On My Way．Taipei Hostel & Backpacker — Hotel in Taipei

The staff are friendly and helpful when needed.

Most spaces are pretty clean, and seem to be regularly cleaned. High touch areas need more attention.

The kitchen and below ground common spaces are well set up for the most part, considering the space constraints. The location is helpful, a short walk from Beitou MRT and day/night market.

The showers and toilets are clean, but tiny and difficult for tall people. The curtains to the bathrooms definitely need to be cleaned, as they're visibly very disgusting, and I hated having to touch them to pass through.

The dorm mattresses are thin, and ok for a couple nights, however the bunks are cheaply built and rock around hugely under any movement, especially from the top bunk, meaning it's like trying to sleep through an earthquake when the person up top moves even a little. They need to be built better, or at least bolted to the walls to limit shaking. The bunk curtains also need to be cleaned more regularly.

The “lockers” in the rooms are absolutely worthless, as they can simply be pulled open with little force, even after locking. Made worse by the fact that nobody locks the dorm doors, so I do not recommend leaving anything of value in the rooms.

Sadly, it's quite an antisocial hostel. It seems the guests are all “hotel people” unfamiliar with hostel life, too poor to afford Taipei hotels, and too ignorant to engage in respectful hostel behaviour. Everyone treats the space selfishly like their own room, not a shared sleeping space, and even in the common rooms, people sit individually and engrossed in devices, not even open to limited socialising. Part of this can be a language issue, or dislike of foreigners, but this doesn't explain why nobody else seems to talk to each other.

Staff need to enforce mask wearing for sick people. They don't seem to act on sick people coughing all over everyone. One disgusting man coughed in the check-in common room for hours, without even covering his mouth, and nobody told him to wear a mask, despite me actively putting mine on as an example of social etiquette. Since COVID, this should be completely unacceptable behaviour.

I really struggled to get sleep here because of the rude guests, disrespectfully treating it like their own private hotel, and felt generally unwelcome by everyone except some of the really nice staff. I was the only western guest it seemed.

I don't blame the hostel for bad guests, just letting future guests make an educated choice on where to stay.

Note for guests… if you snore, do NOT book a shared sleeping space (dormitory). This is terrible behaviour, rampant in Taiwan. It is disrespectful and you have no right to keep others awake all night while you get rest. Book a private room, or just...

On my way hostel||It was my first day arriving the On my way hostel Taipei and it was also my first day in Taiwan. The staffs kindly introduced us to all the interesting places and lovely food around the hostel. They even took us to a tour to the night market near to the hostel and told us detailly which food truck they recommend. And their recommendations were really tasty. The night market is just 5 minutes’ walk away from the hostel and there were already around 40 food trucks and little food shop. It can already give you a brief idea how Taiwan food cultures is. I personally like the smelly tofu in the night market (but not everyone can accept the strange smell of it.) There are also a drink store which is very famous in this area and have another branch also in the near. I have tried the lemon juice which is not bad. Drinks like this is also a part of many Taiwanese’s everyday life. As this area of Taipei is mainly local people, we can experience the local culture of Taiwan even just a walk around the hostel, which I find really good. || ||Back to the inside of the hostel. Once you walk into the Hostel it is the lobby with a reception, a little mini bar and a a chatting area thing. Around the chatting area there are different little things like postcards (which you can get with only 30 with TWD), travel books and information leaflets of around this area and around Taiwan. With the postcards and those lovely little things, it made up a really nice and warm environment. There are snacks also that we can buy with a few penny and tableware which we can freely use. || || ||Then on the left there is a stair to the basement. It is a little relaxing area and living room with television, books and variety of board games. People can spend time together with other guests and enjoy the time together in the basement.|||| ||||Back to the lobby and get up the stairs, on the first floor is mixed room for both men and women and on the second floor is the girls room which is female only. || ||I stay at the eight-people female room on the second floor which look generally like this. Every bed are equipped with pillow, a quilt, a cabinet and a locker. The bed is really comfy and warm.|||| |||| ||||One special thing that I love in the girls´ floor which is the litte warm gifts corner in the girls´toliet. Which was equipped by sanitary products, makeup remove cotton, hand and body cream, hair dryers and even cotton swabs. Which I find really warm and useful. |||| ||||Overall I really like the whole hostel which make me feel really warm...

This is the first time encounter this kind of hostel that restrict on aircon temperature in the room.||This few days is super hot in taiwan, i had sunburnt in just 1 day roaming outside for few hours. When checked in, the room aircon is not turned on, only a small standing fan is turn on. my bed light bulb probably too old n is very dim n making buzzing sound. Feedback to the staff in charge and nothing was done, he replied aircon can only set to 25 degree or above due to company policy, any lower will require the rest of the other 4 room mates to be agreeable!!|This is total absurb! The entire night sweating in my bed n blessed that i only book 1 night. The temperature indicate in the airocn Led indicate the room temperature is constantly at 26-27 degree. It rarely at 25 degree even the aircon set so.||I went out for dinner and back, the aircon still remain at 25degree. Either the rest of the room mates dont agree or the staff did not even make an effort to ask. i doubt is the former. The entire common area (narrow staircase n outside the room) does not have any aircon either!! This place is really stuffy!!!||Mattress is very thin, unless you like tatami style with your back touches the platform.||Hot shower is not hot either, 50% cold 50% hot, the temperature is inconsistent in my 2 bath here.||Laundry is payable, although 30nt each for wash n dry is insignificant, most hostel n hotel in taiwan provide free laundry appliance for guest to use.||Left baggage is just tuck in one corner, anyone can throw their bags n pick up any with no supervision.||WIFI available free at common area, it is still free inside the room but hardly to get a bar, slide your bed curtain n you get none.||Location is good, 5-6mins to beitou mrt, 4mins to market. When rain, less than 10 stalls in night market.||1 star for the location n friendly staff although did not help anything. This 1 star is already very kind to them.||Highly recommend to look for other hostels. Their company policy is...