Caesar Park Hotel Taipei Review: Rates and the Parking Rule

Guest room with two single beds in cream and wood tones, striped bed skirts and a desk
A twin room. The striped bed skirts and the marbled table are the marks of the 2020 refurbishment.Image supplied by Fora Travel

At Caesar Park Hotel Taipei the rack rate and the price people actually pay differ by four to five times. The hotel stands at 38 Zhongxiao West Road Section 1, with 478 rooms across twenty floors above ground, and it opened in 1973. It began as the Hilton Taipei, the first international chain hotel in Taiwan, and in its opening year it was the tallest building in the country. It connects directly to Exit M6 of Taipei Main Station, and a room key lets you ride a lift from basement level one to the lobby or to your own floor.

Three things are worth settling before you book. There is no parking lot on the property, not one space. Of the nine room types, only the Station Suite has a separate shower enclosure. And since 13 February 2026 the rooms hold no bottled water, only a kettle, with a dispenser on each floor. Nightly totals for every room type are on page 3, and the costs outside the room rate are on page 8. Reading time is about forty five minutes.

The short versionA hotel that trades hardware for location. Connected directly to Exit M6 at Taipei Main Station, in a building fifty three years old
SuitsTravelers without a car, anyone catching a train the next morning, and anyone in Taipei during the rainy season or high summer
Room sizesNine room types, 20 to 50 square meters. The standard Superior Room is 26 to 33 square meters
BreakfastCheckers on the second floor, 06:30 to 10:00, about US$23
Getting thereTaipei Main Station about 0.1 kilometers, roughly three minutes on foot from Exit M6. Taoyuan Airport 48 kilometers
PoolNone
Gym and spaSixth floor fitness center 06:30 to 22:00, sauna included. CAESAR Spa 10:00 to 20:00
ParkingNo parking lot on site. The contracted garage charges guests about US$1.58 an hour, with a 24 hour cap of about US$11
Biggest gapsOne bathroom in nine has a shower screen; no bottled water, a kettle instead; guest room windows cannot be opened

The last page carries a checklist you can tick off, twelve things. Seven of them cost nothing, and the best one needs you on the twenty first floor before half past nine. Take your time with it.

01 · ARRIVAL AND THE BASICS

On a wet day you will not open an umbrella, because of one lift in the basement

The most valuable thing about this hotel sits in a single line on its own website: it was the first hotel in Taiwan connected directly to a public concourse. Exit M6 of the Taipei Main Station metro is beside the building, and with a room key you can take a lift from basement level one to the lobby or to your own guest floor. Arriving by conventional rail, by high speed rail, by Taoyuan Airport metro, by intercity coach or by city bus, you never have to come up to street level.

That is worth a great deal in a Taipei summer and in a Taipei rainy season. It also explains something you will meet on arrival: every guest lift has key card control, and the card is what reaches a guest floor. When anyone can walk in from the underground mall and stand in the lift lobby, access control has to live inside the lift.

There is a sequence to learn, though. The lift needs a room key, and you do not have one yet when you step off the train. The first trip still takes you up to the ground floor to check in, and the shortcut from basement level one belongs to you from the second trip onward. This is the easiest thing to get wrong in the few minutes when you are pulling a suitcase out of the underground mall and looking for a sign.

AddressNo. 38, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 100, Taiwan
Telephone+886-2-2311-5151
Rooms478. Twenty floors above ground, two below
Opened1973, formerly the Hilton Taipei (history on page 12)
OperatorGuoyu Development, Caesar Park Hotels and Resorts. Not part of any international chain
MetroBannan Line or Tamsui Xinyi Line to Taipei Main Station, Exit M6, or the lift from basement level one to the lobby
Taipei Main StationAbout 0.1 kilometers, roughly three minutes on foot (Lion Travel figure)
Taoyuan Airport48 kilometers. The hotel says about 50 minutes, Booking.com says 40, Expedia says 43
Three different figures, and peak traffic differs sharply from off peak. Confirm before booking a transfer
Songshan AirportAbout 5.2 kilometers, roughly 15 to 16 minutes by car
Airport transferThe hotel quotes from about US$69 each way. ezTravel lists about US$59 per trip and notes that three days of notice are required
The two figures differ. Call the hotel service center to confirm
Check in and outAfter 15:00 and before 12:00. Early check in and late check out carry a fee, subject to availability on the day
DepositAbout US$32 per room, cash or a credit card pre authorization. Refunded if nothing is charged to the room, and card refunds take 7 to 14 working days
BusesStop name Taipei Main Station Zhongxiao. Dozens of routes including 0 East, 14, 15, 18, 22, 39, 49, 202, 205 and 212
DrivingLeave National Highway 1 at the Chongqing North Road interchange, then Chongqing North Road and left onto Zhongxiao West Road. There is no parking lot on site (page 8)
HUMAN FACTORSThe arrival sequence has an order to it, and that order follows from the access control design. You come up from basement level one, you stand in the lift lobby with luggage in your hands, and the lift will not take you to a guest floor because the card is still at the front desk. The design is right for a building whose basement opens onto a public concourse. The cost of it lands on the person least prepared for it, which is the guest who has just arrived. The fix is small and it is worth doing in this order: go up to the ground floor, check in, and only then use the shortcut.
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThe location here is good enough to change the shape of a trip. Conventional rail, high speed rail, two metro lines, the Taoyuan Airport metro, intercity coaches and city buses all meet in basements you can walk to. You do not need to wake an hour early for a seven o'clock train, and you do not need to get wet changing trains during a typhoon. The price of that is the thing on page 8, plus everything that comes with a fifty three year old building. Those two forces pull against each other for the rest of this article, and by the end you will know which side you are on.
HOW TO PLAN IT
  • Wet dayUse basement level one. Once you hold the key, that lift takes you to your floor without ever reaching street level.
  • On arrivalGo up to the ground floor and check in first. The lift needs the card, and the basement shortcut is for the second trip onward.
  • Early flightThe hotel and the platforms put Taoyuan Airport at anything from 40 to 50 minutes. Allowing 60 minutes is safer.

02 · LOBBY AND PUBLIC SPACES

The whole building has three public facilities, on the sixth floor and the twenty first

The public space here is honest about itself. The hotel facilities page lists three items: a sixth floor fitness center, a sixth floor coin laundry, and a twenty first floor roof garden. No pool, no executive lounge, no children's playroom. This is a 1973 business hotel and it gave its floor area to guest rooms and to banquet halls.

Roof garden on the twenty first floor, a timber boardwalk with the city skyline behind
The twenty first floor roof garden, open 08:00 to 21:30.Image to follow

The fitness center is for guests only, open from half past six in the morning until ten at night, with weights, treadmills and stair climbers, and a sauna. The official site gives that last item a single clause and most summaries miss it. The laundry is coin operated, nine in the morning until ten at night, which makes a real difference on a stay of three nights or more. Coin operated means you need coins, and most people are carrying a transit card and one credit card, so change some before you go down.

There is a scheduling coincidence worth thinking through first: the sixth floor gym opens at 06:30, and breakfast at Checkers on the second floor also starts at 06:30. Breakfast closes at ten and the gym stays open until ten at night, so most people eat first and train afterward.

The roof garden is laid with a southern pine boardwalk and runs from eight in the morning to half past nine at night. This building has twenty floors above ground, and the roof garden is labeled the twenty first floor. Both figures appear in official material, and counting a roof level as an extra floor is common practice.

