Name: Blueocean Hotel
Address: 250-6 Beining Road, Keelung, Keelung, Keelung, 106, Taiwan
Rating: 7

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Blue Ocean (English name)  was a decent hotel with a good location and great views.  Rooms 802 and 803 both had an enclosed veranda with a table and two chairs and windows all around.  The bed was good and the bathroom worked.  Breakfast was a pre-order McDonald's breakfast sandwich and drink that was delivered at 8AM (or 9AM), which was not up to the breakfasts at many other places.  But this hotel was not as expensive as many other places.  The staff was nice, even letting us borrow an extension cord, and the air conditioner was not tied to the keycard power, a nice change from other hotels.  We would stay again and it is a repeat stay for our friends.

Good rooms, great views and mediocre breakfast

Blue Ocean is an adorable little hotel a short drive from downtown Keelung.  It is near the National Taiwan Ocean University, and many of the guests come (as I did) because they have business at the university.  For the tourist or business traveler with some extra time, however, the the hotel is directly across the street from the Bisha fishing port and market, and is convenient to sites such as Jioufen Market and the Gold Ecological Park.  It is easy to miss the Blue Ocean Hotel, as the outside of the hotel has no identification in English, and the lobby does not look like much.  The rooms however are wonderful, spotless and charming, with canopied beds and large baths with jacuzzi tubs.  There is free internet in your room, satellite television with many English channels, and harbor view rooms come with a telescope for watching the boats.  All this for less than $100 US.  On the down side, the free breakfast is brought to your room in a bag from the McDonalds next door - typically a bagel with cream cheese or the Taiwanese version of an Egg McMuffin.  It is OK, but you did not come to Taiwan to eat Egg McMuffins.  There are several restaurants and cafes on Beining Road outside the hotel, though be prepared to point or pantomime what you would like to eat.  The hotel desk staff is extremely polite and tries very hard to be helpful, but communication can be difficult depending on who is on duty.  Lastly, though well known by locals, the hotel can be hard for the driver to find if you are coming by taxi from Taipei (about one hour and $50 US).  In this case, have the information desk at the Taipei airport write the hotel name in characters on a slip of paper that you can give to the taxi driver.  Mine still had to stop twice for directions, but he got me there.

Hidden gem of a hotel

I stayed at level 10 Superior room. Excellent sea view facing the Pi Sa harbour. The room is large with a romantic bothroom. Clean and comfortable. Plenty of parking spaces. Good for visitors with own transport as it is a distance from Keelung city centre.

If you are driving from Yeliu or Taipei to this hotel using GPS, try to follow the coastal road. otherwise the GPS may guide you to the interior road which is very misleading and a much longer route.

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The hotel is extremely dated and old fashioned. Overall the room was clean but facilities such as TV only had local mandarin   channels. Curtains were not very clean and they hover just above the pillows.  The fridge I could not leave running in the room as the motor sound was too loud. The walls are also thin and I listened to an occupant next door snore all night. Carpets were well worn and not particularly clean. The views over the harbour are  lovely at a distance but the general area is unkept and in disrepair. A walk around the local area it stinks of boat fuel, it’s not somewhere you could sit or relax. 
The hotel is situated right on an extremely busy road and it has constant traffic 24/7. The state of the windows does not block out the noise which is constant. If you’re not used to traffic noise then don’t opt to stay here. 
Next door is a handy 24/7 small supermarket and there are a couple of noodle and fish restaurants nearby but it’s limited and it’s very local food only. 
Most tourist attractions are a min half hour walk either way or you can get the bus, there is nothing at this hotel point other than the harbour area which only seems to offer pre booked boat tours and a kids toy and kite hire. 
As a stop over or on a budget the hotel is ok but there are other options with better and more modern facilities not too far away in Badouzi but obviously higher rates. 
Staff are friendly but most do not speak any English at all and I was not aware of any food or bar facilities in the hotel. If you want to leave luggage it is tagged and left in the foyer which is not ideal. 
 It just appears to be a tiered old 10-11 story building with 3 rooms on each floor. Despite nice staff I would not stay at this hotel again. 


Very dated facilities

We stayed 2 nights at this hotel because everything else was booked in Keelung. The room was small, smelled cigarette, and had no view because of the glass block window.
There is no restaurant or dining facility inside the hotel, so at night you choose something from the McDonalds breakfast menu, and they deliver it to your room at 8 or 9am.
The hotel is far from everything.

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