I also tried monovision contacts and was OK with it during the day, but like you did not find the vision good enough at night. I briefly considered monovision correction with an IOL when I get the cataract surgery done, but that seems too extreme a thing to take a chance on. Some do it though.
I think I will go for the aspheric toric lens, but may change my mind before my time comes up. Here is a link to another short article on the types of lenses. I believe there is also one other more basic choice than the ones they describe in the article. That is the spheric lens.