6F fitness center06:30 to 22:00, guests only. Weights, treadmills, stair climbers, sauna included. Enquiries (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2173
6F laundry09:00 to 22:00, coin operated
21F roof garden08:00 to 21:30, southern pine boardwalk
CAESAR Spa10:00 to 20:00, last booking 19:00. Enquiries (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2603. The official site does not state the floor (treatments and prices on page 7)
LiftsKey card controlled. The card is what reaches a guest floor
PoolNone. The Guest Reservations question and answer page states there is no pool, while the Agoda property description mentions a rooftop Sky Pool
The two contradict each other. The hotel facilities page governs: there is no pool
Executive loungeNone. Not listed by the hotel. The ezTravel facilities table lists an executive floor
The sources differ. Confirm before booking
Banquet and meetingsBanquet halls for weddings, business meetings and year end company dinners. Site visits by appointment, by telephone or through the form
1F service centerParking validation, luggage storage and airport transfers are all arranged here
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThree public facilities, no pool and no lounge together mean this building does not expect to hold you. It assumes you will go out, and its location makes that assumption work. For a business traveler the configuration is right: the gym opens at half past six, the laundry takes your coins, and the rest of the time you are in the city. For anyone hoping to spend a whole day inside the hotel, the first afternoon will feel empty. If resort facilities are the point, Caesar Park Hotel Banqiao in the same group has a rooftop infinity pool and Caesar Metro Taipei has an outdoor pool (page 11).
TAKE YOUR TIME Pick an evening and go up to the twenty first floor at about half past eight. The whole station complex, the traffic on Zhongxiao West Road and the towers further out lie below you, and you are standing on a timber walkway. In 1973 this roof was the highest point in Taiwan. It carried a closed circuit fire watch station, a seismograph, and at one time an air force anti aircraft unit. Now it carries southern pine and a few chairs. It closes at half past nine, so do not leave it too late. Nothing is asked of you up here. Stand and look for a while.

03 · GUEST ROOMS

Caesar Park Taipei rates: nine room types, and why almost nobody pays these prices

The rooms page lists nine room types, from a 20 square meter single to a 50 square meter Station Suite. Nightly totals run from about US$435.33 to about US$761.83. Read the table first, and the reason those figures are theoretical follows underneath.

Guest room with a full wall of green leaf pattern, one large bed and a chaise
A room type built around a full wall of leaf pattern. This photograph explains why some rooms on the same list are smaller and dearer: the wall and the finishes are what you are paying for, and the floor area is counted separately.Image supplied by Fora Travel

One thing to expect while booking. The nine names sit in a single column in the booking system, and Superior, Deluxe, Premier, Metro and Metropolis give no clue about which is larger. The only real differences are floor area and bed type. Keep the table below and you will not have to guess on the booking page.

Room types and nightly totals (converted from published rack rates, checked 28 August 2026)

Superior Room26 to 33 m²|2 guests|one large bed or two singles
Nightly total about US$435.33
Standard Single Room20 m²|1 to 2 guests|one large bed
Nightly total about US$435.33
Deluxe Room33 m²|2 guests|two singles or one double
Nightly total about US$471.61
Superior Double Double33 m²|4 guests|two double beds
Nightly total about US$544.16
Premier Room33 m²|2 guests|one large bed or two singles|refurbished in 2020
Nightly total about US$544.16
Metro Room26 m²|2 guests|one large bed
Nightly total about US$580.44
Metropolis Room33 m²|2 guests|two singles or one large bed
Nightly total about US$616.72
Premier Double Double33 m²|4 guests|two double beds
Nightly total about US$616.72
Station Suite50 m²|2 guests|one king or two singles|separate shower enclosure, living room apart from the bedroom
Nightly total about US$761.83

How the nightly total is built

The published rate carries a plus ten percent, which is the service charge, and every page adds a note that the rate excludes five percent tax. This article uses the additive method throughout, rack multiplied by 1.15, and every nightly total above is calculated that way.

One cross check supports it. The published Checkers breakfast rate with ten percent added comes to exactly the per person figure of about US$23 that appears on the Wing On Travel page. That confirms the plus ten percent on food and drink is a straight ten percent, and that no further five percent applies to dining. The extra clause about five percent tax appears on the rooms pages and not on the dining pages.

Check the mathRack rate x 1.15 = nightly total, then converted at the rate below
The hotel does not publish the order in which the service charge and the tax apply. This article adds them
Rack ratesLocal currency rack rates are not listed here. All money on this site is in US dollars, and any figure carrying the word about is a conversion
Exchange rateEvery conversion uses 1 US dollar to 31.70 New Taiwan dollars on 28 August 2026. Bank of Taiwan spot buying 31.615 and selling 31.765 (posted 07:52 on 28 August), XE mid market 31.6917 (27 August), Bloomberg close 31.8590 (27 August)

Why these are the prices

Because almost nobody pays them. The Caesar Park group website autumn 2026 offer starts at about US$119.84 a night, and at about US$101.86 a night on stays of two nights or more. A combined accommodation voucher from the 2025 ITF online travel fair sold at about US$85.14. In early May 2026 Kayak listed a lowest nightly figure of about US$45.84. Rack and transacted prices sit four to five times apart.

That is normal for an established Taiwanese tourist hotel. The rack rate is a ceiling used for travel agency contracts, corporate agreements and banquet quotations, while individual guests move through packages, travel fair vouchers and online agencies. The one reason to keep the table is that it fixes the relative order of the room types, which tells you how far an upgrade actually moves you.

STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCESet the areas against the totals and two asymmetries appear, and both of them affect what you should book. First, the Standard Single Room at 20 square meters carries the same nightly total as the Superior Room at 26 to 33 square meters, about US$435.33 for both. If your booking system puts the two in the same price band, check the room code twice. Second, the Metro Room at 26 square meters comes to about US$580.44, which is about US$109 more than the 33 square meter Deluxe Room. That extra buys the themed wallpaper and the newer finishes, and the room is seven square meters smaller. Read it the other way and the Deluxe Room at 33 square meters and about US$471.61 is the best floor area on the list.

04 · BATHROOM AND IN ROOM SUPPLIES

Does Caesar Park Taipei have a separate shower? Only one room type in nine

This page covers three things you will discover once you are inside the room. First, of the nine room types only the Station Suite has a separate shower enclosure. Second, since 13 February 2026 the rooms hold no bottled water, and each room has a kettle with a dispenser on the floor. Third, the guest room windows cannot be opened. None of the three is hard to handle, provided you know before you book.

One further point about toiletries belongs to a rule that applies to every hotel in Taiwan rather than to this one in particular, so it sits in the closing disclosure. The practical part is one sentence: pack your own toiletries.

The room does supply large bottles of shampoo and body wash, a three in one mousse for hands, face and shaving, a Japanese style yukata, slippers, towels, a hair dryer and a washlet toilet. Conditioner does not appear on the official list. A Japanese guest made the same point on TripAdvisor and advised bringing your own. The Kayak facilities table, however, does list it. The sources differ, so confirm before you book.

The kettle is worth thinking through in sequence. There is one kettle in the room, and the dispenser is out in the corridor. Two people through a whole night, plus brushing teeth and a cup of tea in the morning, will often run past one kettle. The unhurried version is to fill it once while you are setting the luggage down, rather than pulling shoes on at two in the morning.

Bathroom layout: one room type in nine keeps the water off the floor

Bathroom with a tub, a separate glass shower enclosure and a vessel basin
The version with a separate glass shower. Across the nine official room pages, only the Station Suite lists both a shower enclosure and a tub.Image supplied by Fora Travel

Compare the bathroom icons on all nine official room pages one by one and the result is tidy: only the Station Suite lists both a separate shower enclosure and a tub, and describes the wet and dry areas as divided. The other eight room types show a tub and nothing else. Guest reviews line up with this directly, and page 10 returns to it.

