This review is for Joan's place on Richmond, 2nd floor.
My husband and I stayed at Joan's studio on the 2nd floor the last week of September. Based on the reviews, we had anticipated some noise with construction across the street. The noise level is exceptionally loud. The building across the street is undergoing construction and we expected some early morning noise. Unfortunately, during our stay we had noise starting at 3AM!
Joan said construction usually starts at 6am (told us after the fact- she did not make it transparent in her description - just said "potential for noise"). We saw that one review did mention 6am, so we were okay with that. However, 2 of the 3 days, noise started at 3AM. Workers were unloading equipment and trucks were beeping from backing up. Granted, the hard construction and glass breaking didn't begin until 5-6am. Being woken up at 3AM was not how I envisioned our vacation. Ear plugs do not help at 3am. Had I known about how bad the noise situation was, I would have stayed elsewhere, but it was too late and booking last minute at a hotel would have cost us even more. The 3rd day, the construction did start at 6am. We were so fatigued that we could not wait to end our vacation and go home to sleep in our own bed.
The apartment was clean and nice. At the end of the day, I don't care how modern and nice the apartment is if you cannot get sleep. I wish the host was more transparent with noise level.