The living room windows did not dampen the sounds of church bells, construction work, delivery vehicles. An even greater concern is the noise from the occupants in the upstairs apartment. The sound of people using the bathroom and walking were very pronounced and equally disturbing.

The apartment has little if any soundproofing.

All the apartment windows - except the living room - overlook the same-level garbage area for the building so you can not leave the bedroom, bathroom or kitchen windows open - especially at night - for security reasons, or perhaps for reasons of smell and insects in the summer.

Also a solid sleep in not always possible even with these windows closed. We were awaken for the day by the garbage collection outside our bedroom around 06:00.

Another issue regarding the windows is that this apartment has no a/c or fans for air circulation. When we had to close the bedroom window, we opened the living room window but found that the noise and street light and/or daylight to be a problem. In the end, we slept with all apartment windows and all apartment doors shut. This meant that the bedroom doors were closed and the bathroom door was closed at night.

The air quality suffered but closing all the windows and doors was the only way to dampen light and sound and still have reasonable safety.
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The location is not as nice as I had hoped it would be. It is difficult to hail a taxi. The Stoget “walking street” limits vehicular access plus the adjacent one-way streets added about 15-20 Euro to each trip that we took.

Taking a taxi home after an evening out is more expensive because of this location.