Tainan

On this trip to Tainan, I had originally planned to stay at Chengyi Light Travel, which I’d had a great experience with last time. But I never expected that beds in Tainan would be so hard to come by over the Qingming long weekend. Still, it worked out well — it gave me the chance to discover an amazing hostel called Wo Tainan WoW Tainan. A happy accident, haha! WoW Tainan is a very local hostel, and its interior design is a lot of fun — that’s the main reason I like it so much. Wandering the corridors, you always stumble across interesting murals; no matter how tired I was, I wanted to walk through the whole building and collect all the different murals. On top of that, it has every facility you could need and is extremely backpacker-friendly! ...

I’d written down Light Hostel in my notebook a long time ago, and this trip to Tainan finally gave me a chance to stay there! I was a little wary of budget hostels run as businesses. I was afraid they’d be too commercial and lose the warmth a backpacker hostel should have, and that being so cheap would mean a lot of bad surprises. But Light Hostel completely exceeded my expectations and brought back my love for backpacker hostels! ...