The Path: Step 9 Room 23 or How I Escaped the First Time

Room 23 has 17 doubles and the words 'three', 'to', two'. 'to'.
Hmm, 3 'two's. Therefore, 17 times 2 = 34. No. 3+2+2+2=9
Thus, 28 was redundant, maybe a mistake?
The time is  11:05 or 1:55.
Oh, 17 - 9 = 8. (17 + 9 = 26 Nope.)
Let's try room 8.