“Tai Urban, Kaohsiung: sublime rooms, nightmare elevators
Wonderful hotel, with one big catch: the elevators. Check-in is on the 24th floor, and to get to your room you have to go back down, cross the lobby and switch to a different set of elevators. Everything involves crossing the lobby to change lifts, and they take forever.
The room itself is the biggest I've ever stayed in: a gorgeous Japanese-style living area, a huge bathroom, and state-of-the-art equipment throughout.
The neighborhood...