This is really a nice hotel. The rooms, while not huge, are well laid out and quite comfortable. The entire second floor of the hotel it's open space for hotel guests, including very comfortable chairs and sofas, free laundry, and tables, microwaves, plates and utensils, etc. for eating. It’s hard to overstate how handy this is. The hotel is quite new. I was there when the big earthquake struck Hualien, and because the hotel is new and built to modern standards, it handled the quake easily, with no issues. Again, hard to overstate how good that was. The neighborhood is very walkable has tons of restaurants and groceries. And, as others have mentioned, a really convenient transit station.