Taipei Day 3 Decelerate
After 2 hectic days of sightseeing around Taipei and hastening of our steps to keep up with the tour in Hualien, we decided to slow down Day 3’s pace. In light of returning from Hualien at 10pm the night before and then visiting Eslite Bookstore, Cheng Pin (成品) at 12am and returning dead tired to the hotel with 2 thick female magazines at 2am, it was a perfect self-assuring reason that we could sleep-in the next day.
With our definition of sleep-in, it would mean getting up early so that we wouldn’t miss the hotel breakfast and getting back to sleep till after noon. This is our usual routine on our zen-ish weekends too.
Day 3’s breakfast was the first in the hotel, and of course this is my chance to finally appreciate and admire the interior of this beautiful boutique hotel – Les Suite Taipei.
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Picture Courtesy from the official website, and some of my own.
First of all, this is not a mega-chain hotel. It is located in a rather discreet road lined with boutique shops selling Loccitane products and chic Italian wear. A trendy neighbourhood close to the shopping, entertainment and business areas of Chung Hsiao E. Road and Dun Hua S. Road. You have 2 big malls of Sogo around (however the closest I got to them was during a wait in the building shelter for the rain to stop) and walking to and fro Eslite 24 hour Bookstore 2 streets away proved to be an easy mission in the middle of the night. A very convenient Zhongxiao Fuxing station about 10 minutes walk away (though I dread the long walk in the heat).
So why. What’s so special.
(1) A small but quiet oasis.
(2) The space, that they magically transform into a buffet breakfast place during the morning, from a posh looking “lobby” area of elegant bookshelves and sofas and an evening liquor cabinet and a cigar humidor standing out exquisitely in the warm interior.
Every set of tables and chairs (sofas) that were laid out during breakfast looks different. Some guests had long sofas with knee-height tables, some with plywood-framed cushion chairs with makeshift long tables of waist height. Our set were normal, but I like it because it was next to the floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. And I found myself inevitably picking up a copy of Traveler while sipping away a glass of juice. How nice.
(3) Wired and wireless. With every detail catered to the business traveller needs. For me, an admiration of those details.
(4) We got a 9th floor room (the hotel has only 9 floors), near the gym that nobody uses and it’s easy to grab a bottle of mineral water just like that.
And beside the suite. A very beautiful one. *peeked into it while they were doing room cleaning*
The only unpleasant experience was, when we had difficulty finding the light switch for a certain downlight in the room. It was then when C finally figured how to operate on the one-touch-for-all lights beside the bed. Which to me, is still a mystery.
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