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TWH - Tai Wan Hotel

Yau Tsim Mong District (Tsim Sha Tsui)

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Address	Block A, 3rd Floor, Chungking Mansions, 38 Nathan Road, Yau Tsim Mong District (Tsim Sha Tsui), Kowloon, Hong Kong Map
Price	Dorm beds from US$10.00. Private rooms from US$13.00/person. Price may vary by season - Check Current Prices by Date Here

Location/Contact

Location	• ADDRESS • TWH-Tai Wan Hotel Hong Kong • Flat A5, 3 Floor, Block A, Chung King Mansions, No • Hong Kong, Hong Kong • DIRECTIONS • Flat A5, Block A, 3rd Floor, Chung King Mansions, • No:36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, • Kowloon, Hong Kong • Here is the Directions for our Hostel: • From the Airport • Travelers have the choice of taking, the City-Bus A21 Route, the taxis or the MTR Airport Express to reach our hostel from the airport. • 1. Airport Bus: Airport bus is the most popular method to get to Chungking Mansions. The Airbus Station is located near Hall B on the Arrivals Level (Level 5) of Hong Kong International Airport. Find the bus stand for A21 Airport Hung Hom KCR Station Route. You will see a map of the terminal. There is usually a lineup of around 10. The bus departs approximately every 10-15 minutes. A fare is HK$33. When you are on the bus, be sure to first secure your luggage then find a sit on the lower level. In 40 -90 minutes (varies with traffic) you will reach the Bus Stop No.14 - Middle Road, Nathan Road. (1st being the airport). Because the service time of A21 is 05:00-23:59, you can use N21 airport bus at same place and stop at same bus stop if you arrival Hong Hong after 00:00. • Once you got off the bus, turn the back way, and walk approximately about 50M, It takes about 30 seconds on foot. you can see the Chung King Mansions front entrance on your right hand side. You wiil see the huge TV screen paste at the wall of Chungking Mansions. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • 2. Taxi: From the airport, you can get to our hostel direct. It is the quickest and the most reliable method. It takes about 30-45 minutes. You are expected to pay about HK$280-300 for the trip. Most taxi drivers in Hong Kong know some English. The following texts may come in handy: • 'Tsim Sha Tsui Middle Road' (Chinese word = 尖沙咀中间道靠弥敦道口 ) • 'Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station Exit E' (Chinese word = 尖沙咀北京道靠弥敦道口 ) • 'Chungking Mansions'(Chinese word = 尖沙咀重庆大厦门口) • Taxi driver may not know precisely where Chung King Mansions is. Even if they do, they may not have heard of its name in English. If will be helpful to show them the map or Chinese word. There is no airport taxi, only regular taxis. Please catch the red coloured one, because other colours do not go to the Kowloon area. Once you got off the Taxi, just find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. It should be within your sight when you got off the Taxi. • When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • 3. Airport Express (AEL) / Railway: For passengers who wants a balance between comfort and economic, the Airport Express Railway is the definite choice. Airport Express can be easily spotted in the Arrival Hall. You will find ticketing machine on side walls. Purchase your ticket for the Kowloon stop. Get off at Kowloon station. This will take 20 minutes. The fare is HK$90. • After 20 minutes of the ride, you will arrive at the Kowloon Station. Direct your self to Exit A and hop on to a taxi It takes about 5 minutes to get to Chung King Mansions. You are expected to pay about HK$20 for this short trip, or you can take shuttle bus K5 to go to the Holiday Inn hotel. Get off at Holiday Inn Golden Mile (Hotel). walk to the Nathan Road side, and turn to the left hand side walk more 50 steps, you will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • From the Train(from China) • 1. KCR(Kowloon-Canton Railway): If you come from Lo Wu (Shenzhen, China), please get off at the last station - East Tsim Sha Tsui. Get off from K gate - Middle Road. After comes out walks towards Nathan Road direction, walk to the intersection right extention, walk 100m, obviously Chung King Mansions main entrance, It takes about 2 minutes on foot. You will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • 2. Train from China Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or etc...: If you take the nonstop train from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or etc... your train will stop at the Kowloon HungHom Station, when you get off the train, buy the ticket to the station - East Tsim Sha Tsui. It cost HKD$3.5 per person, and take 2 minutes. When you arrival the East Tsim Sha Tsui station, Get off from K gate - Middle Road. After comes out walks towards Nathan Road direction, walk to the intersection right extention, walk 100m, obviously Chungking Mansions main entrance, It takes about 2 minutes on foot. You will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • From the Ferry(from China, Macau or etc...) • There are two piers: • 1. China HK City: This pier is just located at Tsim Sha Tsui area. Use the taxi only charge HKD$20 and take about 5 minutes then you are at our building. Also you can walk to here about 10 minutes. You will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • 2. SheungWan: This pier is located at SheungWan MTR subway station, take the subway 5 minutes to the Tsim Sha Tsui station, E gate. You will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chung King Mansions. It should be within your sight when you got off the E gate. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • City Transportation: • MTR Subway(Mass Transit Railway): This is most popular city transportation for foreign tour list. • It takes about 30 seconds on foot from E gate of Tsim Sha Tsui Station. • You will find the huge TV screen paste at the wall, that just the Chungking Mansions. It should be within your sight when you got off the E gate. When you make sure you are at Chung King Mansions, walk into the Block A ( just be close to the Chungking Mansions front entrance). You can see two lift, take the right hand side one,(stop at odd numbers floor), push the 3rd floor button, when you are out, you can see our reception should be within your sight. • ************************************************************************************************************************************ • ATTENTION TO OUR PRECIOUS GUEST: • Check-in at the following address: • HostelHK Group Main Reception CHECK-IN Office: • Block A, 3 Floor, Chung King Mansion, 36-44 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. • Many thanks for your booking, please print out your booking confirmation sheet and check-in with your name. We will have your name and confirmation number on a list of paper. When we verify your name and number finish, you need to pay the whole room rent. Then you will easy to check-in and get in your room. • When you arrival to Hong Kong, and into the TSIM SHA TSUI area, please do not show or give your booking information to any stranger, because our hostel is popular, and some people always stand in the street pretending to be our staff and bring you to a different place. They will try to get money out of you before you discovered that you have been cheated! Even when you find out the truth, they will not return the money to you. • When you arrive at the Hong Kong international airport, before you collect your luggage, there are many free telephone you can use, please call us immediately, we will direct you the easiest way to come to our hotel. • CHANGES / CANCELLATION POLICY • Any arrival date or time changes, please contact us by email at least 48 hours before your original arrival date. For the cancellation must be made through this official website. Phone calls not accepted. Otherwise the two night's room rent will be charged from your credit card for failing to follow the above rules. • Copyright 1980-2007 TWH-HOSTELHK GROUP. All rights reserved.
Website	None
Telephone	852+94686479
Fax	852+23667468

