SleepBox Hotel - Ximen

Good

Pros: - It felt very welcoming to stay in Sleepbox as staff will acknowledge your return with a smile and advise you to rest early (due to last-minute scheduling, I'd stayed for abt a week); provided useful information too. - Facilities are adequately clean and guests can borrow stuff like iron and ironing board or use the coin-operated washer/dryer - Biggest plus point is Sleepbox's location, a few minutes brisk walk from NTU Hospital (Red line) and Ximen (Blue and Green line), and travellers coming from Taoyuan Airport can alight at Beimen and take MRT to Ximen (1 stop) as it is easier to walk from Ximen than from Taipei main station area. Tip: certain airlines allow luggage check-in (minimally 3h ahead of flight) at Beimen station too. Cons: 1) Mosquitos which affected sleep as they are extremely itchy! Perhaps Sleepbox can consider using door sweep or a door draft stopper to seal up gap between door and floor. 2) Not-sound proof: snoring next door and inconsiderate guests who were chatting away or video-calling (can hear the caller too!) either past midnight or at 5.30am (different groups, different days) at lounge area. More signages needed

Nice place!

Cool place! Spacey/airy common room downstairs where we had our room, multiple toilets and showers (men and women separate), access to refridgerator and freezer, reception open between 9-24, some training/gym equipment free for use. Close to stores, food and metro!

You get what you paid. I changed the hotel.

Good value for location and private accommodation

我覺得床墊很舒服，但膠囊倉拉門可以更滑順一些，通氣性也可以設計得更好些，另外因為倉頂有些縫隙空間，會有些微光線滲入，因此習慣全暗的睡眠環境者，可能比較不適合，另外，隔音無法好，因有縫隙，因此可能會被鈴聲/打鼾聲吵醒。

Sofa is too soft cause me back pain

The doors on the "sleepbox" are spring loaded with only a chain lock to keep them closed. I had to pile my belongings against the door to try and keep it shut and keep it from banging at night. Horrible design. Cheap and flimsy. Also the box is not contained, so I could see the lights of the person below me under and next to my mattress. Half of the switches did nothing (i.e. fan switch/AC switch). It looks high tech in the photos but is cheap poor quality in reality. The bathrooms were mostly clean, but there was hair everywhere. Any and all extras in this hostel are charged (e.g. safe, locker, towel, etc.) I would never stay here again.

Second stay there after last year. Great as always!

It is a nice place to stay for a vacation, I highly recommend it and the rate is affordable

It’s close to the Ximen station (within 10min walking distance) and the Taipei main station (around 15min walking distance). Location was good with several convenient shop nearby. Reception staff was nice. But the private room condition is just fair. There were many mosquitos in the room! We killed at least 3 but still could saw 4 staying on the wall and ceiling! We asked for room cleaning and I expected to remove the hair in the bathroom at least but no! Only the rubbish bin was cleared...

Convenient for MRT and buses within 100M to 300M distance. Local food and convenience stores within 50M, Hotel common area is clean by lady cleaner daily including clearing common rubbish. Will recommend the hotel to friends.

Stayed at 8 female dorm. Very noisy at night as no rules. Shared toilet is very smelly. Room and toilet also have mosquito. Booked 2 nights but the receptionist only activated my card for a night. End up I cannot go into the room at basement and need to request from the receptionist again.

Meh. It was a one night layover so I wasn’t expecting much. The beds were clean and comfortable. However walls are thin, it’s noisey and the bathrooms were appalling. There were long dark hairs everywhere, two of the toilets had a massive poo in them and hadn’t been flushed and there was a girl vomiting when I was in there.

The hotel is very near to the train station and has a few coffee shops and attractions nearby.

Paid in advance for what we booked (a superior double room with private bathroom), got a 'Yes' for our request (a room with no staircase to climb), and in the end we got, on the first night, a staff promising the room we want on following nights and in turn offered a terribly small single room in which we could hardly squeeze pass each other; on second and third nights, a room downstairs with upper deck bed of which we had no choice but CLIMB up and down in the middle of night in order to get to the shower room to pee in the waterhole, because we did NOT have a private toilet nor did we want to leave the room. HOW could you charge us the money for not what you could give?! And HOW could you not check the room vacancy before you rent it out?! What a scam!

Mosquito and squeaky bedframe 😅 But staff tended to issues quick. Ok for solo travelers

This hostel was atrocious! I went back to check into my room only to find that the key didn't work. The girl at the front desk explained to me that they changed the locks earlier that evening. I asked her why I wasn't informed of this upon check in or via email after it occurred. She explained it was because the hotel doesn't have a 24 hour reception... How are the two related? If she wasn't there I would have been locked out of my room with no way to get a key! The receptionist's attitude was far from apologetic and downright rude. Furthermore, this highlights a security flaw in that anyone can enter the premises after midnight without a key :o In order to rectify the situation her solution was to refund my money and book me into another hotel. I was sent away in a taxi with a small piece of paper written in Mandarin. Needless to say I never found the place and was out on the street in the middle of the night. If you want to be locked out of your room and potentially be resigned to sleeping on a couch in an unsecured common area then this is the establishment for you!

Capcell bed creaks and a lot of mosquitos. My locker was occupied by someone's staff. Shower was not warm. The Hotel was clean and quiet, but facilities are so poor.