The Magical Manly Earthquake Experience.
We woke each morning in our comfortable bed singing lines from classic tunes like "Shake, rattle and roll" or "I feel the earth move under my feet".
If you like an early start, vibrating beds, mirrors, windows, loud noise and a front row seat to view earthmoving and construction machines in action then this is the place for you!
Each morning the show begins at 7AM right outside your kitchen and bathroom windows and continues until 4PM. You will see the amazing performance up close. A large sandpit next door with a huge grey silo in the middle vibrating and spewing out cement dust like a beautiful smoke machine. Enjoy watching the excavators, cement trucks and hard hat wearing performers as they do their thing. As you are so close to the action, the sound quality is excellent - it is very loud. You'll need to book soon as work has already started and this experience may only last until 2020.
The manager/owner of the apartment did not warn us about this exciting daily event happening next door. As you can imagine it was a wonderful surprise for our tired family and really lifted our spirits after a long flight, taxi and ferry ride!
On a serious note, you will want to get out of the apartment early each day and start exploring the beautiful area of Manly and other parts of Sydney. It was a real bonus to return each evening to find our apartment building was still standing, had stopped vibrating and the noise had ended.
If you are still reading and are seriously considering staying at this place then there's something wrong with you but please, read on. The sheets and towels seem clean but the cleaners would benefit from attending vacuum, sweeping and dusting courses. The key pickup location is not secure. The apartment was older but spacious with high ceilings and a few cracks in the walls (not sure if this was caused by the current earth works/construction work).
Good times and memories that will last forever!