Fullon Hotel Taoyuan Airport Access MRT A8

Rooms and decor

The rooms are a real selling point here. Standards start at 39 sqm, bigger than the 28-32 sqm you usually get from a 4-star in Asia, with enough floor space to open two big suitcases without them bumping. The look is warm wood tones in a modern-Japanese style, and you get a sofa, a work desk, a fridge, a kettle, a safe and a vanity. Bedding is fine-weave, the pillows let you pick your firmness, and the blackout curtains seal tight for sleeping off a late flight. The bathroom runs a rain shower with strong, quick-to-heat water over a faux-marble basin.

Food and amenities

Fullon A8 keeps a real hot-spring onsen on the 6th floor, open late, which helps you drop into a deep sleep after a long-haul flight. Next to it sit a spa and a 24-hour fitness centre. The ground-floor restaurant serves a breakfast buffet covering Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Western dishes, and the staff speak good English — they will book HSR tickets, a taxi or a Taipei restaurant on the spot. Real guests scored facilities 8.7, value 8.6 and rooms 8.8.

Location and getting there

Airport MRT A8 is in Guishan, right beside Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and the station connects into the hotel through a lift that runs 24 hours — you reach the lobby from the platform without stepping outside once. The Express takes about 18 minutes to Terminal 1 or 2, and 17 minutes the other way to Taipei Main Station. Business travelers with an early Taipei meeting and an evening flight out love that: roll out of bed and you are on the train. Gloria Outlets is about 10 MRT stops away, roughly 25 minutes.

Things to know before booking

The one real catch is the setting — this is a hospital and office district, so there is nothing to eat or wander to once it gets dark. There is also no direct airport shuttle; the MRT is your only ride, though at 18 minutes it is quick. And the place feels less like an airport hotel than the ones clustered by A14a, so plan your terminal timing around the train rather than a 5-minute van.

Our take

Fullon A8 fits business travelers flying in for a morning Taipei meeting and out that evening, couples folding a transit night into one city day, and families who value a big room over being right at the terminal. From around $108 a night you get a 39 sqm room, a hot-spring onsen, the MRT inside the building, and an airport run that is half the time of staying central in Taipei. Real guests give it 8.5, with rooms at 8.8 — and we'd book it as the best-value 4-star in the Taoyuan airport group.