Matsu
Perched just above Qiaozi village, this super-hospitable family hotel has four floors of luxurious modern rooms, all large with great beds, little…
Must-see hotels in Taiwan Strait Islands
Matsu
Combining character and comfort, each of the nine rooms is differently designed using elements of found wood and rock, and all have super-comfy beds and…
Matsu
From the camouflage paintwork, you might think this place was still an army lookout station. However, it has been stylishly repurposed with top-quality…
Penghu Islands
PH has everything you'd want in a hostel: comfy curtained bunks with international power points, big lockers, a spacious common room and kitchenette with…
Shuitou Village
Three of the loveliest traditional Fujian-style houses in the village centre are co-managed under one name (though not signposted in English). Each…
Penghu Islands
In a dazzlingly modern contrast to the surrounding old-world houses of Huazhou, Flowerhouse51 has two super stylish, sea-facing double rooms – one with a…
Kinmen
Arguably the loveliest B&B in attractive Zhushan, this traditional house is full of elegant Chinoiserie and quirky touches like bird-cage lamps. A shared…
Matsu
One of Nangan's most stylish properties, Dayspring uses arty, rectilinear minimalism to contrast with the natural setting surveyed by its large sweep of…
Kinmen
Tucked down a side lane in the centre of Jincheng, this stylish mini hostel has sturdy bunks in key-carded, sex-segregated dorms. Bathrooms are small but…
Matsu
One of few Qinbi stone-house homestays with fluent English-speaking management (Sammy), this place has five hotel-style rooms with enlarged windows,…
Penghu Islands
One of two pseudo-Greek houses on Chimei, the unmissable main building looks like a comic book caricature of a Santorini church complete with murals and…
Matsu
For total serenity and wonderful views across a hilltop lawn, it's hard to beat this well-equipped B&B that sits high above Hou'ao within the Peace…
West Frontier Guesthouse & Cafe
Kinmen
Six immaculately clean new rooms provide fine linens on super-comfy beds and balconies facing the sea (and China), four of them with dangling basket seats.
Penghu Islands
Right at the harbour, Calamari has sparkling new rooms, the three best presenting triple aspect views of the ferry port area. The hip decor sometimes puts…
Penghu Islands
Almost the last house in the village as you circle Jibei Island anticlockwise, Miracle Inn has plenty of low-key style, big terraces and a pleasant…
Matsu
Two of central Jinsha's most charming older homes now form this attractive guesthouse run by a caring host who can manage just a few words of spoken…
Shuitou Village
Incorporating an exclusive whisky boutique, this brand new three-storey building is built in a style that apes Kinmen's classic yanglou 'western houses'…
Kinmen
This friendly, well-appointed guesthouse has a reception and breakfast room on one side of Zhupu Road, but many of its most appealing rooms are in a…
Kinmen
With helpful English-speaking staff on reception and very fair pricing, the Quemoy's 100 neat and unpretentious rooms sell out fast. They come with a good…
Penghu Islands
Friendly hosts offer simple modern comforts behind a pseudo-antique facade in the heart of Magong's prettiest area. It's the first house on the left in…
Penghu Islands
Compared to the many more fanciful guesthouse buildings along the Shanshui strip, Bayhouse has a certain homey modesty. Helpful staff speak English, there…
Kinmen
This historic mansion in Zhushan was built in a fusion east–west style by emigrants who made their fortune in the Philippines. Rooms are neatly renovated,…
Penghu Islands
In the centre of Magong's historic district, this guesthouse has two well-appointed doubles and one quad in an elegant, faux-vintage residence decorated…
Kinmen
Overflowing with character, this old house, with comfortable rooms themed by season, lies on the rise directly above the main Shanhou Folk Culture Village…
Penghu Islands
With its blue-domed top-knot and raised, semi-rural location above Nanhu town, Thera Inn is a very distinctive eight-room B&B with owners who can organise…
Kinmen
Despite minor signs of wear, La Place's 20 rooms retain a sense of designer-casual style with intentionally off-beam mirrors and semi-spiritual aphorisms…
Matsu
This backpacker hostel occupies a fine old Fujian-style stone house with a mixture of capsule-style sleeping spaces and rather cramped dorms. Bathrooms…
Matsu
A couple of homestay rooms plus a dormitory full of slightly claustrophobic capsule-style beds (and another of double capsules) are set in a pair of…
Penghu Islands
The exterior is bland and the floral foyer cohabits slightly oddly with a Family Mart, but English is spoken and most rooms have been fully refurbished in…
