This place is perfect to walk everywhere and a truly amazing historic apartment, very spacious. We would stay again. It is first floor, but you do have two sets of stairs to reach your room. The street noise did not bother us with windows closed and there is a portable air conditioner in Master bedroom you can use. Bring earplugs if you are a light sleeper but we had no problems with noise with windows closed at night. The building is very historic from 1200.