Mr Lobster's Secret Den Design Hostel

Staffs are nice. Facilities are enough for tourister. Wifi signal is good(there are about 30 wifi routers).

Hostel is a bit far from mrt and restaurant, but there is a bus stop in front of hostel. Check-in time is too late, I think it would be better if it's around 1-2pm.

Good value for money

The room is small and the painting on wall looks would be peeled off soon...

Large spacious dorms with comfortable beds. Plenty of space for everyone. Each bed has its own privacy curtain, plug socket and light (although my light was broken). Never had to wait for the bathrooms (2 bathrooms in each dorm). Free shampoo, shower gel etc. Ideal location next to Taipei station if you're arriving late or departing early.

I have stayed in hundreds of hostels and had my worst hostel experience ever staying here. I stayed here for 3 nights, although I didn't actually sleep here the last night - I had a late flight at 23:35 so booked the room so that I could use this throughout the day and come back and shower/chill before my flight. Having had a great day in Taipei, I returned to the hostel to do just this and leisurely re-pack my bag after a week travelling around Taiwan. The next hour was one of the most stressful ever. The dormitory doors are all electronic, opened with an access card. My card was no longer working when I arrived back at the hostel so couldn't get into the room to get my bag which contained most importantly my passport! Nobody was on reception, so first I had to track somebody down. When I eventually found someone, they then couldn't open the door either. The door lock had completely broken and they couldn't do an electronic reset to fix this. The staff also had no masterkey so in the end tried breaking the door down (not very well). This went on in total for around an hour with no solution in sight until I was able to speak to the manager on the phone (who was on his way to the building and arranged for an emergency locksmith to attend). Meanwhile the clock was ticking and getting dangerously close to my flight time. In the end the door suddenly just started working again 5 minutes before the locksmith was due to arrive and I was able to reclaim my possessions. The hostel were very apologetic and arranged a taxi to take me to the airport so that I would just make the flight in time. But I would never risk staying here again and the same thing happening (despite them claiming this had never happened in 6 years).