Palais de Chine Hotel, Taipei
Expert reviews
“In a city where hi-design and minimalism are all the rage, Palais de Chine takes a boldly different approach, resulting in a mishmash of French furniture and Chinese antiques. Even if the over-the-top design isn’t your thing, top-notch service and a Michelin-starred restaurant will ensure a pleasant stay.”
What guests liked
- Central location
- Swimming pool
- Comfortable beds
- Free Wifi
- Boutique style
All you need to know
The Palais de Chine stands as a premier luxury establishment among Taipei’s hotel landscape. This hotel sets itself apart from others in its league, eschewing the common trend of Asian-inspired minimalism.
Instead, it presents a harmonious fusion of Eastern simplicity and Western sophistication – a theme evident in the nearly 300 guest rooms and suites adorned with French furniture and art pieces.
However, the French influence is subtly woven into the design rather than being ostentatiously displayed. The designers prefer to describe their aesthetic as neo-classicism, an indication that the rooms exhibit a balance of sleek lines, dark wood, and stark white decor, interspersed with minimal embellishments, save for an occasional ornate mirror or contemporary claw-foot bathtub.
All rooms, irrespective of their price range, offer private balconies or verandas, some boasting awe-inspiring skyline views. Additional amenities encompass large flat-screen TVs, in-room coffee and tea setups, and the increasingly popular ‘e-butler’ service that’s gaining traction in upscale Asian hotels.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
2 August 2024
Exceptional
The helpful staff and convenient location.
Nothing
2 August 2024
Fabulous
Location is good n staff are helpful n friendly
29 July 2024
Very comfortable stay with no stress on getting in and out of the hotel.
Breakfast is very international on top of local Taiwanese items. The location is excellent with the Q Mall next door leading to the underground streets. Staff are helpful.
Not much choice on the ala carte menu in the restaurant.
28 July 2024
Great staff and service I’m a convenient location
Great staff and service. Location was great and close to the airport MRT and other MRT lines
19 July 2024
Worth a stay
The room was spacious with free flow carbonated water from Italy.
Lighting is dim for reading a little harder to control manually.
10 July 2024
Brilliant- can’t wait to come back to stay more
Fantastic hotel with massive rooms and a ballroom of a bathroom!! We had a beautiful massive round bath which was wonderful to chill down in after a long day in the humidity. Everything was of the best quality and the beds comfy and the most amazing toilet and huge walk in shower with mega views. Perfect location as the train station is literally across the road yet the rooms were super quiet, no noise at all. The complementary tea was fantastic- wish I’d asked where I could get some to take home!!
The lighting- sounds silly but they have a ultra modern lighting system that was thought up by a chimp. Trying to turn a bedside light on without lighting up the whole room was not a happening thing. It had a voice control you could also use but it couldn’t understand how to just turn on one set of lights without all the others and in the end we turned it off from annoyance and used an iPhone if we needed to get up at night so as not to wake the other up!!
10 July 2024
Modern, central and convenient
Location was fantastic, and had the underground railway system in easy walking distance
9 July 2024
Perfect
Very central, very quiet, very comfortable, and very helpful staff. The full house.
6 July 2024
Great location!
Great location and atmosphere and the staff was amazing.
We had very high expectations about the breakfast and it was good but a pricey for what was offered. The quality was amazing though.
6 July 2024
Lovely stay in Taipei
The location was brilliant, the ambience and the room were just right. Good breakfast buffet bridging Western and Asian favourites.
The gym was rather small and I think when booking some months ago, there was pool access however when asked on check-in there was no pool access, which was a minor disappointment.
5 July 2024
Good hotel
It’s a beautiful hotel close to central station. The room is quite small but has everything you need. The breakfast was good but quite expensive for what was offered.
Not so spacious
2 July 2024
Excellent stay with excellent service and interior
Excellent facilities and interior, excellent service was provided from I enter the hotel, check in and during my stay in the hotel room. When I require something and called the front desk the staff send someone to me very fast
Nil
28 June 2024
Friendly staff, convenient location and a hotel that I would re-visit.
Chic and stylish decor, and sparkling water machine on each floor.
The salad bar at breakfast restaurant. The veggies were all very fresh but should be chopped (most of the veggies were in whole piece and hard to handle/consume).
27 June 2024
Hotel's convenient location with direct access to transportation. Room is clean and comfortable.
