Location

The hotel is located in New Taipeh City.  Within 5-10 mins of the hotel, you have access to various transportation hub, the High Speed rail, Taiwan rail, local bus station, the intercity bus station and Taipeh metro.  As for shopping there are the malls, local shops and about 15 mins walk from the hotel a night market.  The night market is not very big, but more than enough to enjoy the food and different stalls selling different things.  Besides that High Speed rail (where a transfer is neded from the airport to the station), there is a direct bus service from TPE to the Bus station (stops at the intercity station - and is about 10-15 mins walk to the hotel).  It was relatively ok to walk from either of these to the hotel via the sidewalk.  As for food, there are lots of food options around the hotel - local simple food to more high end.

Check In

I arrived in the morning, and even though I had requested for early check-in during the reservation process, the room was sadly not available.  Upon arriving at the hotel, there was no one at the front desk and I was helped immediately.  Since my room was not ready, I was invited to enjoy the lounge until my room was ready.  I was already pre-informed that they will try their best to upgrade me to a suite especially due to my long stay period.  

Room

After a quick bite at the lounge and leaving for my meeting, upon return to the hotel later in the afternoon, the room was ready and I was upgraded to a suite.  The suite was well appointed with a nice living room which had a table for 2 to dine if desired, a small bar area and a separate bedroom which consisted of a sizeable work area.  The suite was spacious with a modern touch.

There was a guest toilet close to the entrance.  The main bathroom was large with a walk-in shower, separate toilet area and a bath tub.  There was a dual wash basin.  Toiletries were the standard Crabtree and Evelyn set.  The shower was very good, with good temperature and pressure - to note, very well designed as there was no water leakage after a shower to the dry area.  The bath tub had a good rack to place your book or tablet during usage - the tub filled up fast.  Toilet was with the Japanese automated bidet/seat.

As expected, there were lots of USB and international plugs around the room.  Wifi was stable and relatively fast.  There was a TV in the living room and the bedroom.  For the living room, the TV was attached to a Bose Sound Bar - which was very good.  Furthermore both TV were mulitmedia TV - which had additional Apps such as YouTube, etc.  

There was also 3 large wadrobe in the suite, 1 in the main room, and 2 in the bedroom.  

Executive Lounge

The Executive lounge was large, divided into two separate rooms by the kitchen area and also a patio area.  The lounge served mainly breakfast and the evening drinks.  Outside of these hours, they had small bites and pastries.  

Breakfast choices was quite good with a nice balance of spread between western and eastern options - including curries and naan.  There was also a cook to make to-order eggs and noodles.  For me the selection in the lounge was more than sufficient therefore I did not visit the main restaurant - which I assume would have more options.

As for the evening offerings, the selection was very good, with finger food, starters, 3-4 hot mains, 1 soup (normally chinese based soup) and desserts.  The selection of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks were more than sufficient.  

The lounge also had a good selection of reading materials.  Although the hotel does indicate that the NY Times can be read when connected to the hotel network, I only managed to read up to the maximum of 3 articles before being required to subscribe.  So not sure how this is supposed to work.

The lounge staff were very friendly and they can mainly do all tasks and requests as the main front desk.  

Gym

The gym was located at the top floor (as the swimming pool).  The gym was on the smaller side.  There are lockers in the gym area (though I doubt it is used).  There is no attendant and access is only by key card.  On my arrival day, I had wanted to freshen up with a shower in the gym, but was not succsessful as there the hot water was not working.  I had not idea what was wrong with it (I suspect this is also why the pool was cold).

For me the only small complain of the gym equipments is the exersize ball which was on the smaller side.  It would have been nicer with a slightly larger one.

Pool

The pool area is located at the rooftop of the hotel with a view of the city.  The pool area (and the building) is shared with the next door hotel, Caesar Park.  However one of the most dissapointing point of the hotel and especially since it is located with a beautiful view, is that the pool temperature was cold - I believe it was maybe around 16 deg C.  It was basically a white elephant.  

Overall

All in all, a very well appointed hotel with very good service and friendly staff.  For me, even though it is located in New Taipeh city, I still find it to be a good location for sightseeing activities due to the convenience of the different transportation options.  Will certainly return to this property if I need to be in the area again.