The host is very friendly and fast to respond to messages. The apartment is conveniently located in a busy tourist area of Taipei. There was some construction noise (hammering and drilling) in the daytime from remodeling or new buildings being built in the area.
I would normally give 5 stars for this booking, but since the host broke his promise to let me extend the booking I can not do so.
I can understand that a host is running a business and will take a new booking whenever possible, but I find it distasteful and low integrity to not give a final option to extend - if he had another interested tenant. The host just gave the apartment to another guest without telling me beforehand, despite our agreement to give notice about an extension within a couple of days.
I got the feeling he did not wish to give me the option to rent the apartment - perhaps since he received a higher price from another person. This is not my way of running an apartment business for repeat and happy customers.
I had to take off a couple of review stars for such dishonest business behaviour.