Travel Art Inn

The bedding is pretty hard- if they upgrade that, they'd get 100% of my vote

This is a great Inn that I got a good deal on near the centre of Chiayi, about 10 minutes from the Train station. The rooms are fantastic, including a TV, toilet, shower and even a mini-fridge!

The staff aren't particularly social, although that is probably just the language barrier as I don't speak Mandarin. I guess they could speak better English but that's not such a big deal.

Very close to the train station (<10 min walk). Rooms are very comfortable, everything is new and spotless clean. Bathroom is inside the room which was great in terms of privacy. I was lucky as when I stayed there was no one else in y doorm room so I had it all to myself.

Breakfast. I was given a voucher to a place opposite the hostel (despite hostel serving buffet breakfast to some of their guests). I only had coffee there as that was all the voucher could buy and didn’t drink it. Went to 7/11 instead as it was awful.

The staff are always nice and helpful. Good location-- 10 mins walk to the main railway station, 2 mins walk to family mart, which makes it much easier to buy the ticket and board the bus to Alishan national park. The meatballs and tofu for the breakfast was so tasty!!!

The instructions for payment was not very clear which make me think that I had to pay in advance. It turned out that we paid upon arrival. No big issue, it just would be better if we could know about the payment method clearly.