West 59 Inn

3.0 star property
your current months are December, 2024 and January, 2025.
December 2024
January 2025

Photo gallery for West 59 Inn

Lobby sitting area
Lobby
Classic Triple Room
Reception hall
Front of property

Reviews

7.2 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Air conditioning
  • Free WiFi

Explore the area

Map
No.59, Daxi Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei, 111
  • Shilin Night Market
    2 min walk
  • Taipei Children's Amusement Park
    17 min walk
  • Taipei Sogo
    20 min walk
  • Taipei (TSA-Songshan)
    24 min drive

Room options

Economy Single Room

  • 7 sq m
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Standard Double Room

  • 10 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Standard Twin Room

  • 10 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

Classic Triple Room

  • 14 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Family Room

  • 22 sq m
  • Sleeps 6
  • 3 Double Beds

Classic Quadruple Room

  • 18 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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About the area

Taipei

Located in Taipei (Shilin), West 59 Inn is steps from Shilin Night Market and a 4-minute drive from Grand Hotel. .This guesthouse is 6.5 mi (10.5 km) from Taipei 101 and 4.7 mi (7.6 km) from Yangmingshan National Park.

What's nearby

  • Shilin Night Market - 2 min walk
  • Taipei Children's Amusement Park - 17 min walk
  • Grand Hotel - 4 min drive
  • National Palace Museum - 5 min drive
  • Ningxia Night Market - 6 min drive

Getting around

  • Shilin Station - 4 min walk
  • Wanhua Station - 9 min drive
  • Songshan Airport (TSA) - 24 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪海友十全排骨 - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪士林伯豆花 - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪牛棒碗安 GOBO 精緻鍋物 - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪建發號傳統豆花 - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪珍煮丹 - ‬3 min walk

About this property

West 59 Inn

Guesthouse in Taipei, steps from Shilin Night Market
West 59 Inn offers 23 air-conditioned accommodations with complimentary bottled water and slippers. Flat-screen televisions come with digital channels.

Bathrooms include showers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Taipei guesthouse provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided on a limited basis.

Make yourself at home in one of the 23 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and electric kettles, and housekeeping is provided on a limited basis.
The front desk is staffed during limited hours.

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin), English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • No on-site parking available

Family friendly

  • Fridge

Guest services

  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Housekeeping (limited)
  • Luggage storage

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning
  • Blackout drapes/curtains

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • Digital channels
  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Free bottled water
  • Fridge

More

  • Desk
  • Slippers

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 4:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10 PM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from noon - 10 PM
Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staffed during limited hours
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 24 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
If you are planning to arrive after 8:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation
Starting January 1, 2025, this property does not provide disposable personal items, such as comb, loofah, shaver, nail file, and shoe mitt.

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and cash

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

Shih Lin Service Apartment Guesthouse Taipei
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West 59 Inn Reviews

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 65 out of 345 reviews" "
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Rating 4 - Poor. 28 out of 345 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 28 out of 345 reviews" "

7.2/10

Cleanliness

7.0/10

Staff & service

7.0/10

Amenities

7.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Barbara

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
No lobby staff and no staff ever seen to ask questions of. Only contact with the hotel was through whatsapp. Check-in was a tedious process through whatsapp which I would not have successfully completed without the help of someone I was traveling with. Had to request towels, drinking water and toilet paper through whatsap on a daily basis by 11 am.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Gordon

Liked: Cleanliness
Rooms were clean and well-stocked, but each one different, and some without windows. Beds were comfortable. Advance check-in instructions were not clear. Nobody is available for on-site check-in, Be sure you have WhatsApp or Line installed, or you will be dead in the water. All communication with management is through those apps. Once we got that cleared up, everything went smoothly. This is not your typical tourist hotel, and some rooms do not have elevator access, but it is clean, safe, and authentic. I would stay here again!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Rooms are mostly without real windows.
The rooms with windows were not true windows, just a tiny cell hole high up that faces the corridors. So the rooms will not get amy sunlight. The rooms have some kind of cigarette smell. If they can get rid of smell plus wallpaper the room, room will be much better. The only good thing is that rates are quite low.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Self service is one of the best ways for me.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