What that means in practice is that the order of showers becomes something two people agree on in advance. The first person finishes and the floor is wet; the second person walks across it. Where the towels and the bath mat sit turns into the decision that matters. It is a small thing, and it happens once every morning.

One more thing surfaces on the second night: the guest room windows and balconies cannot be opened, for safety reasons. Air in the room is entirely the work of the air conditioning, and you have no way to change it by opening a window. Several reviews mention damp and smell, and that follows from the same design. A client note from June 2025 in the advisor system adds that the window in that room was opaque. A window that does not open and does not show you anything. If you are sensitive to smell, run the air conditioning hard for the first hour after arrival rather than dealing with it on day two.

ToiletriesBring your own toothbrush, toothpaste, shower cap, razor, soap and comb. The governing rule is set out in the closing disclosure
Bottled waterNot provided. From 13 February 2026 each room has a kettle and there are dispensers on the guest floors
Dispenser locationsThe official notice says every floor. One TripAdvisor account says the sixth and sixteenth floors
That account predates the bottled water notice. The sources differ, so ask at the desk on arrival
Supplied in roomLarge bottles of shampoo and body wash, a three in one hand, face and shaving mousse, a Japanese style yukata, slippers, towels, a hair dryer
ConditionerAbsent from the official list. Present in the Kayak facilities table
The sources differ. Bring your own if you need it
Washlet toiletListed for all nine room types
BathtubListed for all nine room types
Separate showerStation Suite only. The other eight official room pages do not list one
In room equipmentFree WiFi, flat panel television, satellite channels, coffee and tea making, safe, minibar, corn fiber carpet
Universal socketsThe official icon appears only on the Station Suite. The Metropolis Room text mentions multi purpose sockets. The rest do not list them
Room serviceThe official icon appears only on the Metropolis Room and the Premier Double Double, 06:00 to 23:30. The other seven room types do not list it
Whether it covers the whole hotel is not stated
WindowsGuest room windows and balconies cannot be opened or used, for safety reasons
SmokingNon smoking throughout. Cleaning charge for a breach runs about US$63 to 315
HUMAN FACTORSThe four items on this page are one kind of problem: none of them is difficult, and all of them arrive at the wrong moment. You find the missing toothbrush at eleven at night. You want water when you are already in bed. You meet the wet floor when the other person is waiting. You notice the sealed window on the second morning, by which point the air has been the same air for thirty hours. Every one of them is cheap to solve at the packing stage and awkward to solve in the room. That is the whole reason this page sits at number four rather than at the end.
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEPut the bathtub and the sealed window together and you get the shape of a 1973 building. The plumbing cores were laid out when a hotel bathroom meant a tub and a curtain, and the windows were sealed because the whole tower ran on central air conditioning. The 2012 and 2020 refurbishments changed surfaces, furniture and lighting, and neither of them moved a riser. That is why one room type in nine can offer a shower enclosure and the other eight cannot. Choosing the right room type avoids part of this. It does not avoid all of it.
HOW TO PLAN IT
  • Before leavingPut a toothbrush, toothpaste and a razor in the bag. Sorting it out after arrival is much more trouble.
  • Late arrivalCarry a bottle of water. The room has a kettle, and the water comes from a dispenser on the floor.
  • Before showeringIf you did not book the Station Suite, work out where the towels and the mat go first. Eight room types have a tub and no screen.
  • On arrivalRun the air conditioning hard for the first hour. The windows do not open, so the room has no other way to change its air.

05 · CHECKERS BUFFET

Caesar Park Taipei breakfast: second floor Checkers, 06:30 to 10:00

Checkers is on the second floor. It is the main restaurant in the building and the place where breakfast is served on room packages. It runs four sittings a day, and the third one exists only on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays. If you have planned an afternoon tea for a Wednesday, this page is for you.

Buffet restaurant dining room with red chairs and circular ceiling detail
The dining room at Checkers on the second floor. Breakfast 06:30 to 10:00, and no afternoon tea sitting on weekdays.Image supplied by Fora Travel

The hotel describes the kitchen as local Taiwanese ingredients handled simply, with a salad bar, a Japanese section, carved roast beef, a beef soup poured to order and steamed seasonal fish. In accounts written by people who have eaten there, the Taiwanese counter at breakfast is the section most often singled out: thin noodle soup, rice porridge with small dishes, salty soy milk, braised pork rice, and noodle soups and omelets cooked to order. One account notes a high proportion of Japanese guests at breakfast.

Location2F. Reservations (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2237
Breakfast06:30 to 10:00. About US$23
Lunch11:30 to 14:00. Monday to Friday about US$37; Saturday, Sunday and public holidays about US$44
Afternoon tea14:30 to 16:30, Friday to Sunday and public holidays only. About US$27
Dinner17:30 to 21:00. Monday to Friday and Sunday about US$41; Saturday and public holidays about US$44
Price vintageThese are the official prices effective 1 January 2025. A blog account from December 2024 records a weekday lunch at about US$34, which shows the size of that increase
ChildrenFree under 5 years or 109 cm; half price from 6 to under 12 years, or 110 to 140 cm; full price from 12 years or 141 cm. Where no proof of age is shown, height decides
TakeawayNo takeaway and no boxing up
CorkageAbout US$9 a bottle for wine, about US$19 a bottle for spirits
Private rooms12 to 16 seats each, up to 30 with the partition open, with audio visual and meeting equipment. Breakfast about US$278, weekday lunch about US$416, weekend lunch and dinner about US$521, weekday dinner about US$486, afternoon tea about US$278. A guaranteed count below 12 is charged as 12. Bookings (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2201
Extras and room hireAudio visual and meeting equipment about US$95. Setup and room hire about US$104 an hour, about US$208 an hour beyond the booked time, charged in whole hours
2026 credit card offer blackoutLunar New Year 15 to 20 February, Mother's Day 9 to 10 May, Father's Day dinner 8 August, Christmas 24 to 25 December, New Year's Eve 31 December
PorkThe hotel states that Taiwanese pork is used
RatingGoogle 3.9 stars from 1,884 reviews, per a blog account from mid 2025
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThere is a gap between the four sittings and it lands on a weekday afternoon. Monday to Thursday, Checkers closes at 14:00 and reopens at 17:30, and the afternoon tea sitting does not run at all. Add the Dynasty lunch service ending at 14:30 and the building really does have a stretch with no full meal upstairs. The good news is that Drink Bar on the ground floor serves food from eight in the morning until eight at night, with pasta and braised beef noodles available all day, so the hotel never actually goes dark. The food during that stretch is simply on the ground floor.
HOW TO PLAN IT
  • Afternoon teaPlan it for a Friday, Saturday, Sunday or public holiday. The sitting does not run on other days.
  • Saturday dinnerThe price differs from Sunday. Saturday and public holidays run about US$44, and Sunday drops back to about US$41. One day apart, about US$3 apart.
  • With childrenThe height stick is at the entrance. Without proof of age the charge follows height, with 110 cm the half price threshold and 141 cm full price. If your child is near a threshold, carrying proof of age makes the moment much easier.
  • Weekday afternoonThere is no need to wait until half past five. Drink Bar on the ground floor serves all day.

