors can even play for a second time on their return journey to Taiwan.
From a step-by-step guide on how to play Taiwan Lucky Land once you arrive at the airport to the pre-registration procedures, here is our ultimate guide for tourists on how to take part in Taiwan’s Lucky Land draw for free.
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Who is eligible to play the Taiwan Lucky Land Draw?
Free entry to the Lucky Land promo is open to anyone visiting Taiwan from 1 May 2023 to 30 June 2025.
Lucky Land is open to any Foreign independent travelers who hold overseas passports (not part of ROF), have stays in Taiwan between 3 to 90 days and are not part of a tour group.
One prize draw entry per traveller is allowed per visit to Taiwan – there is also a temporary promotion allowing repeat visitors to enter one more time if they return to Taiwan between 1 October and 31 December 2024.
Note you must pre-register to take part before you arrive in Taiwan – we’ll tell you how shortly.
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What can you win in the Taiwan Lucky Land Draw?
There are some big prizes to be won in the Lucky Land promo at Taiwan airports – although not everyone wins. Neither of us won when we recently took part in early October 2024 – boohoo!
When you register, you are given the choice of whether you want to enter for accommodation vouchers or prepaid cash-cards like iPass or EasyCards. We opted for the latter as we’d already sorted all of our accommodation for the whole trip.
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Main prizes to be won in the Lucky Land Draw
The Taiwan Lucky Land prizes and vouchers are as follows:
- Taiwan Accommodation Vouchers up to the value of NT$5,000 – approx £120 or $155 USD. These are valid for 90 days from you winning / entering the country. Note that hotel vouchers can only be used on an official Taiwan Tourism list of “Participated Accommodations” and their rates may be higher than you find online elsewhere.
- Pre-paid E-Ticket vouchers (EasyCard, iPass and iCash 2.0 card to the value of NT$5,000).
If entering the Lucky Land prize draw, we personally think you are best to go for the non-accommodation vouchers – the prepaid cash cards are practically accepted everywhere in Taiwan and like using cash.
Just be aware the maximum single-use limit for the EasyCard is NT$1,500 and NT$1,000 for the iPass – both also have a max cap spend of NT$3,000 a day. iCash 2.0 has no such limits.
Therefore the ‘best’ prize to win in the Lucky Land draw is the $NT5,000 iCash card – but hey, all the prices are good so be lucky!
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How to register for the Lucky Land Draw
There is one very important thing to remember when entering the Lucky Land Taiwan promotion – you MUST complete the initial application between 1 day and 7 days before arrival.
You cannot enter on the day of arrival or prior to the 7 days before you arrive.
To register for the Lucky Draw, head to the official Taiwan Tourism Lucky Draw registration form here >
You will need to enter the following details on the application form:
- Your name
- Passport number and nationality
- Your arrival airport and flight number / arrival time
- Departure details and length of stay
- Email address
- Your Lucky Land prize preference – accommodation vouchers or prepaid cash cards.
Once the Lucky Land application form is complete on the Taiwan Tourism site, you are emailed a QR code which you will need to show when you arrive at your designated Taiwan airport.
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Which Taiwan airports have Lucky Land Booths?
You can play the Lucky Land prize draw if you are flying into the following airports:
- Taipei Taoyuan International Airport
- Taipei Songshan Airport
- Kaohsiung International Airport
- Taichung International Airport
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Arriving in Taiwan – step by step guide to playing the Lucky Land Draw
We played the Lucky Land Draw at Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 1 in early October but the method is the same at all participating Taiwan airports.
Once you’ve cleared immigration, picked up your bags and gone through customs, you’ll see signposts in the arrival halls to the Lucky Draw booths.
Join the likely queues (don’t worry – they’ll move fast) and get the QR code you were sent by email ready on your phone.
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Once at the front of the queue, go to the next available tablet or TV screen and follow the instructions that appear on screen.
There are various language settings you can change on the Lucky Land game screen including English and Mandarin.
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All you do is scan your QR code on your phone in the window on the tablet – then a simple Lucky Land animation takes place (featuring the famous Taiwan bear in cartoon form).
On the tablet screen in front of you, a virtual token drops across the screen, which ultimately either falls into a ‘winning’ prize pot or a non-prize pot. The whole thing takes less than 30 seconds.
Alas neither of us won – however, if you are a Lucky Land winner, you then go to the desk next to the Lucky Land booth to claim your prize.
And so playing the Lucky Land prize draw in Taiwan is really as simple as that – good luck and happy travels in Taiwan!
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Important things to remember
- You must pre-register on the official Lucky Land site between 7 days to 1 day before you arrive in Taiwan.
- It can only be played at Taipei Taoyuan Airport, Taipei Songshan Airport, Kaohsiung Airport and Taichung Airport.
- The Lucky Land prize draw runs until 30 June 2025.
- If you’ve already booked all your accommodation, you’re better off choosing the pre-paid cards as a prize.
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