Details

Description

Features

Kitchen
Lockers
Bar
Nightclub
Lounge / Common space
TV
Washing Machine (laundry)
Clothes Dryer
Elevator/Lift
Travel information provided
Free City Tours
24 Hour Free Hot Showers
Phones (public or in room)
Currency Exchange
Air Conditioning
Bike Rental

Ratings & Comments

1.2 Average from 5 Ratings

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Comment by fionad, Scotland/New Zealand

June 2009

Do not stay here.
This place is disgusting. The Chungking mansions is a huge busy building with many other hostels inside it, there are touters (people trying to sell you things and drag you to their hostels) all hanging around the entrance all the time. We ignored them but were tricked into believing a guy who claimed to be from our hostel, he was friendly, not pushy, and seemed genuine. He took us to the reception and pretended he had our booking in his paperwork then took my copy of reference number and payment for three nights. After spending one night we had a bad feeling that something wasn't right and went to look around for the Apple Hostel where we had booked. They were very sympathetic and called the police for us. They arrived within ten minutes and came with us to the Taiwan Hotel and got our money back. One of us was badly bitten by bedbugs all over his body and another had cockroaches and rats in the ceiling of his tiny room. Later I noticed a sign saying that they rent rooms by the hour, not a nice place. If you really must stay in the Chungking mansions, then find your hostel by yourself (the signs are above the lifts), and don't speak to anybody downstairs. I see the photos advertised of the Taiwan Hotel look nothing like it! dodgy.

