Guest House TaiwanMex Reviews

Not a totally honest owner. They told me one price on the phone when i reserved, and a different price when I arrived. When I refused to pay more money and said I would leave, then they gave me the original room I reserved. Be careful. Because this hostel is so small, many rooms near each other, it is the nosiest hostel in the world!! I am serious! you must be prepared to sleep a 2:00AM in the morning, and wake up at 8:00Am. Earlier than 2AM or After 8AM it is literally impossible to sleep.

Really nice hostel. Stayed here for one night and it's super close to the train station. Easy to find (directions are very clear). Staff are nice and the beds are comfortable and place is very nice.

Great place to stay for your buck. The staff is friendly and willing to help you out. Nice people work here and it is a very convenient location. No complaints here. We ended up staying longer than expected. It is just a very easy place to stay.

Probably your best budget option in Taipei!! It is indeed not the best place to stay in Taipei but as some people mention in previous reviews definitely not a terrible place. Our room was very clean (though small). Security is fine too since you need 3 keys for 3 locked doors to get to your room. Staff has indeed little English but hey, you're travelling right?

The rooms are very small. The hallway outside our room was the kitchen, it was difficult to enter our room if someone was in the kitchen. We were woken during the night by guests using the kitchen. There was no contact with the staff, very unfriendly place.

Like the location, very near to the Taiwan Main Station, room are small but no complain for the tariff you paid for, staff not too well verse with Mandarin so is quite difficult to get proper informations/tips/suggestions/advises. Lobby is small to hang about.

Definitely no "vibe" in the hostel so if you're looking for a fun "backpacker" place, this is not it. Staff wasn't very helpful - had to ask about everything - offered no information when checking in. Overall, it's fine if you're just looking for a place to sleep (although not the cleanest, it was OK) and you're pretty self-sufficient.

I didn't remember exactly how much I was supposed to pay at the hostel (according to the email sent to me), but instead of TWD4050, the owners charged us TWD4500. The difference isn't huge but this is still cheating. The staff and owners could hardly speak English so communication was a tad of an issue. Cleaning wasn't done every other day, let alone every day. Yuck. There were mosquitoes even though the place was on the 9/F!

The staff was extremely unprofessional and nearly impossible to communicate with. They were never at the front desk, and even when I called they didn't answer the phone. When I first arrived, they didn't have a record of my reservation, even though I had received confirmation from hostelworld.com and my credit card had already been charged.

While the hostel is in a great location, easy to find and kept clean, the rooms are VERY small (smaller even than what I am used to in Japan) the beds are very hard - like sleeping on the floor, and the whole venue, especially the rooms, is very hot and stuffy. Perhaps some more comfortable seating in the common area would be nice too. But over all good value for money, although I wouldn't recommend sleeping on those beds for too many nights.