We stayed at Jekaterina's place in Early September,
Now let me start with saying the communication was great, the check in is easy, the location being in Old Riga is wonderful, the flat is small but what you need for a weekend get away.
Now, if you want some rest or sleep this is not the place to choose.
Let me explain... when we arrived on Wednesday night I noticed that there were ear plugs provided and I wondered if it was from the hustle and bustle. On the first night we constantly got woken up by the fridge motor going crazy every 15 minutes or so and at 7:50 the church bells going for 10 minutes, after which you are so awake and wound up you cant fall asleep,
Same happened on thursday night, with a few more loud noises from outside, people walking by etc. No ear plugs kept the noise away. As well as the individual apartments are part of a bigger appartment, and the sound proofing is weak, as you hear people checking in, checking out, just standing and chatting and evem having sex. This is not clear in the pictures and very misleading.
Now all this is kind of bearable, but here came the Friday and Saturday night, and the nightclub which is in the building, the walls vibrate from the noise until half 2/3am, there is no sleep AT ALL, after which when it closes people stand outside smoking and chatting and we got hardly any sleep AT ALL, and I mean AT ALL, I was throwing up the next day from being so tired, and on Sunday we got 0 hours sleep as we had to leave for the airport 2 hours after the club closed. ANd when we left there were still people outside.
I wish there were more honest reviews as we wanted a quieter break and sleeping in, eating in etc and we can't help but feel exhausted after this break and a bit angry. It needs better explaining and better sound proofing. It felt like torture in a way.