06 · DYNASTY RESTAURANT

Dynasty opens at ten on Saturday and Sunday, and at half past eleven the rest of the week

Dynasty is on the third floor and serves Cantonese and modern Chinese cooking. Its hours occupy one line on the official site, and inside that line sits the most useful timing in the building: lunch 11:30 to 14:30, last orders 13:30, and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 14:30. Two and a half hours earlier at the weekend, which is how dim sum service works.

The other numbers to hold are the last orders. Lunch ends at 14:30 with orders closing at 13:30, and dinner ends at 21:30 with orders closing at 20:30. Both sittings stop taking orders an hour before the doors close, which is early for a hotel Chinese restaurant.

In practice this means that if you walk in at twenty to two, people are still seated and dishes are still arriving, and you cannot order. For lunch, aim to be inside before one o'clock, and for dinner before eight. At the weekend there is another option, because the doors open at ten.

Location3F. Reservations (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2331 to 2333
LunchWeekdays 11:30 to 14:30, last orders 13:30
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 to 14:30
Dinner17:30 to 21:30, last orders 20:30
Signature dishesGarlic black diamond chicken and Caesar crispy pork knuckle
Menu formatsFamily banquet for 8 or more, booked ahead; table menu for 10, booked ahead; small plates; set sharing menus
Menus are downloadable from the official site. Individual dish prices are not published as a table on the page
CorkageAbout US$9 a bottle for wine, about US$19 a bottle for spirits
PorkThe hotel states that Taiwanese pork is used
2026 credit card offer blackoutSame as Checkers: Lunar New Year 15 to 20 February, Mother's Day 9 to 10 May, Father's Day dinner 8 August, Christmas 24 to 25 December, New Year's Eve 31 December
Domestic travel cardAccepted. This is a Taiwanese government scheme that lets employees claim leisure spending, and it works at this hotel
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEOpening at ten at the weekend turns Dynasty from a hotel Chinese restaurant into a station district breakfast option. Few places around Taipei Main Station are open at ten and serving dim sum, and this one is downstairs from your room. It has a second effect too. If you are here at the weekend on a package that includes breakfast, you actually have two services available. The buffet on the second floor ends at ten and the Chinese restaurant on the third floor begins at ten, so the two join up. Eat on the second floor until ten, then go up one floor for tea. That sequence is a gift from the way this building is stacked.

07 · DRINK BAR, SPA AND THE ARCADE

The Starbucks on the ground floor earns no points, and the basement is a Japanese food street

The dining page lists three outlets, and the building offers a great deal more than three. Drink Bar on the ground floor runs from eight in the morning to nine at night with food available all day, and the ground floor and basement level one hold the Caesar Mall, with five Japanese restaurants, two coffee and tea shops and a convenience store. All of it sits inside the same building, and all of it connects to the metro.

Basement arcade corridor lined with Japanese restaurants and a quick cut salon
The arcade corridor on basement level one. Tonchin Ramen is on one side and Ootoya is further along. This level connects to the metro.Image supplied by Fora Travel

Drink Bar (1F)

Drink Bar runs a We Proudly Serve Starbucks program, brewing Starbucks espresso roast to order on a Swiss automatic machine. The official site also states plainly that this service does not take part in the member accrual, redemption or promotions of the Uni President Starbucks stores in Taiwan or of OPEN POINT. The most common moment for this to matter is when you are already at the counter with the card out. If you were planning to use a Starbucks card or collect points, that does not work here. The beans are Starbucks, and the membership system runs on something else entirely.

On food there are croissants made to order and a soft egg and bacon roll in the morning, with pasta and the chef's braised beef noodles in the afternoon, and the official page states that food runs all day. There is also Taiwanese beer, wine, whiskey and cocktails, and freshly brewed teas including Taiwanese oolong, Shanlinxi high mountain tea and golden buckwheat.

CAESAR Spa

The treatments draw on Chinese five element and meridian work and on Indian Ayurvedic technique. Open ten to eight, with last bookings at seven. The official page does not state the floor. Prices fall into four series, from about US$47 to about US$215.

Drink Bar1F. Every day 08:00 to 21:00. Last orders: food 20:00, drinks 20:30. Buy outs and meeting catering (02) 2311-5151 ext. 2148
Starbucks serviceA We Proudly Serve Starbucks license. No member accrual, redemption or promotions from the Uni President Starbucks stores in Taiwan or from OPEN POINT
CAESAR Spa10:00 to 20:00, last booking 19:00. (02) 2311-5150 ext. 2603. The official site does not state the floor
Spa entry pricesEnergy stone bath, 40 minutes, about US$47. Royal eye care, 40 minutes, about US$50
Spa main rangeFive elements meridian treatment, 60 minutes about US$101, 90 minutes about US$142, 120 minutes about US$177. Aromatherapy treatment, 60 minutes about US$95
Spa top of range24K gold spoon facial, 90 minutes, about US$215. Vital detoxify treatment, 130 minutes, about US$208
The published price list does not say whether a service charge is added. Confirm when booking
Caesar MallShops on 1F and B1, with service tenants on 2F. Sunday to Thursday 11:00 to 22:00, Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 22:30
B1 restaurantsKagetsu Arashi Ramen, Tonchin Ramen, Taiyo no Tomatomen, Ootoya, Anzu Tonkatsu, Louisa Coffee, Sharetea
1F shopsBlack As Chocolate, the Caesar Bakery, 1/3 ONE third, WHAT? CAKE, a FamilyMart convenience store, Fadmart, Laihao
Guest discountShow your room key at the Caesar Bakery for ten percent off everything. The bakery is under the ground floor arcade facing Zhongxiao West Road, 02-2371-1188
Arcade occupancyOne unit of about 198 square meters on B1 is advertised for lease, so the arcade is not fully let
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCERead only the hotel dining page and you would think there are three outlets here and that they close at nine. Count the arcade and the real figure is twelve or more businesses across the ground floor and basement level one, open until half past ten on Friday and Saturday, none of which requires you to leave the building. For a late arrival with an early departure the next morning, that is a material difference. It also explains how a building with three public facilities manages perfectly well: its public facility is Taipei Main Station.
TAKE YOUR TIME One evening, go down to basement level one and stand in front of those five Japanese restaurants for a minute before choosing. Kagetsu Arashi, Tonchin and Taiyo no Tomatomen, three ramen shops side by side in the basement of the first international chain hotel in Taiwan, with the Taipei Main Station underground mall on the other side of the wall. This arrangement took fifty three years to grow, one layer at a time. Which one you pick matters rather less than that.

08 · COSTS OUTSIDE THE ROOM RATE

Does Caesar Park Taipei have parking? No, and the contracted garage has a fifteen minute rule

The booking notes on every room page carry the same sentence: this hotel does not have a parking lot. It is easy to skip, because the facilities tables on several booking platforms say free private parking instead. Take the hotel at its own word: there are no parking spaces in this building.

Since 1 July 2025 the hotel has worked with the Yongtian garage at 50 Zhongxiao West Road Section 1, open around the clock, with a guest rate. To get that rate you have to go to the ground floor service center first and give the plate number, and then complete the discount, the payment and the exit within fifteen minutes.

