Amateurs, they still left about 200 days of work in the calendar!
If my data sources are correct, that would produce a four day holiday in 2026 with Mid-Autumn festival on Friday 25th September, and Confucius’ Birthday/Teachers’ Day on Monday 28th September.
Constitution Day/‘Chiang Kai Shek’s Christmas Day’ will fall on a Friday in 2026, meaning a potential 3 day weekend for Christmas and then another one starting New Year’s Day 2027.
In fact, all holidays in 2026, including the new ones, fall either next to a weekend or on one, so all will produce 3 or 4 day weekends.
With this and the addition of “Little New Year”/The Night Before C̶h̶r̶… e̶r̶… Chinese New Year’s Eve, I see the total removal of any need for makeup days on Saturdays. I don’t see any marked on that calendar, but then neither have the weekdays been shown that will be days off to mark the holidays that fall on a weekend, so that doesn’t really mean anything yet.
(I personally preferred the recently abandoned system of making four/five day weekends even if we had to work makeup days on Saturdays. Of course, the potential five three day weekends and one [or potentially two including Children’s Day/“Tomb Sweeping Festival”!] four day weekend(s) in 2026, plus the sudden potential extra two long weekends this year plus Xmas Day will do for now! I can hope that extra long weekends still make a comeback in 2027 and 2028.) 
And last but certainly not least, pleased to see this in your linked article:
The legislation also changes the current one-day holiday for indigenous peoples’ annual ceremonies to a three-day holiday chosen by indigenous persons based on the ceremonies of their respective tribe.
A better approach would be to adopt a one-for-one system in which certain holidays are fixed to fall on Mondays. This would more adequately balance the scales of economic operations and holiday-related consumer spending, offsetting losses in overall economic output and mitigating any negative impacts.
As they are neither too long or too short, three-day weekends are well-suited to address the deficit in domestic tourism caused by the public’s strong preference for traveling abroad. The US and Japan have long had similar legislation in place that has proved quite effective, and Taiwan could easily follow their example.
The practice of shifting holidays to create three-day weekends began with the US’ 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Japan adopted similar regulations, known as the Happy Monday System. The purpose of the US act was to stimulate the US tourism industry by creating several longer weekends — some examples being that the third Monday of January each year is Martin Luther King Jr Day, which honors the civil rights leader, while the second Monday of October marks Columbus Day to commemorate the explorer’s discovery of the Americas.
The KMT asserted that Workers’ Day should be a national holiday for all sectors. The US observes its Labor Day on the first Monday of September each year. Last year’s Labor Day weekend saw airport security screenings across the US hit record highs, marking the busiest ever Labor Day holiday for airports in history. Businesses large and small seized the final wave of business opportunities before summer’s end — an excellent example of the overall benefits of three-day weekends.
Japan’s Happy Monday System, established in 1998, also moved a number of public holidays to Mondays to create several three-day weekends. This year, Japan has a total of nine holidays of three or more consecutive days, with five three-day weekends in the second half of the year alone.
I don’t know they just keep doing really dumb assed shit. I guess most of them don’t care about holidays themselves as they just take off whenever.l so didn’t even pay attention to the actual dates or how they were spread out.
For instance there’s not one public holiday in the whole of Summer…still. But they have 4x3 day weekends from end of Sept to end of Oct. Make a fucking effort at planning things properly fucking numbskulls !
There were originally six three-day weekends this year, with two of them — the Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ten National Day — in October. Now that Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28 and the anniversary of the Battle of Guningtou on Oct. 25 are to be recognized, there would be four three-day weekends in the short span of just 30 days — a serious disparity.
After the amendment passed its third reading, KMT Legislator Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) asked whether some of the new holidays could be spread out into November, demonstrating the legislation was passed hastily and carelessly. The blue and white coalition is bringing back old holidays, aiming to use them as a tool to reap political benefits.
Last year I took some short holidays during the Summer here and Autumn..was dead as doornails in many places as many locals go overseas for their vacation now . They really need to put some thought into what they are doing while also giving people breaks through the year and in the hot hot summer.
Green Island seemed busy last summer. Easy enough to get B&B reservations, boat tickets, and restaurant seats, but definitely not dead. I can see why many go overseas, though, because you can stay in some really nice places for the same price in SE Asia.
Yeah, not a single day in June, July, August.
Maybe green island but the rest of Taitung seemed quite dead overall and I visited it a few times, same with Kenting and of course Hualien business has been decimated with the earthquakes and was still poor since end of covid anyway.. It’s almost all weekend business even in the summer is my impression. That’s not a strong tourist market. I was there on weekdays and crickets in lots of places, that’s if they even opened ! I guess taitung has the balloon festival gets a bit busier that time. Anyway overall apart from the hits such as Alishan or Taipei city or Jiufen it’s so dead compared to Japan or HK or SEA etc.
And yet the hoteliers refuse to lower their rates.
It’s all weekend business and the rest of the week you can get good deals in regular places but not the more luxury ones.
I just did a week in Pai at a resort for 1000 a night. Would have been 3500 in Taiwan.
Seriously. I dont blame locals who go abroad for vacations. Hotel rates here are way too high for average person. even average rooms are no less than 3.5k.
The hotel room rate is not the problem, value for money is the problem and having something interesting to do or decent facilities. 3.5k indeed would not be expensive here at all or anywhere else either really. But it needs to be better than. Literal box with a crappy bed and one chair and facilities or pool or whatever.
Then it will hit the weekend and decidedly mid tier places like the bike hotel in Kenting will go for 6k a nite easily.
With labour shortages, one wonders if this unhappy situation will improve any time soon.
Guy
They went up during covid because nobody felt safe leaving Taiwan. And then they never came back down. Oh, and the breakfast included is not always a given now (but maybe I’m wrong about this because it was included the last two places I stayed at in Taiwan).
Breakfast is not included in many places even when they blatantly lie and say it is, this is mainly an issue with minshu BNBs.. Miserable practices. When it is included it is often dicey . We did have a seperate thread on this but good to get the complaints out of the system again 
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Hey you get back to the coal mine how dare you enjoy yourself and report back here, the cheek.
I had to look that up. That’s way up north. I really need to make a trip to Thailand again. Bangkok for a day or two then Koh Samui for a few days would be ideal for me (my longtime German friend has a gym there and he’s there all summer).
I was “working”.
More Israeli girls than New York in the Bat Mitzvah season.
I was just reading the green island thread (great diving pics) and it seems you may have misremembered how busy it was.