oh dear, how do i even start a proper review for this place. Previously i chose this apartment after reading many reviews. However, after staying at the apartment, i realised that all the reviews were lacking many crucial details. i will try my best to describe our experience. Pro: 1. the location of this apartment is absolutely spot on. the apartment is located at the most premium shopping area of Taipei within walking distances to all the shinning department stores and Taipei 101. even if you are into shopping (which we are so NOT), this apartment is within a stone throw from City Hall Transit centre. 2. Did i say how convenient the location of this apartment???? it is within 100 meter walking distance to Taipei City Hall MRT Exit 1. (City Hall is on The Bannan, Blue line, of MRT) You are able to travel all over Taipei by MRT (using variously connections). otherwise, across the street of MRT exit, you have Taipei City Hall transit centre. You will be able to find shuttle bus services that takes you to all other major cities outside of Taipei. We went to Taichung and Tainan by bus. it only cost less USA $10/AUS $12, you get to sit in this absolutely comfortable bus (equivalent to business class and/or first class airline seats). we were blown away by how economic and comfortable these bus shuttle services. 3, there are plenty of eatery, expensive or otherwise within walking distance of this apartment. Really, you cannot get any better location than this apartment. however, this apartment comes with "huge" warnings. firstly, I have to say that we are a family of 5, husband & wife with three children (16, 10 & 10). As a family, we will never stay at this apartment again, no matter how convenient it is. however, if i was 20 years younger, a backpacker travelling with a group of friends, with shoestring budget, i will snatch this apartment straight away. Con: - in order to maximum the rental (?) the host set bed in every possible space within this apartment. the couch we sat were three folding beds, there were 2 x double beds set in the hallway/dinning area (we guess the space to be dinning area), and another two bedrooms with 2x queens size beds each. so technically, if every space is taken, this apartment can stay 12+ adults. BUT, there is only 1 toilet, 1 shower (and toilet and shower are in the same room). how can 1 toilet service 12+ adults?? it came the "ingenious" solution of our host came about, a toilet in the balcony. yes you read it correctly. a toilet in the actual balcony. outhouse anyone?? mind you, this is an older apartment. picture this, as soon as you open the front door, you see three sofa beds as couch, look to the right, two double beds in the hallway, and walk down the hallway, two bedrooms on your left, and you get to kitchen, where you find a simple portable stove, a wash machine, oh, there's a door on the left to the balcony, you open it, then there it is, in all its glory, a toilet in the balcony!!!!! we have never seen anything like it. but i guess it will be the only solution if this apartment is ever to cater for 12+ people. - the host was somewhat difficult to get in touch with. but once you managed to track him down, he's lovely. he prepared facial masks, snacks, and fruit (banana) for us, which was so sweet. (thank you. we really appreciated your kindness). he also allowed us to drop our luggage in the apartment early (which saved us few dollars as we didn't need to rent a luggage locker at the City Hall Transit centre). So we arrived Taipei around lunch time to drop off our luggage (the check-in time is normally at 3pm), then we went to Jiufen for the afternoon. by the time we got back from Jiufen, it's past 7pm, we were tired, and hungry. as soon as we opened the apartment door, it was our host who was still at our apartment. he told us he hasn't done cleaning. it took him much longer because he needed to sort out an issue with the outhouse toilet. this was just the worst experience for us. who would want to come back to your accommodation after a long day of travelling to find a stranger in "your house"??? so we told the host, we would go and get dinner first, but he really needed to leave. thank goodness by the time we came back the second time, he was nowhere to be found. so he spent well over 7 hours cleaning the apartment while we were away, was the apartment clean?? let's just say, every night we slept with our t-shirt putting over the pillow as pillowcase. and all of us slept fully dressed from head to toes. None of us walked the floor without slipper. Yes we took our shoes off, but we would not walk bare-feet nor just with our socks on the floor. we stayed at the apartment for 3 long days. we thought about forgo the cost of accommodation to just book where else. but we really didn't stay much in the apartment. we spent all days and most evening out and about doing many activities Taipei had to offer. in the end, we indeed stayed the whole three days. Honestly, this apartment has amazing location. the cost is so low for this amazing location. but in this case, i do believe we got what we paid for. this is a backpacker style travelling, which we haven't done for many years, and would not consider doing especially when travelling with kids. but it is, what it is. this is not an apartment you can go back and have a nice rest in the afternoon, before going out at night. this is an...