Combining contemporary decor and luxurious accommodation, this property creates an inviting ambiance for you to enjoy when you are in Hualien.
Location
Situated in the world-renowned Taroko Gorge National Park, the Grand Formosa Taroko Hualien is close to the central cross-island highway, Liwu River cross and the precipitous gorges. This property is 40 kilometres from the airport and 42 kilometres from the Hualien Train Station.
Rooms
This hotel offers 212 well-appointed accommodation units that have been elegantly furnished with an array of in-room amenities to ensure you a pleasurable stay.
Restaurant
The Taroko Restaurant serves delicious international cuisine for you to feast on. The Tianhsiong Shren Restaurant serves delectable Chinese cuisine for you to enjoy. You can sip your favourite drink at the cosy bar.
General
This property offers well-equipped meeting rooms that can accommodate up to 380 guests for organising various important events. Recreational facilities like the gymnasium, sauna and swimming pool can be utilised during leisure to tone up your body.
Area
Taroko Gorge
Room Facilities
Air conditioning
Cable / Satellite TV
Hairdryer
Mini bar
Private bathroom / Ensuite
Radio
Telephone
Hotel Facilities
Banquet facilities
Cocktail bar
Conference facilities
Disabled facilities
Gymnasium
Laundry facilities
Lounge
Parking facilities
Restaurant
Room service
Safe deposit box
Sauna
Swimming pool
Extra Information
- 40 km to the Airport
- 42 km to the Train Station (Hualien)
- 45 km to the City Centre
Contacts
18 Tian Hsyang Road
Shiou Lin Township Hualien
Price
from 102 USD
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I just stayed at the Grand Formosa for 3 nights. The location can’t be beat, and if you don’t have a car/scooter/bike, I highly recommend you stay here as you are in the park and can easily access the hiking trails via shuttle, bus and taxi.
Well situated, friendly and helpful staff. We had an enjoyable stay in beautiful and interesting surrounds. Highly recommended.
Mountain or river view rooms are the best. Interior rooms look onto each other and large courtyard…. no privacy!
the Grand Formosa is an excellent option to explore Taroko National Park. Looking at the facade of the hotel a paint job may do. However, the rooms are clean and spacious. The facilities are – for such a location – very good. The service received by the staff was warm and friendly. There are two restaurants in the hotel and both serve decent food (one Chinese, the other buffet). I would definitely choose the Grand Formosa again.
It’s not quite 5 star, but the staff is very friendly and it’s in a great location. We had an inside-facing room (not facing the river) and had 2 great nights of sleep. I’ve heard that the river-facing rooms are better (for the view), but you’re going to spend all day staring at that river anyway. I also liked the design of the room – very daring to have a window from the bathtub to the bedroom. I took my baby daughter to swim in the downstairs indoor pool and she loved it. It was a bit early in the year to swim in their outdoor, top-of-the-roof pool, but that pool was beautiful.
The food at the hotel is extremely boring. This is probably very helpful to the foreigners staying there, but I’m sure they can come up with better dishes to satisfy non-adventurous palates without resorting to pasta (in Taiwan?), mortadella-like cold cuts (once again, in Taiwan?), or plates of sliced cheese.
A well maintained hotel in a beautiful setting. Reasonable dining facilities for Western and Chinese tastes. Courteous and efficient staff.
Very comfortable and spacious rooms, lovely outdoor pool and free shuttle bus to and from train station. Food not up to 5* standard and they could provide more help to get to the different sights/walks in the Taroko Gorge for those guests without cars.
The hotel is in the TienShang about 40km from Hualien. Its very remote and nothing else in the area but a great escape from the busy city. The hotel looks a bit basic but is surrounded by a gorgeous backdrop of mountains and greenery. Staff are very friendly and helpful. The food from the buffet was pretty good with a decent variety to please most. I plan to stay there again but for a longer period of time in order to explore the surrounding hiking trails as we only had time to cover 2 of the trails in 1 day.
Instead of rushing all the way back to Hualien city , this is a good hotel to stay over a night after all the walking in Taroko. Price a bit pricey , however, there is swimming pool , a reasonable game room .. foc billiard and table tennis. There is cultural show on weekend night. Take a torch and wonder out at night time .. it is a different feeling. plan your dinner and breakfast well .. to avoid the tour group crowd. We took a 4 bed room .. it is spacious and can actually, take in another 4 person with sleeping bags. If you on the free and easy .. try their ala carte menu , instead of buffet. reasonable price and taste good …. ..:-)
the hotel is located at a very secluded place but that’s the point of a breakaway from city life. the food in hotel is very expensive. food are seriously limited. other than that, everything was perfect.
thing to improve is the transportation to the hotel is not well marketed. alot of distractions from local transports preventing us to find out more information about the hotel’s transport.
The Grand Formosa is a very dated concrete 1970′s design hotel. It is however set in a great location for all the sights of Taroko Gorge. I suspect due to lack of competition, the rooms though clean and presentable are very dated- our room had a glass pane between the bathroom and to the bedroom (why?) and the whole room looked onto a sparse central concrete courtyard. The food is not very good (poorly cooked with poor ingredients) considering the availability of excellent quality cuisine elsewhere in Taiwan. The hotel staff are very helpful and will lend you flashlights for those dark-tunnelled walking trails. Overall convenient location but the hotel needs some competition to motivate it to update and improve its quality.