Parking on siteNone. Stated in the booking notes on the official site
Contracted garageYongtian garage, basement parking at No. 50, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei 100. 02-2370-5266, open 24 hours all year
Guest rateAbout US$1.58 an hour against a standard rate of about US$2.21. Cap of about US$11 in any 24 hours, against a standard cap of about US$13. In force since 1 July 2025
How to claim itAsk at the Caesar ground floor service center and give the plate number. Entry and exit run on plate recognition, the hotel applies a discount only, and you still pay at the machine yourself
The fifteen minute ruleThe discount, the payment and the exit must all be completed within 15 minutes, or the rate reverts to full price
Pay first and it is goneIf you pay without asking for the discount first, the system treats it as settled and no discount or adjustment can be applied
EntrancesUse the Asia Plaza main entrance on Zhongxiao West Road, open 24 hours. The Nanyang Street entrance is not open 24 hours and sits further from the payment machine
Ramps and headroomEnter the ramp at B1; B2 is the gym and you do not pass through it. B3 has 4 high vehicle bays at 200 cm at the entrance and the rest of B3 is 180 cm. B4 is 180 cm at the front and marked 160 cm at the rear. B5 is 180 cm throughout
Payment methodsGoogle Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, EasyCard, iPASS, iCash 2.0 and physical credit cards. Scanning the code adds Apple Pay, LINE Pay, EasyWallet, Visa, Mastercard and JCB. Members of the Cheshire app can drive straight out after the discount

Nearby garages without a hotel agreement

Taipei Main Station east and west basementsEntrances including No. 3 Beiping West Road, basement level one. Weekdays about US$1.89 an hour, holidays about US$2.21, daily cap about US$16. Underground passages lead to Exit M6 or M8
Taipei Main Station west surface lotChengde Road Section 1. About US$1.58 an hour, daily cap about US$9
Zone K underground mallNo. 47, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, B2. Weekdays about US$1.58 an hour, holidays about US$1.89, daily cap about US$11. The mall leads to Exit M6 or M8
Civic Boulevard, Gongzhong sectionNo. 209, Section 1, Civic Boulevard, B1. Weekdays about US$1.26 an hour from 08:00 to 18:00 and about US$0.32 from 18:00 to 08:00, weekday cap about US$9, no cap on holidays
Times Taipei City MallNo. 203, Section 1, Civic Boulevard. About US$1.26 an hour all day, weekday cap about US$7, no cap on weekends and public holidays
Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Station FrontNo. 66, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, B2. About US$3 for the first hour, then about US$1.58 per half hour, no daily cap

Other fixed and possible charges

DepositAbout US$32 per room, refunded at checkout, with card refunds taking 7 to 14 working days
Extra bedAbout US$52 including the ten percent service charge. Subject to room type, and arranged with the hotel in advance
Cot and baby bathFree, limited in number, reserve early
Airport transferThe hotel quotes from about US$69 each way. ezTravel lists about US$59 per trip with three days of notice
The two figures differ. Confirm before booking
Cleaning chargeAbout US$63 to 315 for a breach of the non smoking rule
Destination feeNone. The hotel publishes no daily fixed surcharge of any kind
HUMAN FACTORSThe fifteen minute rule deserves a paragraph of its own. It asks you to complete three actions in three different places inside one window: claim the discount on the ground floor of the hotel, pay at a machine inside the garage, and drive out through the barrier. The cost of failing is the whole amount reverting to full price rather than a small penalty. A second rule is harder still: if you pay before mentioning the discount, the system treats the transaction as settled and nothing can be applied afterward. The most common way it goes wrong looks like this: you drive up to the machine, take out a card, pay, and only then remember that the discount lives back at the hotel. There is no recovery from that point. This is a design that places the operational risk on the user, and the user is usually a first time visitor, mid checkout, with luggage in hand. The workable answer is to fold it into the checkout itself: hand the plate number over while you settle the room, then walk straight to the garage without a detour.
HOW TO PLAN IT
  • Arriving by carStart from the fact that there is no parking lot here. Several platform facilities tables say free parking, and that does not match the hotel.
  • Taller vehicleB3 has only four bays at 200 cm. Everything else runs 160 to 180 cm, so measure a van or a roof box first.
  • Claiming itDo it as part of checkout. Give the plate number to the ground floor service center, then finish payment and exit inside fifteen minutes.
  • Two nights or moreThe guest cap is about US$11 per 24 hours, so two nights is about US$23. Add that to the room rate before you compare.

09 · BOOKING CHANNELS AND MEMBERSHIP

It can be booked through an advisor, and there is no chain loyalty program to earn in

The conclusion goes first. The property does appear in the travel advisor booking system, and it carries no perks program there at all. The only rates available are ordinary online channel rates, and the system itself states that this rate class earns no hotel loyalty points and cannot be combined with perks. The familiar pattern of booking through an advisor for the same rate plus breakfast and an upgrade does not apply here. Since 1 January 2003 the hotel has been independently operated and belongs to no international chain, and there is no record of it in Virtuoso or comparable consortia.

This site checked that property page item by item on 29 August 2026. There is no breakfast, no upgrade, no food and drink credit, no early check in and no late check out. The property description field on the page is empty, there are 0 advisor reviews, and there is 1 client review. What remains is a channel structure built on packages, travel fair vouchers and a free group membership, and the rest of this page sets out how that works.

The channel the hotel has named

Official notice of 15 July 2024: Caesar Park Hotel Taipei has no cooperative relationship with the Dinogo.com platform, guests are asked not to book through it, and reservations made there do not apply at this hotel. This is the single most useful sentence in the article. Hotels rarely name a platform, and a notice of this kind usually means guests have already turned up holding a reservation that could not be honored.

Advisor channelThe property is listed and carries no perks program, with no upgrade, breakfast or early check in arrangement. Checked 29 August 2026
Chain loyaltyNone. Not an international chain, so no point accrual and no status upgrade. Rates through the advisor system likewise earn no hotel loyalty points
Advisor side reviews0 advisor reviews. 1 client review at 4/5, June 2025. That note describes a clean room that felt somewhat dated, an opaque window, friendly staff, and a very convenient basement connection to Taipei Main Station
Star ratingThe advisor system lists 5 star, while some platforms show 4 star under the Giata classification
The two differ. This is a classification difference and does not change the stay
Property descriptionThe description field in the advisor system is empty. The hotel has supplied no official English summary to that channel
GroupsTen rooms or more counts as a group and is negotiated directly with the hotel sales team rather than through ordinary channels
ConsortiaNo record found. Virtuoso, Marriott STARS and LUMINOUS, Hyatt Prive, Hilton Impresario and Four Seasons Preferred Partner do not list this property
Direct bookingThe Chinese site uses the apq.hihotel.asia engine and the English site uses book-secure.com
Invalid channelDinogo.com. Official notice of 15 July 2024: no relationship, and reservations made there do not apply
Caesar VIP membershipFree to join. Buy one get one buffet vouchers, room and dining credits, points. Shared across the group
Caesar Sports CardFree weekday upgrade to a Superior Room, twenty percent off at Checkers and Dynasty, ten percent off at Drink Bar. A ten percent service charge on the original price applies, and it cannot be combined with other offers (notice of 21 May 2026)
Travel fair vouchers2025 ITF online fair: group accommodation vouchers at about US$85.14 each, group buffet vouchers at about US$27 each. A set of ten at about US$268 with ten free brings the effective figure to about US$22 each
Group website offerAutumn 2026: from about US$119.84 a night, and from about US$101.86 a night on two nights or more
Government schemeThe Tourism Administration weekday domestic travel offer gives up to about US$63 off on Sunday to Thursday arrivals. The domestic travel card is accepted
CancellationUnder the Tourism Administration standard contract, a 30 percent deposit is taken. Canceling 14 days or more ahead forfeits 0 percent; 10 to 13 days 30 percent; 7 to 9 days 50 percent; 4 to 6 days 60 percent; 2 to 3 days 70 percent; within 1 day 80 percent; on the day 100 percent
ChangesOnline bookings cannot be modified once confirmed. Any change means canceling and rebooking, with the scale above applied
AgeThe hotel: guests under 18 need an accompanying adult or a signed parental consent form. Hotels.com lists a minimum check in age of 18. Wing On Travel says guests under 20 may not stay without a parent or guardian
Three different statements. Confirm directly before a minor stays alone
PetsThe Chinese site: pets are not permitted, and guide dogs are outside that restriction. The English site renders this as guide dogs are not within this range, which reverses the meaning
A translation error. The Chinese governs: guide dogs are welcome
Recent awardsAgoda 2026 award for brand and service performance, presented 16 April 2026 for the 2025 year. Klook 2026 best hotel award
Luggage serviceA notice of 4 June 2026 announces a luggage delivery partnership

