Shuanglian Yes Hotel is the reason hotels receive stars - as in 1,2,3...stars. Shuanglian Yes is the reason 2 star hotels get 2 stars. Positive aspects include cleanliness and up-to-date plumbing, furniture, and air handling. I can write not much else positive about it. First, finding it is difficult, even for travelers who can read Chinese; I am in this group. The only signal one has stumbled across the place is the street address number posted on the outside wall. This marker is beside a plain white door. Yes, Shuanglian Yes doesn't have a sign. To get through the front door, the prospective lodger must know enough to use a phone on the outside wall. Once contact is made with a manager, which is not always assured, the door must be unlocked from the inside. Check-in floats somewhere between hit and miss; Shuanglian Yes has no front desk. Upon entering the tiny vestibule, guests may register with the help of an employee, who may or may not have a record of one's reservation. (Yes, this happened.) Fortunately, the employee can call someone else to see if a "confirmed" reservation actually made it into the hotel's records system. Bizarre, and not any way to be an accommodating host in the travel industry. Finally, Shuanglian Yes suffers from a too-common Taipei hotel condition: Rooms do not have windows. Weather is therefore a daily surprise. But, to the good, the hotel is very quiet, except for a jackhammer's racket from 8 to 11am.