RSL Cold & Hot Springs Resort Suao

Air con was poor, too hot in the evening, couldn't turn it higher. Food was poor quality, they close the main restaurant due to a main function and only serve food in the bar with small selection. Even breakfast was poor, I asked for earl grey tea which they'd never heard of. Nothing around the neighbourhood to do. But the hot spring is very nice.

The location in Suao is literally the end of several train lines. The RSL hotel within walking distance from the station -- although they offer shuttle service -- is a bit remote, with little to do in the small town but walk down to the harbor and enjoy the quiet scenery. However RSL is most certainly a destination-hotel. The public swimming pool-sized outdoor and indoor pools range in temperature from ice cold to steaming hot, and many offer jet features that massage. The in-room cold and hot tubs are spacious enough for two, going quite deep so you can sit and enjoy the water. The rooms are about the average size of a Western hotel room, except about a third of the room was occupied by the tubs. The bed and bedding was luxuriously soft, and may be too cushiony for some. But given Taiwanese hotels propensity for rock hard mattresses, this was welcome. Breakfast at the hotel was very good, if a little odd. It was in courses, with fruit and a bread basket and then a main course consisting of a nicely done hamburger. We did not try dinner at the hotel, but the harbor seafood restaurants were quite good.

The hotel inside is good and room is nice and in good condition. However, there are not many things to do nearby the hotel and there is no restaurant at night inside the hotel.