The cancellation table is easier to read as an everyday situation. You book three months ahead, pay the thirty percent deposit, and then work moves your dates twelve days before arrival. Because an online booking cannot be modified once confirmed, the only route is to cancel and rebook, and the 10 to 13 day band forfeits thirty percent of the deposit. Handle the same change fourteen days out and the figure is zero. Two days apart, completely different outcome. If your dates are not settled, waiting before you press confirm is the calmer choice.

STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCESet the rate table beside this page and the whole picture resolves. A room with a nightly total of about US$435.33 sells at about US$119.84 on the group website and at about US$85.14 as a travel fair voucher. That distance has moved past discounting into two pricing systems running in parallel. Three things follow for a reader. First, do not judge whether this hotel is expensive from the rack table. Second, if you are in Taiwan with flexible dates, vouchers and multi night packages are the real entry price here. Third, because there is no consortia program, booking this property through a travel advisor brings no additional amenities, which is the opposite of the international chain properties written up elsewhere on this site.
HOW TO PLAN IT
  • Before bookingCheck that your reservation comes from the official site or a recognized agency. The hotel has stated that Dinogo.com reservations do not apply here.
  • Dates unsettledHold off on the deposit. An online booking cannot be changed once confirmed, only canceled, and cancellation is banded.
  • Two nightsThe group website multi night rate starts at about US$101.86 a night, one band below the single night figure of about US$119.84.
  • Guide dogThe Chinese site governs and guide dogs are welcome. The English page mistranslates it, so call ahead to confirm.

10 · WHAT THE REVIEWS SAY

Across four platforms, location scores highest every time and facilities score lowest every time

The reviews here fall into a very tidy shape. Wherever a platform breaks the score into categories, location is the highest and facilities or property condition is the lowest. The praise and the complaints point at the same fact: a 1973 building standing on the best address in Taipei.

Expedia and hotels.com8.2 out of 10. Cleanliness 8.2, staff and service 8.4, amenities 7.6, property conditions and facilities 7.6, eco friendliness 8.0
Kayak8.0 from 6,524 reviews
ezTravel4.3 out of 5. Location 4.8, cleanliness 4.3, service 4.3, facilities 3.9
Checkers buffetGoogle 3.9 stars from 1,884 reviews, per a blog account from mid 2025

The praise gathers around these points

  • Location. The opening sentence of almost every positive review. Connected directly to Taipei Main Station, with every kind of transport underfoot
  • Cleanliness. Several reviewers use the pairing old but clean to describe the rooms
  • Friendly staff. One English review singles out the buffet team and the person who signed guests in each morning and made a point of speaking English
  • The rooms are not small. A party of two adults and two children wrote that the room and the facilities were dated, and that the room itself was neither small nor unclean
  • Plenty of sockets, good soundproofing, strong air conditioning. Listed together by a reviewer who stayed a week
  • The Taiwanese counter at Checkers. Thin noodle soup, rice porridge with small dishes, salty soy milk, braised pork rice, and noodle soups and omelets made to order

The complaints gather around these points

  • Water on the bathroom floor. One reviewer records no shower curtain and a flooded floor after showering. That matches the official layout described on page 4: only the Station Suite lists a separate shower enclosure
  • The age of the fittings. The same reviewer describes the shower area and the furniture as looking like the 1970s
  • Firm beds and tired bedding. Raised in several reviews
  • No drawers in the room. A long stay reviewer notes there is nowhere to unpack, and guesses the rooms were laid out for business travelers
  • Damp and smell. A one star review reports a musty room, and a companion who developed a skin reaction after one night
  • Breakfast is ordinary. Two reviews describe it as varied but unremarkable
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThe most useful thing in the negative reviews is not the score. It is that one of the complaints can be checked directly against official material. The line about no shower curtain and a flooded floor can be verified from the bathroom icons on the nine official room pages: only the Station Suite carries a separate shower enclosure. That complaint is therefore not an isolated experience but the necessary result of how the room types are configured. The rest of the criticism is about vintage: a 1973 tower, a 2012 surface refurbishment and a 2020 rework of the Premier Rooms, which leaves the hardware uneven between room types by design. Choosing the right room type avoids part of that and not all of it. Several of these reviews rest on small samples, and this site draws no conclusion about overall quality from them.

11 · THE AREA AND THE ALTERNATIVES

A Qing dynasty city gate stands five minutes away, and it is almost a century older than this building

This page is really just the Taipei Main Station district, and you happen to be staying in the middle of it. Five minutes west is the North Gate, or Chengen Gate, built in 1884 and the only gate of the Qing dynasty Taipei city wall still standing in its original form. East is the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store, below are three underground malls, and north across the road is the station itself.

The walk to the North Gate runs west along Zhongxiao West Road, under arcades the whole way, across two intersections. The gate stands in the open ground where Zhongxiao West Road meets Bo'ai Road, on land left behind when an elevated expressway was removed. Beside it is the Taipei Post Office of 1930, and beyond that the Futai Street Mansion of 1910. Most guests never take this walk, because every sign points the other way toward the underground mall.

Taipei Main StationAbout 0.1 kilometers, roughly three minutes on foot from Exit M6. Conventional rail, high speed rail, two metro lines and the Taoyuan Airport metro all share the complex
North Gate, Chengen GateAbout five minutes on foot. The north gate of the Qing dynasty Taipei city wall, completed in 1884
Futai Street MansionWalkable. A 1910 building from the Japanese colonial period, now an exhibition space
Taipei Post OfficeWalkable. Completed in 1930 and designated a municipal historic site
228 Peace Memorial Park and the National Taiwan MuseumWalkable, to the south
Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Station FrontNo. 66, Section 1, Zhongxiao West Road, on the same side of the road. Its B2 garage is also the most expensive option in the table on page 8
Underground mallsTaipei City Mall, Zone K mall and Zhongshan Metro Mall. On a wet day you never have to surface
Q Square and Taipei Bus StationWalkable, to the north
XimendingOne metro stop, or about fifteen minutes on foot
Ningxia Night MarketTwo metro stops, or about fifteen to twenty minutes on foot
Expedia says fifteen minutes and Booking.com says twenty. The sources differ
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial HallTwo metro stops, about two minutes by car
Longshan TempleA few metro stops, about three minutes by car
A distance contradictionHotels.com puts Taipei Subway Station at a nine minute walk and NTU Hospital Station at eight, while the hotel connects directly to Exit M6
Those figures look like block center measurements. The direct connection described by the hotel governs

Other options in the same group

Caesar Metro TaipeiNo. 167 Bangka Boulevard, Wanhua District, opened 2017. 750 rooms, 30 floors, outdoor pool, beside Wanhua railway station. Choose this one if you want a pool
Caesar Park Hotel BanqiaoXinban district, completed 2017. 400 rooms, 31 floors, rooftop infinity pool and the SKY 32 rooftop bar. The exterior takes its form from a sky lantern
Hilton Taipei SinbanNext door to Caesar Park Banqiao. Caesar signed with Hilton in 2017 and brought the Hilton brand back to Taiwan, and page 12 tells that story
Just Palace Hotel Neihu and arTree HotelThe boutique business line within the group
HOTEL CHAM CHAM TaipeiThe younger and more informal line within the group
Caesar Gion Kyoto and Caesar Gora Club HakoneThe group's properties in Japan
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThis page is really answering one question: how much of what you are paying goes on the address? The answer is a great deal of it. Three underground malls, six kinds of transport, a Qing dynasty gate five minutes away and Ximending fifteen minutes away: not one of them belongs to the hotel, and every one of them becomes easy because you are staying here. If your plan is to move around central Taipei, or to catch an early train south the next morning, this location is worth more than any facility inside the building. If what you want is a pool and a sense of holiday, Caesar Metro Taipei and Caesar Park Banqiao in the same group both have one, a few stops away.

