Name: Sun Moon Home
Address: No.78, Pinghe Ln, Talintsun, Talintsun, Talintsun, 555, Taiwan
Rating: 9

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Sun Moon Home

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The staff are super friendly. The breakfast was included, which was excellent. And, must try their dinner and reserved in advance. Highly recommended

優宿

The rooms are amazing. The host of the property was accommodating and friendly. I recommend this place for anyone looking to stay in a very natural and traditional setting yet still close enough to enjoy Sun Moon Lake. Rent bikes in town and make sure to bring things you will need as there aren't any stores in a reasonable walking distance. We rode around Sun Moon Lake and were quite naive about the length of some of the hills, but it was a great experience all in all. The host's father A-Ba makes some great dinner so make sure to try it out.

Great unique stay at Sun Moon Lake

when we lived in, we all enjoy the relax and refresh around the whole environment, especial we eated the handmade dinner by a lovely father in a old style place.

Thank you all -- SUN MOON HOME

lOVELY FAMILY

Refresh environment

It was a family vacation for us at Sun Moon Lake and we booked a guest house for four persons for two days, which is one of five guest houses there with old Japanese Zen styling and atmosphere.  Meals are served at the B&B manager's own family home just a few steps from the guest houses. Home cooked style breakfast, prepared by ex-chef family member of the B&B management, is provided, and dinner is optional but good value for money. The location is quiet and serene and not very close to the tourist attractions so transport needs to be arranged if not driving. There are two very child friendly and playful dogs for those traveling with kids and looking for a wholesome B&B experience while sightseeing in Sun Moon Lake area.

Pleasant bed and breakfast (and dinner) 

We stopped for a coffee at Sun Moon Home during our bike trip around the Sun Moon Lake. Best decission of the day! Friendly people, nice scenary and cutest dog. If we had known about this place, we would have stayed here.

Coffee stop

It is a nice and relaxing place to stay. The owner is friendly and the dinner and breakfast are fantastic. The location is not that convenient if you don't have your own car. But the owner will help you to check the bus schedules and drop you at the bus stop. It is a place you want to visit again.

Nice and relaxing place

Beautiful Japanese-style cottages, family-run by a young man and his father, and homecooked meals. This place looked very promising on the internet. Although at around NTD4,500/night for a cottage for 4 persons with an additional NTD800 for an extra matress was unusually high for a homestay in a village outside the popular tourist area of Sun Moon Lake, we thought the experience would correspond to the price.

Unfortunately, even after two years of running this homestay, we sincerely feel the young proprietor still has a lot of customer-oriented services and management skills to work on as some guests are looking at the whole package and not just at the facilities alone.

1) Location
This place is at least 6 to 7 km from the nearest town where the restaurants, cafes, and hotels are. If you don't have your own form of transportation or you want to be near the town, this place is not a good choice. Furthermore, the village doesn't seem to have restaurants or food outlets, and no convenience stores. We were fortunate that the proprietor gave us a ride to one end of Sun Moon Lake, so that we didn't have to wait for the public bus to tour around the lake. Incidentally, the proprietor doesn't have any info on the bus schedule for buses going to and coming from Sun Moon Lake. There is no info for hired taxi as well. This place is obviously aiming for tourists with their own vehicles.

We had stayed in similar homestays during our 30 days in Taiwan. The other homestays offer local bus schedule, contact number of hired taxi drivers, and/or bicycles when their locations are not within walking distance to restaurants and shops. When we compared Sun Moon Home with those homestays with similar surroundings, Sun Moon Lake losts some points in customer-oriented services.

2) Transportation
Our public coach bus from Taichung city dropped us off at the bus stop along the main road outside the village. The distance from the main road to this homestay is about 800m. After giving a call to the proprietor, he picked us up with no extra cost.

3) Orientation & Recommendations
The check-in process was simple with the exchange of payment for keys to the cottage after our passport/visa info was noted. Only upon our enquiry, the proprietor gave us a brief orientation of the surroundings. However, when we asked for a map which many homestays in Taiwan normally provide, there was none because he ran out of maps. There is no notice board with sightseeing and transportation info like many other homestays we had been to during our 30-day round the island trip. It seemed that the proprietor expected his guests to come with those info.

4) Breakfast/Meals
Breakfast is included and it is homecooked. Although it is the standard rice porridge with various dishes like many homestays and B&B in Taiwan, the quality is much better than average. Every dish tasted even better in the dining room of their 100+ year-old house.
Since there was no restaurants in the village, we pre-booked the homecooked dinner when we check-in. Like the breakfast, the dishes were delicious. However, the price was 30% higher than the restaurant in town and the portions were slightly less than the standard serving in the restaurant in town. Since the raw materials came from the village, and this village is not a upscale resort town, we found it difficult to justify the high price, even for a homecooked meal.

Furthermore, when we asked for additional steamed rice as we were each initially served half a bowl of steamed rice, the proprietor's young cousin told us they were out of steamed rice! We didn't bother to look for the proprietor to ask as he didn't pop in to check on us during the meal either. When we mentioned this to him after dinner, he told us there was another pot of steamed rice which his cousin didn't know about. He apologized and drove us to a nearby convenience store when we asked to get some snacks for our half-full stomachs. We just laughed it off as one of the quirks of staying in a homestay. Again, for the premium price of the meal and the premium price of the cottage, all these quirks should not happen.

5) Rooms and Facilities
There are only 5 cottages. Each cottage has two queen-sized mattresses on the floor, tatami style. Besides the usual TV and A/C, each bed has an electric heating liner since there is no heater. We actually didn't notice the heating liner until we checked out the next morning.

There is a small Japanese-style tea area next to the bathroom with a view of the yard surrounding the cottage. The construction of the window panels inconveniently blocks your view of the yard when you are sitting at the tea table.

The beautiful bathroom has a big tub but the low water pressure takes an hour to fill. This doesn't work well when there is more than one person taking turns to use the tub.

6) How We Felt About Our Stay
We toured around the island for 30 days and picked homestays 80% during our trip. Thus, we have more than a few similar homestays to compare with before we came to Sun Moon Home during the last part of our trip.

We really wanted to like this place, especially after learning that the proprietor left his life and job in the city to spend time with his father. The aestatically appealing cottages next to the proprietor's 100+ year-old family house surrounded by village houses and vegetable farms was certainly something we don't get everyday. We also like the easy-going nature of the proprietor and his friendly father. We certainly enjoyed the homecooked meals.

However, the faclities must also be accompanied by professional and customer-oriented services when one is charging a premium over similar homestays in Taiwan. We hope the proprietor will look into the feedback we shared with him during our stay and strengthen the various areas, so that his homestay doesn't become one of those one-off stays.

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