Heads up: in one of the FB quarantine support groups someone posted that they stayed in a Jinshan villa converted to quarantine hotel.
Not only he had a hot spring bath tub on his balcony, overlooking a bamboo forest, but also a huge room -larger than my apartment- and high quality -and quantity- meals.
Pity he does not give the name but there must not be a lot of places in Jinshan.
I am going to Indonesia early Feb for business. Probably will do it at a 5 star hotel Indonesia’s quarantine requirements change constantly, I am probably looking at 10 nights when I depart.
Well the ,2800 ntd place is really nice, because it has decent food.
The room size I had in the quarantine facility too, however filled with another bed. Or last year in Taoyuan for 2800 was similar standard except the big window and shitty Vs nice food. And yeah food is really important if you’re stuck with nothing to do.
We spent our New Year there, beginning of 2022, we left to continue our quarantine in our home.
The price was expensive 15.000 NTD/night. I think it got even higher later, close to CNY but the fact that the government announced the 7+7 option, allowed us financially to be able to “invest” the money for the quarantine.
We did not regret at all the choice:
PROS
The staff was amazing even before we arrive to Taiwan with all the communication and arrangements.
Also the staff during our stay, accommodated (by Line messages) all our needs
The room was very spacious and bright
It “inside” the science park so it is pretty quiet in the night, although the room was quite all day long.
Soundproof was good (or the hotel was not so busy)
Because of the 2 floor arrangement, it was ok for me to work for some hours per day and especially in the night when our kid was going to bed (all light off though).
The bed was super comfortable and super wide so after the exhaustion of our total 18hrs flight (and almost no sleep) we really slept good the nights we stayed there.
It is biiiig so we could occupy our kid freely around, play, move etc. The stairs was a good exercise for him to climb them x20 times/day and consume some of his energy
CONS
The room/hotel is not as new as it looks like on their website. Needs renovation. If it was not for the quarantine purposes we would feel it is not value for money.
The room was clean but could be even more thoroughly cleaned (but the toilets, yes, 2 of them were super clean).
The quarantine food was too basic for 1.000NTD/person/day that they ask. After the 1st day, we cancelled the food service and we were ordering from foodpanda/ubereats.
All the quarantine process for us went super smooth and anyone we interacted with (authorities, hotel, taxi-drivers, hospitals etc), were super nice and supportive. The Hsinchu City Gov lady that was responsible to check on us, even asked us if we needed any special help as we had a small kid. Afterwards, in Kaohsiung, the lady from the local City Gov. the last day that she checked on us, even thanked us for all the info we were providing to her on how we experienced the quarantine. She said they receive so much “heat” and complaint every day during their daily communication with the travelers.
Anyway, I wish good luck to everybody coming back.
@BigDave , Just edited the post, it was 15.000NTD without the food (we had booked for 2 persons meals).
We were 3…
I know, the price is crazy, but really, if we could not find a room like the one we found we would postpone our arrival (had not been back for 3 years). If we did not pay they hotel, we would either need to pay lawyers or psychiatrists (7 days in a room with a super active 2,5 yo boy, not fun)… both not cheap!
I have been guilty of saving in the wrong places many times and if the difference between a great time and a terrible one is 60 odd k, it was probably worth it. Assuming it isn’t your last 60k.
Scary to hear that cleanliness is an issue in these hotels. Sort of defeats the purpose of putting people there for health reasons doesn’t it? Also, what if the room has bedbugs or something? Are they checking for things like this? Would they move you? It seems like such an absurd system and now they are going back to the 15 day in hotel and 7 at home?! Honestly it really sounds like you are paying to be put into prison.
Bedbugs was our main fear and the bed / bed-sheets cleanliness was the first we checked when we entered. All looked very clean and no issues.
Before we arrive, we had shipped to the room bottles-spray of alcohol/water mix and despite the tiredness of the trip, we sprayed/cleaned all the surfaces and even floor/carpet. It was then that we found dust, woman’s long hair in corners, the wooden handrail left a yellowsh dirt on the tissues (even if you disinfect, clean, unless you really scrap these surfaces will not be “clean”. That has to do with the material choice and the age of the hotel).
I guess if each one of us would clean the hotel room he/she enters, would definitely find some issues to complain…