YANXIAN

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2024

4/10 Poor

Karstina

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Checking in was hard, there is no help desk. Room was dirty and tiny. The AC worked though.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Scott

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room is very small. Shower is over the toilet. Room isn’t cleaned daily. Cheap towels, and only 2 at a time. No place to put a suicase. TV didn’t work well. AC system was not easy to use. No front desk or on-site personnel. IT WAS ONE LEVEL ABOVE LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE.
Stayed 10 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Edward

Liked: Staff & service
Good location next to Shilin market and close to the metro. Good shower, Aircon, and an elevator. We were at the end of the corridor so it was quiet. Room is tiny which wasn't super clear in the pictures. Floor was absolutely filthy when we arrived, although when I notified reception they did send the cleaner to vacuum. It clearly never gets mopped. Bed is also small but relatively comfortable. Found the whole process for check in very tedius of messaging on line, having to download this app, recieving a code. A human interaction is sometimes better. Room was also not ready until 4pm, worldwide this is very late for a check in which is usually 2pm. They did allow us to leave bags in a communal area as no reception (which didn't feel safe at all). Overall for the price charged it felt expensive for the service received.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Thomas

Business traveller
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Great location for night market goer like me, cute neighborhood too, almost everything were done remotely hard to talk to a person when there's a problem
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Timothy Gabriel

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
I wanted to like this place. I'd lived in Taiwan before so I knew what to expect from "apartment" style buildings. Location was great for my trip and wifi was blazing. Service people are helpful. Taxis probably wont want to pull up to the front of the building in that narrow street, so that's something to note. Make sure to have "Line" messaging app installed to contact the management and send a pic of your passport, to get the door panel code and check-in details for your room. Newly installed access panel for the building's front door had us locked out for 30min one day, so that could have been very bad for us had we missed a meeting. Asked to change sheets and towels one day, but only sheets were changed. There was a small window towards the hallway that make it harder to sleep as the room was never dark. Walls don't offer any soundproofing, and they ask to keep the noise down past 9pm. Overall, It's not terrible, but not great either. Good for utility, not for comfort.
Stayed 14 nights in Jan 2024

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No service at all.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

2/10 Terrible

Leonard, Clearwater

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The confirmation letter from Expedia was no help. It took me an hour sitting in the lobby to realize there was no one working the frontdesk in the lobby. I had to catch other guests going in and out the 'hotel' to help with contacting the manager. I must first install Line, an app I had never used before, Then another person helped me with how to contact the manager with Line. That took another half an hour before I was checked in. As a visitor, I had internet but no phone.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Cheng Yang

Liked: Staff & service
Nice stay, will do again
Stayed 9 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Basic Accommodation, Good Location
Basic accommodation for one-two nights stay. Good location, short walk to train station, bus station and night market. A lot of food options nearby. Not easy to find as the main entrance is just a regular house entrance. There is no proper signage so you just need to find the number 59 plate on the wall.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Tai Pang

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

NoName

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Someone was smoking in my room, I m guessing the cleaner. Smell bad, other than that the room nice!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

DC, Hong Kong

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean, simple, tidy though it’s a little small but good for solo or couple travellers. Walking distance to Shilin night market and convenient store. Quiet surrounding as it is located in residential area.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Limited friendliness provided by most staff. Nearby to day and night market.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Siew Seng

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
It's just ok
Well, when we arrived nobody on the desk. We waited about 30mins till someone helped us on our booking. We lost water in our 1st day. We dont the know how to contact them. The place was nice closer to the night market.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

6/10 Okay

Trang, Melbourne, Australia

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Small apartment with great location. Couple minutes walk to the station and Shilin Night Market. However, shower and toilet space not separated by any curtain or screen which means the toilet floor is completely wet after a shower.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

John

Liked: Cleanliness
For the price, it’s a fair deal.
For the price, it’s a fair deal. You get what you pay for.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2019