Location. The Regent Taipei Grand Formosa, located in the city center transportation hub of Taipei, Taiwan, is one kilometer from Taipei Main Station and four kilometers from the Shilin Night Market. Hotel Features. The hotel offers a business center and function rooms. High speed wired and wireless Internet access are available in public areas for a fee. The hotel offers seven restaurants serving Western and Asian cuisine, a bar and a Japanese dessert stand. Dishes offered range from shabu shabu hot pot cuisine to a variety of buffets, contemporary Cantonese cuisine and Western steaks. Wellspring Spa provides massage, wraps, facials, combination packages and Hawaiian and Chinese treatment techniques. The hotel also includes a health club, a sauna, a spa tub, a steam room, aerobics and yoga classes and a rooftop outdoor pool. A playground also is on site. Pets are not permitted in the hotel.

Guestrooms. The 24 story hotel’s 538 guestrooms offer contemporary décor in subdued shades of off white, brown and tan. Amenities include wall mounted flat panel televisions, DVD players, wireless Internet access for a fee, direct dial phones with complimentary local calls, desks, safes, minibars and refrigerators. Rooms also offer Wellspring Beds with temperature sensing and pressure relieving functions, a pillow menu and large marble bathrooms with deep soaking tubs and separate showers. In room massage is available.

Expert Tip. Taipei’s National Palace Museum houses one of the most prominent collections of Chinese art in the world. Exhibits include calligraphy, painting, jade, bronze, documents and rare books, ceramics, musical instruments, lacquerware, cloisonné and carvings. The museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is NTD160 (US$5.25).