Hostel with own room and bathroom in Taipei, under NT$10000?

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Anyone know of specific hostels where you can have your own room with a bathroom in Taipei, under NT$10000?

Thanks!!

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I do not but there are hotels that run around NT$15,000 per month. Never stayed in them so not sure on what to expect. One advertises in the Taipei Times regularly:

Senator Hotel
83 Chang An W Rd
Taipei

(02) 2558 6511

Its NT$15,000 per month with tv and bathroom or NT$5,000 per week.

If you search on Forumosa I am sure that there is info on hostels and cheap places to stay along with comments. I think someone has posted in the last six months about this place www.mandarinhostel.com

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Yes, I’ve checked out the rooms at mandarin and they are good. Clean, fairly spacious, the owners are a couple nice South African guys, and you only share the whole apartment with 3-4 other people (each person has their own room). It’s a good place to start when you first arrive in Taiwan.

They had one room with private bath but I think it was around NT12,000.

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[quote=“damafen”]I do not but there are hotels that run around NT$15,000 per month. Never stayed in them so not sure on what to expect. One advertises in the Taipei Times regularly:

Senator Hotel
83 Chang An W Rd
Taipei

(02) 2558 6511

Its NT$15,000 per month with tv and bathroom or NT$5,000 per week.

If you search on Forumosa I am sure that there is info on hostels and cheap places to stay along with comments. I think someone has posted in the last six months about this place www.mandarinhostel.com[/quote]

I stayed at the Senator for a week about 4 years ago and found it to be reasonably clean and convenient to the train station, 7-11, Starbucks and e-cafe. It’s across from Starbucks near the corner of Chang An and Cheng De. (Pardon my spelling if it’s a bit off.) I also know that a past colleague stayed there monthly at 15k. There are many other of these downtown hotels that will put you up for that amount. Most have a small fridge and daily linen change with a light cleaning. Some do weekly linen and cleaning. Most will want about 20k but I know from experience and from others that you can go down to 15. Awhile back someone was trying for 10 but I never heard if they found any place.

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Thanks everyone! Great info!! I guess it’s probably better to stay at a hostel when you first get to Taiwan instead of renting an apartment immediately huh?

I heard there was another hostel that was like YMCA, but not too sure about that one!

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hi jessccw

i stayed at the fortuna hostel for three weeks. it was very nice and clean and conveniently located near the taipower mrt station. it was us$18 per night for a private room or as low as us$4 for a room with 4 people. the bathroom is shared though. there is a kitchen and living room.

next month i am staying at happy family because i couldnt book a room at the fortuna that far in advance. it is us$13 a night for a private room, but still a shared bath.

i think it may be difficult to find a hostel with both a private room and a private bath. that would be possible in a hotel but for much more money.

hope this helps. enjoy taipei.

jm

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[quote=“JOHN MOSS”]hi jessccw

i stayed at the fortuna hostel for three weeks. it was very nice and clean and conveniently located near the taipower MRT station. it was us$18 per night for a private room or as low as us$4 for a room with 4 people. the bathroom is shared though. there is a kitchen and living room.

next month I am staying at happy family because i couldnt book a room at the fortuna that far in advance. it is us$13 a night for a private room, but still a shared bath.

I think it may be difficult to find a hostel with both a private room and a private bath. that would be possible in a hotel but for much more money.

thanks JM, are you gonna find your own place later on?
hope this helps. enjoy Taipei.

jm[/quote]

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hi jessccw,

i only vacation in taipei. i live in the usa.

this will be my second trip to taipei.

i am staying for the entire month of march, 2006.

i am very excited. i love taipei. i know several people there. some i met here in the us last summer, and some i met on my trip in 2005 when i spent 3 glorious weeks there.

have fun,

jm