12 · THE PARTS NOBODY WRITES ABOUT

Fifty three years ago it was the tallest building in Taiwan, and it now has forty two fewer rooms

Every strength and every weakness in this building can be traced to where it came from. Construction began in 1970 under Huayang Development, the working name was the Jinhua Hotel, and after a management and technical agreement with Hilton in 1972 it became the Hilton Taipei. The architect was Shen Tsu-hai, who also designed Songshan Airport. Twenty floors above ground, two below, and five hundred and twenty rooms, the largest room count in Taiwan at the time.

Exterior of the hotel on Zhongxiao West Road with the surrounding streetscape
The first international chain hotel in Taiwan, and the tallest building in the country in its opening year.Image to follow

The opening date has three versions

This is the hardest item in the article to pin down. The Central News Agency archive feature says the building was completed on 14 April 1973 and opened partially from the fifteenth. The English Wikipedia infobox says it was completed on 23 March 1972 and opened on 15 July 1973. The Chinese Wikipedia says it was handed to Hilton to operate in September 1972. All three point at the same stretch of time and none of them matches another. The date has no bearing on booking a room, and putting it in print means saying plainly that the sources disagree.

What that roof used to do

On opening it was the tallest building in Taiwan, a title it held for about a year until the Grand Hotel passed it on 10 October 1973. Because of that height, the authorities installed a closed circuit fire watch station and a seismograph on the building, and at one time an air force anti aircraft unit was stationed there. That position is now the twenty first floor roof garden, laid with a southern pine boardwalk.

A few firsts

The first international chain hotel in Taiwan. The first ethnic Chinese woman to run one as general manager. The first Hilton to turn a profit in its opening year. Guests over the years included Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Jones, Tina Turner and Bill Clinton during his time as governor of Arkansas.

Hilton left, and then came back

In July 1988 Guoyu Development bought the hotel and renewed the agreement with Hilton. The agreement ended on 31 December 2002, the hotel was renamed Caesar Park Hotel Taipei on 1 January 2003, and the outgoing Hilton general manager Wu Pu-ching stayed on as the first Caesar general manager. Fourteen years later, in 2017, Caesar signed a franchise letter of intent with Hilton and the Hilton brand returned to Taiwan, at Hilton Taipei Sinban, next door to Caesar Park Banqiao. The group that saw Hilton out later invited Hilton back.

1970Huayang Development begins construction, working name the Jinhua Hotel
1972A management and technical agreement with Hilton, handed over to Hilton in September and renamed the Hilton Taipei
1973Completed and trading. Twenty floors above ground, two below, 520 rooms, the tallest building in Taiwan
10 October 1973The Grand Hotel takes the title of tallest building
July 1988Guoyu Development buys the hotel and renews the Hilton agreement
31 December 2002The agreement between Guoyu Development and Hilton ends
1 January 2003Renamed Caesar Park Hotel Taipei
2012A refurbishment costing over one hundred million in local currency, with Yao Jen-lu as design consultant, a DuPont design award winner. Three themes: urban renewal, environmental purpose, energy saving. The guest room tone was set as Relax and Fun
2017Caesar signs a franchise letter of intent with Hilton and the Hilton brand returns to Taiwan
2020The Premier Rooms complete a refurbishment costing tens of millions in local currency
2021One of the first hotels in Taipei to convert to a quarantine hotel during the pandemic, returning to normal operation on 8 August 2022
Today478 rooms. Forty two fewer than in 1973
Public sources do not account for when or why the count fell
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEThree configurations that will affect your stay today were all settled in 1973. First, the guest room windows do not open, which was standard for a centrally air conditioned tower of that period. Second, one room type in nine can divide the wet and dry areas of the bathroom. A hotel bathroom in 1973 meant a tub and a curtain, and the refurbishments of 2012 and 2020 replaced surfaces and furniture without moving a single plumbing riser. What is genuinely old in this building is not the furniture, it is the risers. Third, every lift needs a room key. Because basement level one opens onto the metro concourse, anyone can walk in from the underground mall and stand in the lift lobby, so the access control had to move into the lift. The thing that keeps you dry on a wet day and the thing that makes you find your card every single time are one and the same decision seen from two sides.

13 · ONE DAY AND THE CHECKLIST

How the day runs, and how the twelve things tick off

Lay the timings from the last twelve pages end to end and the day here is framed by two numbers: the sixth floor gym opens at half past six and the twenty first floor roof garden closes at half past nine. Almost everything you might want to do fits inside those fifteen hours.

Day to day, the rhythm of this building is old fashioned: breakfast on the second floor, lunch on the third, the afternoon on the ground floor, the evening in the basement, and the night view from the twenty first. You will ride the lift many times in a day, and every time you will reach for the key card. By the second day that card will be living in the outermost pocket.

How the day runs

06:30The sixth floor gym opens. The sauna is on the same floor
06:30 to 10:00Breakfast at Checkers on the second floor. The Taiwanese counter, plus noodle soups and omelets made to order
Weekends 10:00Dynasty opens on the third floor, two and a half hours earlier than on weekdays. The dim sum window
08:00Drink Bar opens on the ground floor, and the twenty first floor roof garden opens
11:00The Caesar Mall opens, with the ground floor and basement tenants following
11:30 to 14:00Lunch at Checkers. Dynasty runs 11:30 to 14:30 with last orders at 13:30
14:30 to 16:30Afternoon tea at Checkers, Friday to Sunday and public holidays only. On weekdays this stretch belongs to Drink Bar on the ground floor
10:00 to 20:00CAESAR Spa, last booking 19:00
17:30 to 21:00Dinner at Checkers. Dynasty runs to 21:30 with last orders at 20:30
20:00 and 20:30Last orders at Drink Bar for food and for drinks
21:30The roof garden closes. For the night view, go up before this
22:00Gym and laundry close. The arcade closes at the same time Sunday to Thursday and at 22:30 on Friday and Saturday
After 22:00Guests are asked to keep noise down after ten at night, as stated in the official booking notes
THE CHECKLIST · 12 THINGS None of these is required. Pick the ones that suit and leave the rest for another time. Items 1 to 8 happen inside the building or one floor down, and items 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 and 12 cost nothing at all.

