Must-see hotels in Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

  • Sanasai Inn

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    This budget options wins on location, quiet yet close to the port and with a garden that stares across the road to the Shilang Snorkelling Area. The dorms…

  • Frog & Pheasant B&B

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    For a middle-of-nowhere, agricultural vibe, head 6km north of Luye where this neat if simply adorned Spanish-style villa is set amid fields around 400m…

  • Fa'ai Homestay

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Eight ensuite rooms in two different properties are relatively simple with older bathrooms at prices that drop to almost dormitory levels outside peak…

  • Rover Hostel

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Lanyu's hippest hostel features a black motorbike as part of the decor in a common room which feels more like a bar than a lounge. The dorms are sex…

  • Hualien Sugar Factory Guesthouses

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    The 48 rebuilt wood-cabin rooms, originally workers' residences for the Hualien Sugar Factory, now offer comfortable visitor accommodation. Interiors have…

  • Star-Moon Hotel

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Fair value by Green Island standards, this boxy place is less dowdy than the frontage appears, with 23 rooms that have been partly revamped with elements…

  • YT31

    Hualien

    Decor-wise this very central guesthouse is the love child of Baudelaire and Hello Kitty. Each room is different, but you can expect colour overload, arty…

  • What Inn

    Hualien

    For adventurous travellers, sleeping in this unique budget place is like becoming part of a piece of performance art set in a semi-salvaged old cottage…

  • New Life Hot Springs Resort

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    This friendly, woodland lodge-style resort high above Antong has airy rooms with lashings of varnished pine panelling and villas with their own stone…

  • Piao Yang Dulan

    Central East Coast

    Upper market guesthouse Piao Yang stylishly incorporates elements of indigenous art into spacious contemporary rooms that are bright and comfortably well…

  • Jack's Inn

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    This long-standing hotel's eponymous English-speaking owner, Jack Lee, has plenty of experience with foreigners and is a well organised fixer for a wide…

  • Parkview Hotel

    Hualien

    Attractions here are the spa, climbing wall, squash courts and a large swimming pool in the garden. The Parkview was Hualien's first five-star hotel when…

  • Blue Safari Diving Centre Hostel

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Next door to its dive shop, Blue Safari has a well-maintained 10-bed mixed dorm above a communal sitting room. There are no lockers, but the timber bunks…

  • Kuan YunYouth Activity Centre

    Taroko National Park

    A remote but very handy overnight break for cyclists crossing Taiwan via Rte 8, this hostel sits at an altitude of 2374m, offering mattress-on-floor dorms…

  • Slow Island Hostel

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Making up for somewhat cramped living spaces, this new, sociable midstrip hostel has hammocks and a minipool in its handkerchief of courtyard garden. The…

  • Green 520

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    If you don't mind spending the night surrounded by Hello Kitty or Peter Rabbit, this mildly kitsch, fairy tale-themed hostel on Gongguan's main street…

  • Enhui Mingsu Zijia

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    For full-on cultural immersion and budget prices, take one of four neat-but-basic rooms above a local family kitchen. It's architecturally bland and betel…

  • Ruisui Hot Springs Hotel

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Almost 100 years old, but without any great historic flavour, Ruisui's original hot-spring guesthouse has accommodation that's as basic as the bathing,…

  • Tienhsiang Youth Activity Centre

    Taroko National Park

    If you want to sleep in the heart of the park and don't mind a dated, institutional vibe, this place is perfectly bearable if far from a bargain.

  • Lüshui

    Taroko National Park

    Basic, free-of-charge camping is permitted on two small grassy areas, down a short flight of steps towards the river from the main road at Km170.7.

  • Jici Beach Campground

    Central East Coast

    At the southern end of Jici Beach, camping platforms are sheltered under wooden frames and have access to a separate set of bathing facilities to the ones…

  • Heliu Campground

    Taroko National Park

    Campsite offering 12 board-floored, bivouac spaces for tents. Toilets and cold showers available.

  • Zhen Wang Zi Hotel

    Chenggong

    It's dated and simple, with rucked carpets, chipped tiles and ageing furniture, but the place is friendly and has about the cheapest ensuite beds you'll…

  • Catholic Hostel

    Taroko National Park

    Rooms are old and basic and management seem pretty disinterested, but it's right in the heart of the national park with a fine perch overlooking a sweep…

  • Lanyu Summer Homestay

    Eastern Taiwan & Taroko National Park

    Simple and plain with rather low ceilings but cheap, well located and with sea views even from the bunk bed dormitory.