24 Aug 2007
More on Happy Family Hostel
Posted by: Squareface In: Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)| Travelogue
I moved out of Happy Family Hostel after one night. I slept alright because I was dead tired, but the falling asleep process was not easy since the floor trembled whenever a vehicle drove past.
From left: the ceiling in the bathroom; the switch and cobwebbed corner; the crack in the thin wooden wall held together by scotch tape.
From left: the collapsing ceiling in the room; the hazardous switch in the bathroom
Granted, it was in Taipei city centre, near the Taipei Railway Station and the MRT station.
The view outside the window
The view below my window
Fortunately I hadn’t paid for my stay and managed to get away paying for only 1 night. As I was walking down the stairs in relief, you know what the owner said? He asked which website I found his hostel from, and asked me to kindly leave a nice review on the website. Gosh. Actually his hostel does have plenty of good reviews on hostel websites and forums. CG, I still prefer the hostel we stayed in Beijing. This Happy Family hostel was just a crappy old-apartment-turned-money-making-squatter.
