NYS LOFT HOTEL — Hotel in Taipei

I really enjoyed the stay here. If you’re not on a “budget,” I would splurge for the private bathroom. Let’s be honest, it only set me back $65-70 a night which is still a great deal considering the cleanliness and location. If you choose to pay $30-40 and complain about sharing a bathroom, you have no right to complain.

Other pros: -Clean and modern looking interior -Nice large common area that was very homely -Nice coffee/espresso/milk tea machine and also water, orange juice, and plum tea in the common area -VERY friendly front staff -Comfy bed, lockbox with code in room -Cleaning staff very quiet and you don’t hear them chatting/rustling down the hall if you’re sleeping in (cannot say this for the other hotel I stayed at) -Building has two elevators so you never have to wait long to go up/down -literally dozens of street food vendors and restaurants and snacks and convenience stores very close by

Oddities: -Lockbox not secured to wall or anything, they could possibly take the entire thing with your valuables -AC was a little weird, it was either too cold and temperature setting didn’t seem to work (huge YMMV) -WiFi okay...

Pros: The hotel is located near Taipei Main Station, there are a lot of eateries and 24hr convenience stores in the surrounding. Low price for private room (though with shared toilet and bathroom). The common area is quite nice.

Cons: Rooms have very bad mouldy smell. You will get use to it after a while, but once you return to your room from the outside, the smell will hit you again. Rooms are quite small and dimly lit with no window (mostly). Toilets and shower rooms are on 2 different ends of the building but weirdly, not segregated by sex, which is extremely inconvenient (especially for females). Maintenance is bad, a lot things are broken - free drinking machine, free PCs, washing machine, bidet etc (see my pictures). The common area is quite nice but it is mostly empty with no atmosphere.

I wouldn't recommend this place just for the mouldy smell alone. But if you want a private room and can't find any place cheaper (like what happened to me) and don't mind the smell and all the cons, then this place is...

The common area is great and location is superb, but that's it. I can't recommend it. The double bed is tiny, I'm 173cm and legs stick out the end. The room is 3m x 2.5m, basically the smallest I ever experienced. The linens are made of nylon, not cotton, so it feels like sleeping in plastic, and the pillows are super thin. The toilets are beside reception so if you wanna use them in the night time you have to walk through brightly lit corridors which will affect your sleep. Also neighbouring rooms will be doing the same thing so you'll hear their loud doors with auto locks opening and closing all night. I got barely any sleep at all. My advice is get a better more spacious hotel anywhere on the metro line, cause the metro system...