Name: JS Hotspring
Address: No. 23, Hongye Village, Lishan, Lishan, Lishan, 979, Taiwan
Rating: 8

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JS Hotspring

This family run hotel has an attached outdoor hot spring. The hotel is eclectic and has a certain homely charm to it. We had one of the better rooms which included a onsite hot spring bath. The rooms are a bit dated but large and clean.

The owner speaks good English. The hotel serves only breakfast which is very good and includes a lot of local specialities. For other meals unless you drive, there is a small shop in the hotel or a family mart a couple of hundred meters down the road.

The outdoor hot spring consists of 4 baths of different temperatures, the water is a rusty brown/red colour as the spring has a high iron content.

The Jui Sui is over 100 years old, and a little time worn.
But the hot spring bath is big and hot, the staff are friendly, the location quiet.

Spread along a forested mountainside, home to songbirds and monkeys - watch for their roaming flock of entertaining geese.

Rooms have their own hotspring baths, but no view.
There is a fine view out over the valley from the breakfast patio (but breakfast itself was poor, and served on styrofoam plates).
No dinners. There's a 24hr mart nearby on the main road. 

New section rooms are large and clean, but at the bottom of a steep hill.

Bus 1136 runs 4 times a day from the centre of Ruisui, and stops 20m north of the rear (west) entrance of the station. Afternoon departure at 13h20.
Excellent Japanese style restaurant outside the main entrance of the station. Beer and wine and sake on offer.

Took a train to Rui Sui from Hualien for the day to spend the day at the spring, but did not stay at the hotel.  They have large pools of hot water (hot, medium, warm) and a cold pool as well.  They have showers also.  It was a nice relaxing day.

We stayed here during our biking trip from Hualien to Taitung. The hotsprings were amazing to relax the painful muscles after a long day of biking. The staff of the hotel was also very friendly although their English was limited. 
The price was a bit too high for a budget trip but worth it if you are looking for nice hotsprings. 


The environment is not that great but the service is good and the hot spring is very comfortable! The price is reasonable! TWD 200 per person, about USD $6...... you can have a private room to yourself/yourselves (for a couple) though the tub looks ugly. It is said that it existed for more than one hundred years but I didn't do the fact check. Anyways, if you want a budget/cheap hot spring, it is a good place to go! 環境不是很好但服務不錯，而且溫泉很舒服！價格合理，台幣200錢一個人，你可以有一個私人泡湯房，適合情侶或個人。據說是百年老年，但我也沒有去考究。如果你想要泡平價溫泉的話，是個不錯的選擇。

Okay, so my father and I decided to do a swing of Hualien County to check out all of the natural springs places, and after getting off at the  RuiSui rail station, we rode around in a taxi to take in the villages of Hongye and the next village to check out the places to stay at with the natural spring baths. We actually stopped at this hotel first and then went past to the next village (even smaller than Hongye) to look at another, but after comparing the baths and the prices, we settled in on Jui Sui Hot Sping Hotel. 
We were not disappointed. This place has large pools from the natural springs that come in from the mountain. The natural spring water has a very high iron content, which makes the water a brownish color (will temporarily stain whites!), but the water was very nice.
We picked a basic Japanese-style room, which means a small room with straw mats for bedding. It included a small closet, and was pretty basic, but we really didn't need very much, as we were only staying for one night. 
So the not so positive items first: you will need to bring your own towels, and you should plan to buy your lunches and dinners in advanced or go elsewhere. While they do sell snacks and instant noodles, if you want something a bit more, you will have to plan ahead or head out to the town. 
Another warning. The village is pretty sparse, especially during the week (it's more of a weekend getaway), and there are only a few restaurants open (we were only able to find one at night in the village, but there are more if you head back to the east side of route 9 closer to the rail station) Facilities could be a bit better, but again, we didn't expect a four-star western-style resort (there are better hotels in town if you are looking for that), but our primary demands was the bath facilities, which were quite nice. The staff speaks Mandarin & Taiwanese, with very limited English, so be prepared. The Japanese style rooms also don't offer very much noise protection, so when the staff was up in the morning and eating breakfast (and getting the kids ready for school), it was a bit noisy, but since it was a weekday, there weren't a lot of other guests that were there shuffling about.

Some positive notes: There were other nicer rooms that offered more western-style rooms and private bathrooms (more money), and wifi was included, which was awesome (Wifi is not as accessible in the rural areas of Taiwan). My father did learn that breakfast was included when we checked in, but his expectation was low (he expected only congee) So it was a pleasant surprise in the morning when I went to check out the breakfast offerings, I was excited to report to my father about the spread. It was a full Tiawanese-style spread, with fried eggs (owner was the one frying the eggs to order), with congee, rice, meats, tofu, veggies, coffee, tea and all sorts of food. We were not disappointed and even had seconds. Coffee, (according to my dad after speaking with the owner-picture included in my photos, but he is a bit older now), was not of the local variety, due to cost.

All of the other amenities are included, which includes the drying machine (basically just a spinner for wet bathing suits, etc.), hair dryer, etc. Only thing you would need to pay for would be from the snack/food/drink areas. The other hotels that I saw required you to feed coins for you to use these items.

Overall, it was a great experience at the establishment, and if you are not looking for high-end lodging, but would like to not spend a lot of money (my father and I paid the equivalent of under $50 for both of us for the night), Jui Sui Hot Spring Hotel should be on your list.

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Good place during a long biking trip

Old Hot Spring "百年老店"

Nice family run hot spring hotel

If you are not expecting a Four Seasons experience, but decent service at a great price, look no further

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