Comment by Phil, English

January 2008

Terrible
the location is amazing, but that is really where anything good about this hostel ends. The pictures are a complete lie -- the room i was in would just have been about ok as a single room not a four-bed dorm if we stood up we couldn't open the door. The bathroom was so small i had to sit on the toilets sideways cause the sink sits on your knee. We had no key cause the door lock didn't work the owner just said we had to take valuables with us -- not great traveling round hong kong just hoping your stuff is not being taken. Overall just don't stay in the chungking mansions -- spend more and go somewhere better.

Comment by NAITE, AUSTRALIA

November 2007

Do not stay
This place is disgusting! You will get ripped off. We did. Don't be fooled by the pictures, you will not get what is in them. Stayed for three nights and it was the worst place I have ever slept. The toilet is so bad and dirty. It's not even worth staying. Just don't stay, it is that bad.

Comment by Eric

January 2007

I'll be a little more generous. I found the place passable. The staff was friendly and helpful, and when I arrived by cab from the airport after midnight the man was down on the sidewalk with my name in hand looking for me. the single room was reasonably clean and I did not have any critters. The decor was depressing. The charge is reasonable and the location is convenient, but am not sure I want to stay there in a few weeks.

Comment by Roger

November 2006

Not for the faint of heart. I'm a student traveling on a budget and am normally willing to cut corners when it comes to lodgings in order to free up funds for other things. However, compromising what I consider minimal standards was not worth the few bucks I saved lodging here. This hostel is located in a decrepit tower that sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise glitzy section of Nathan Road. I had originally reserved a bed in a shared dormitory. When I arrived, I was shown to a tiny room where the three threadbare beds practically touched. The stained toilet seat hung from one hinge on the toilet, above which was a shower head and beside, a sink -- a bathroom for four people condensed into a space the size of a closet. I believe their listing mentions something about a locker and a digital access pass but no such things were in evidence. (The sofa, microwave, reading desk, and other amenities mentioned in their listing were also absent when I visited.) When I asked the employee (whose command of English would confer no distinction on her outside the Commonwealth) about them, she replied that the place was full and that I should keep my valuables with me. I decided it would be worth the expense to switch to a private room. I shelled out again the amount I had already paid and was shown to a small room that smelled of insecticide with a window that opened onto a dark shaft. After the sad sight of the shared dorm, I relished the peace of mind this brought but it was not to last very long. During the night, I discovered my bed was swarming with bugs. In the very early morning, two youths came by who had received the key to the same room I was occupying. Where exactly they got this before the reception had even opened was a mystery to me. In any case, as soon as the staff appeared on the scene, I called to their attention that my room was infested. The employee instructed me to bring my belongings into the hall, assuring me that I'd be assigned another room when one became available at mid-day. It took a bit longer but when I came back I was shown to a room with few insects and a private bathroom -- perhaps the best in the house! Although it is not directly under this hostel's control, something should be said about the setting. The old cinderblock building it sits in is chiefly tenanted not by tourists or locals but apparently by semi-stable inhabitants, mostly from the subcontinent and Africa. Most of the ground floor is occupied by businesses that cater to these residents. There is always a line on the ground floor for the elevator and one sometimes has to wait for the elevator to pass a couple of times before there is space for one to board. The stairwell is really stomach-turning and I once came upon a man lying on the steps as I made my way down. Thus, although the hostel is only on the third floor, I mostly opted to endure the inconvenience of the lift. I don't want to end without listing any positives, so I should mention that the location of this hostel is really great, with a range of shops and eateries within strolling distance, just around the corner from the post office and KCR station, across the street from the subway station, a couple of blocks from a nice park and a short walk from the ferry to Central. The owner is a really warm, affable fellow. However, the bottom line is that lodging anywhere in Tsim Tsa Shui at this price is not worth it. Far more comfortable quarters in this budget range are to be found in Mong Kok on this same site. That area is seedier and a couple of subway stops farther from central but offers more decorous quarters.

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