This is a spacious, comfortably furnished apartment with good equipment. However, it has serious downsides: a steep fire-escape access/exit, loud traffic noise on all sides from 4 lanes on Macquarie St, Davey St and Evans St, as well as 3 lanes of traffic coming into the very popular 9/11 Bottle shop right next door, and searing summer western sun which pours relentlessly through both bedroom and lounge windows leaving no option but to shut the curtains, so it then felt like being in a cave. Although there were mobile air conditioners supplied in the bedrooms and lounge, the air still felt heavy and oppressive and we needed them on day and night. The large windows were in an unusual state in that they had been limited to be opened to only about 10 centimetres and chocks of wood were supplied to keep them open. They were heavy to lift up with one hand, while simultaneously trying to insert the chock of wood with the other. It was a somewhat perilous exercise in that one’s hand inserting the chock of wood was in danger of being injured. Also, at times when trying to insert the chocks of wood, they almost fell out the window, as there are no fly screens, creating the potential for striking someone walking below in the lane way between this building and the old gasworks building. In our opinion, the views from the windows were very uninspiring, with the exception of one from the little sitting room adjacent to the front bedroom, which looks on to The Hog’s breath cafe and surrounds. The first photo on the website showing a lovely view over the Derwent River and Tasman Bridge is not a view obtainable from this apartment.