Who it suits

Suits very wellAnyone leaving Taipei by rail the next morning. Six transport nodes meet in the basements
Suits very wellBusiness travelers without a car. Gym from half past six, self service laundry, three dining outlets
Suits very wellAnyone visiting in the rainy season or in high summer. You can go from the metro to your floor without reaching street level
SuitsFamilies of four. Two four person room types, free cots and baby baths, though four people in 33 square meters needs planning
SuitsAnyone using vouchers or a multi night package. At about US$101.86 a night, this location is hard to replace
Does not suitDrivers with a lot of luggage. There is no parking lot on site, and the contracted garage has a fifteen minute discount rule (page 8)
Does not suitAnyone wanting a pool, an executive lounge or a resort feeling. None of the three exists here, while Caesar Metro and Caesar Park Banqiao both have pools
Does not suitAnyone who needs the hardware to be new. Facilities is the lowest scoring category on all four rating sources
Does not suitAnyone booking through a travel advisor and expecting amenities. This property carries no consortia program
Note before bookingA tub without a screen takes getting used to. Only the Station Suite has a separate shower enclosure (pages 4 and 10)
Note before bookingAnyone traveling without a toiletry bag. Bring your own toothbrush and toothpaste (page 4)
STRUCTURAL CONSEQUENCEOne sentence closes this building. It has held on to the address it took fifty three years ago, and everything else is slowly getting older. Every strength comes from the location and from that lift running straight up from basement level one. Every weakness comes from the 1973 plumbing risers, the sealed windows, and a bathroom layout that only one room type in nine can escape. At a little over a hundred dollars a night, that exchange is a good one for a great many trips. If your plan is to be out in the city all day, back late, and gone early the next morning, nothing across these thirteen pages will get in your way. If your plan needs the hotel itself to provide something, this one will let you know on the first afternoon.
THREE LAST THINGS
  • Before leavingPack the toiletry bag and carry a bottle of water. The room has a kettle and the water comes from a dispenser on the floor.
  • One phone call+886-2-2311-5151. Three questions: whether accessible guest rooms actually exist, which floors have the water dispensers, and whether the service charge and the tax are added or compounded. Public sources give no settled answer on any of the three.
  • When bookingCheck the channel. The hotel has stated that Dinogo.com reservations do not apply here, and an online booking cannot be modified once confirmed.
TAKE YOUR TIME On the day you leave, put the luggage behind the desk on the ground floor and walk five minutes to the North Gate. An 1884 city gate and a 1973 hotel, eighty nine years apart, now sharing one intersection. Beside the gate is the Taipei Post Office of 1930, and past that the Futai Street Mansion of 1910. This district holds a hundred and forty years inside four city blocks, and most guests only ever see the passage that leads to the metro. Take the walk, then come back for the bags.

This article is written in the anticipatory second person, meaning what you will encounter. Facilities, hours, room types, prices and rules are compiled from the hotel website in Chinese and English, the Caesar Park group website, official notice pages, booking platform facilities tables and public reviews, and public news and encyclopedia sources. The author has not stayed at this property, and nothing here is written as first hand experience. All money is converted to US dollars, and any figure carrying the word about is a conversion, made at 1 US dollar to 31.70 New Taiwan dollars on 28 August 2026, sourced from Bank of Taiwan spot buying 31.615 and selling 31.765 (posted 07:52 on 28 August 2026), XE mid market 31.6917 (27 August 2026) and the Bloomberg close of 31.8590 (27 August 2026). Room areas, published rates, dining prices, opening hours, the bottled water policy, parking information, cancellation terms and age rules all come from the hotel website, checked 28 August 2026. The following points carry conflicting sources, are presented side by side without adjudication, and should be confirmed before booking: (1) the tax method for guest rooms, where the site states plus ten percent and notes that the rate excludes five percent tax without stating the order, and this article adds them throughout at rack x 1.15; (2) the number of room types, where the Chinese summary says 8, the English summary says 6, the rooms page lists 9 and ezTravel says 7; (3) the opening date, where the Central News Agency says completion on 14 April 1973 with partial opening on the fifteenth, the English Wikipedia says completion on 23 March 1972 and opening on 15 July 1973, and the Chinese Wikipedia says handover to Hilton in September 1972; (4) parking, where the hotel states there is no parking lot while facilities tables on Kayak and elsewhere list free private parking; (5) the pool, where the Guest Reservations question and answer page says there is none, the Agoda description mentions a rooftop Sky Pool, and the hotel lists no pool; (6) the executive floor, listed by ezTravel and absent from the hotel; (7) airport transfer pricing, from about US$69 each way per the hotel against about US$59 per trip per ezTravel; (8) the check in age, where the hotel requires an accompanying adult or parental consent under 18, hotels.com lists a minimum of 18, and Wing On Travel says under 20 requires a parent or guardian; (9) the drive to Taoyuan Airport, at 50 minutes per the hotel, 40 per Booking.com and 43 per Expedia; (10) the water dispenser locations, given as every floor officially and as the sixth and sixteenth floors in one guest account; (11) conditioner, absent from the official amenity list and present in the Kayak table; (12) coordinates, at 25.046235 / 121.5164254 officially and 25.0486 / 121.5165 on the English Wikipedia; (13) the number of restaurants, given as 2 in the advisor system amenity data and as three outlets on the hotel dining page; (14) the star rating, listed as 5 star in the advisor system and shown as 4 star under the Giata classification on some platforms. Toiletries: under government policy, hotels in Taiwan have not provided free single use amenities since 1 January 2025, covering toothbrush, toothpaste, shower cap, razor, soap and comb. This property additionally announced on 22 July 2025 that it neither provides nor sells them, and supplies large bottles of shampoo and body wash and a three in one mousse instead. That is a nationwide rule plus one property level tightening rather than a service gap unique to this hotel, which is why the body text does not develop it and it is explained here. One further item is a translation error rather than a source conflict: the Chinese site states that pets are not permitted and that guide dogs fall outside that restriction, while the English site renders this as guide dogs are not within this range, reversing the meaning. The Chinese governs and guide dogs are welcome. Accessibility: the hotel website has no accessibility page and none of the nine room types is an accessible room. The advisor system amenity data, checked 29 August 2026, lists wheelchair accessible, an accessible path of travel, Braille or raised signage and an accessible airport shuttle, and likewise lists no accessible guest room. The facilities tables at ezTravel, Wing On Travel and Lion Travel list accessible rooms, wheelchair access, accessible bathrooms and Braille signage. Taken together: the public area provisions have several supporting sources and the accessible guest room has no first party source at all. Any reader who needs an accessible room should confirm directly with the hotel. Page 9 draws on an item by item check made by this site in the advisor system on 29 August 2026, limited to whether a perks program exists, whether hotel loyalty points accrue, the number of reviews, the amenity list, the star rating and whether the description field is filled in. Rates, commission and booking mechanics are non public information and are not disclosed here. One client note from that system, dated June 2025, is summarized rather than quoted and no individual is identified. The floor on which CAESAR Spa sits, the reason and timing of the fall from 520 rooms to 478, the actual dispenser floors, individual dish prices at Dynasty, convenience store hours, and mattress and toiletry brands could not be found in public sources and are not guessed at here. The review section reproduces published category scores and summarizes review content across differing sample periods, and this site draws no conclusion about overall quality from it; no review is quoted verbatim and no individual is identified. Image selection is drawn from the 43 property photographs supplied through the advisor system, and this property has no advisor photographs. The image slots on pages 2 and 12 remain placeholders, as that source held no identifiable roof garden or building exterior, and the theme hides unfilled image blocks automatically. Prices, hours and package contents change often, so confirm directly with the hotel before booking. This site is an independent advisor of Fora Travel, Seller of Travel registration number 2151995-50.

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