Ann's home is as fancy as she is lovely. I felt like I was in 5 star accommodation.
I had the best nights' sleep in Sydney at Ann's home.
There is a busy road kinda near-ish-ish. But Ann has installed some fancy system where you can close two sets of windows to the noise (doubled glazed or something equally superb?)...this cuts the traffic noise down to a very very low, white-noise level hum. I am an incredibly light sleeper yet the traffic hum did not disturb me one iota.
I stayed in other places in Sydney (an airbnb and hotel) that were quieter but I was tossing and turning all night and spent the next day with neck, shoulder and lower back pain as the mattresses were so uncomfortable. I would definitely choose Ann's place, (with the white-noise level traffic hum) and an incredibly comfortable mattress, over the quieter places, with painful old mattresses, that I endured elsewhere. The mattress (and bathroom, yaaaay) at Ann's place at absolutely top-level, world-class, sublime, amazing, divine (insert 10000 other awesome words here at your own leisure please). I woke up refreshed at Ann's place, which I didn't experience elsewhere in Sydney.
Ann was so friendly and accommodating to me - just one example is the bandaids she gave me for my blistered feet after trekking around Sydney. Ann's advice saved me time and money. I would have made an unnecessary trip to the lockers in central Sydney but thanks to Ann, I found out that the information desk at Taronga Zoo could store my luggage.
Ann is super friendly, kind and down to Earth. Her home, however, is absolute Heaven (and looks like it is out of a magazine). My only gripe is airbnb haven't allowed Ann a 6 star rating just to herself as that is what she truly deserves. Airbnb, you have failed me LOL LOL LOL