Location: The hotel offers convenient access via an air-conditioned underground pathway, about 5-minute walk to the Metro and about 8 minutes to HSR station using the Y5 exit gateway. This pathway includes shops for added convenience and direct access to Q Square Mall. Shopping mall: A stone's throws from hotel door (exit, turns right) is Q Square, a new shopping mall connected to the same underground pathway. We used the mall's lift for luggage transportation, avoiding stairs (at Y5 exit gateway). The mentioned mall's lift (we were at the mall, 10:30am) is at the other end of Q Square's main entrance, on the left. Exiting from the lift, we followed the sign to exit the mall to Y5 gateway. Deluxe Family Room: The Deluxe Family Room is spacious and comfortable, equipped with amenities such as a bathtub, a Japanese toilet bidet, an AI system that controls room lighting (we enjoyed and also used it to enquire weather conditions, setup wakeup call, information about breakfast options etc.). The room also offers a selection of great-tasting tea and coffee in package. The corridor from the lift to the room is heavily carpeted, ensuring quiet movement of luggage. P.S. We like the decor/setting of the room, the cozy and feel of bed, texture and color of bathrooms' tiles. Check-in/out: I like the fact the check-in/out at another floor levels, separate from the ground floor. There was staff standby guiding arrival of guest(s) to the queue/counter (love the system they put it in place). The level is beautifully decorated, and seats offer for other guests to rest. Staff: The hotel staff are professional, approachable, thoughtful and friendly. Sparkling Water Room (A beautiful, decorated room with a theme): Along the corridor of the rooms, there is a unique feature—a sparkling water machine (registered brand). We used this machine to fill hotel provided glass bottle with either sparkling, cold water or normal room temperature.
23 June 2024
A good site with super helpful staff
The friendly staff and high class service Also the sparkling water is really good n convenient
The design of the bathroom and shower arrangement.
19 June 2024
Excellent hotel situated within city central.
Excellent location and comfortable beds. Hotel staff are friendly and helpful too.
The “open” concept of bath tub (can be enclosed by curtain) and wash basin are more unique features within hotels. Would prefer tub and basin to be situated within enclosed rooms.
17 June 2024
Fabulous
Good location, awesome toilet, love the ai box in the room and good mattress.
I like the soda water and refillable bottle but recommend they give two bottles per room (instead of one) so do not have to go back and forth to refill. Room is very very small for Taiwan context.
13 June 2024
Very comfortable and quiet.
Ideal location for shopping, eating and transportation. Hotel staff was super nice and requests were honoured with a smile. And for me the soft lighting in the hotel worked well. Room was spacious and comfortable. Perfect water system where you can fill your own bottles with pure water. Very good breakfast.
It takes a while before you understand how to light or dim your room. Not an easy system. And in most rooms you still can hear the sound of the traffic (although very softly).
10 June 2024
One of the best hotel rooms we have stayed in
Great location across the road of Taipei Main train station, nice large rooms with everything you need, huge King sized bed, bath and huge shower, very helpful staff, can hold bags at no extra cost if you arrive early
Dim lighting in public areas. Expensive restaurants
7 June 2024
Excellent location and services
Convenient just beside the train station and is connected via the malls.. and is direct from the airport train .. easily find.
Convenient and connected to many other places in Taiwan via the train station
24 May 2024
Exceptional
Great location, nice themed room and decor, staff is so friendly
23 May 2024
Gorgeous hotel with helpful staff
Very convenient right by Taipei main station, spacious room and bathroom, staff were kind and courteous, always happy to help.
14 May 2024
Best in Taipei with excellent breakfast
Excellent breakfast, location, room, service
Nothing really
13 May 2024
Great location with all the amenities
Top floor lounge and staff were excellent
The elevators could be slow to arrive
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Kid meals (additional charge)
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Currency exchange
- - Luggage storage
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Fitness centre
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Parking garage
- - Electric vehicle charging station
- - Accessible parking
Entertainment and family services
- - Strollers
Pool and wellness
- - Swimming pool
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Access to health care professionals
5 August 2024
A nice hotel and a pleasant stay
The hotel is located in the city center, convenient to everywhere. The staffs are friendly and helpful. The room is decorated cosy and comfortable. Free sparkling/soda water is a plus. We enjoyed our stay and definitely will come again.