jordychen

Besides Villa 32, you may consider Maple Garden Landis Resort Beitou near Villa 32. I had stayed at Summer Villa with all inclusive service (dinner,breakfast,public bath, MRT pickup service). You may enjoy personal hot spring in the 4 different spacious Villas.
Here is my Maple Landis photo gallery.

For business, my favorite one is always Sherwood. For the warm service like home. They had renovated their rooms in a elegant style;the price is reasonable.
Sherwood room

Speaking of "renovated rooms", Royal Taipei (right next to Grand Formosa) had just completed their renovation by some famous Japanese design team.I think it's fantastic.

I don't recommend Westin. There's some MRT construction right in front and the service+food are not that good in Taipei.

And you're right. I don't think right now any business hotels in Taipei provide the standard quality as FS, RC, MO, St Regis and Pen. Eclat is good but just too small.

instyleprincess

MO is still in construction stage, so is FS (they already have a land, and there's construction going on, but no further news)

W Hotel Taipei will probably open soon

BENLEE

Oh my, I can't help but chuckle The chinese name of this hotel is actually 台北老爺大酒店. BTW, the website isnt working.

Thanks for the tip. I'm a light sleeper so noise is always a concern.

What do you think of the Regent Grand Formosa?

jordychen

I like it much better than Hyatt, Shangri-la & Westin.
spacious rooms,Regent Galleria DFS,famous spa, great food & restaurents, TAI PAN Residence...plus night life and some famous spots: De Chuan Tea、
SPOT-Taipei Film House、Rose Historic Site

Kindly see my photo collection for corner suite / SPA room / superior room
Some bad quality pics (Today)

asianmom

As already mentioned, Villa 32 and Maple Landis is reasonably good for a hot spring resort, but I also like the Spring Park Urai in Wulai ,about 50min's drive from Taipei.
The MO is definitely happening, no news of the FS though.

asianmom

Yes, like I have mentioned in your post in another forum starting with T, the grand rooms are indeed VERY dated, can't figure out why the management never realised that; but the grand deluxe are reasonably young.The new rooms,(renovated some 2 years back, that is) are located on the last 2 storeys of the hotel, mostly suites.

Personally, I still prefer Hyatt over Regent despite their 'aged' rooms, probably because of their stella service and location, I guess.Oh, and the food too. I love ALL their restaurants.

BENLEE

Thanks everyone for your feedback. In the end, I decided on the Grand Formosa Regent. Hope it's the right choice.

I generally try to avoid Hyatt hotels whenever I can ( unless it's a Park Hyatt ) due to repeating past bad experience when staying at this chain in other places. Also, the Hyatt Taipei hotel rooms looks really old.

instyleprincess

Grand Formosa is a good hotel but avoid their restaurants!!!
I hope you'll have a great time in TPE

BENLEE

Thanks instyleprincess! BTW, what's wrong with their restaurants? Poor food? Poor service? I've always been impressed with the huge selection of restaurants in most Taiwan 5star hotels. Usually 5 or 6 or more.

instyleprincess

No problem! Grand Formosa (and other so-called 5* hotels too) tried to boost up their revenue by reducing the meal rates or gives out free coupons etc, so their restaurants could look like some crazy night market, especially on weekends, and yes bad food and bad service.

There are lots of good restaurants near Grand Formosa and in Taipei, so I'd highly recommend that you eat outside of the hotel, TPE is small city so close distance to anywhere. I'm sure the hotel concierge can come up a list of restaurants that suit your preference. Have fun!

paul2

Hi Instyleprincess, is Sherwood your only recommendation for Taipei?

Colleagues of mine have stayed on their last two trips at The Landis and really liked it (although they did mention weddings & large meetings when interrogated by me!). The distance from Taipei wasn't a concern as the production facility they were visiting was outside the city.

instyleprincess

Hi Paul, I've only been to Landis once due to its inconvenient location (need to get there by car or taxi, and there's not much to do there), their french and chinese restaurants are very famous though. But what I've heard, The Landis is highly regarded.

I like Sherwood, good location and neighborhood to go around, great food, and lots of great restaurants around the hotel too. I've never stayed there, but the service I received at their restaurants and at their events, they're really good.

paul2

Thanks Instyleprincess. I will suggest Sherwood for their next trip if it is convenient for their meetings. I think IIRC that The Landis was briefly a GHM hotel or was planned to be.

instyleprincess

I didn't know about the GHM....but The Landis is managed by a highly regarded hotelier, probably one of the most famous hoteliers in Taiwan, very well respected in several areas.

The Landis and The Sherwood are both Leading Hotels of the World I think.

splatnz

Any updates on this thread? I usually stay at the Grand Hyatt in Taipei but the rooms are pretty tired so am thinking of trying somewhere else.

Important things for me are room quality, possibly a club level, located close to an MRT, a nice pool is a bonus.