Alison's place is in a great location to view the sites - about a 10 minute walk to get to the main areas you'll want to be visiting. However, being in a popular area, it does get noisy at night - we heard people out on the streets being quite loud and partying (on a week night) until early hours of the morning. Also, we checked in early, which was great because we were able to store our bags, but once we got to the house we did not know how to get in - there were no instructions on buzzing into the building or how to get in the main door. Luckily the housecleaning lady was leaving and we were eventually able to get in, but then had to figure out which apartment to go to. We ended up just buzzing each room on the floor given until someone answered - more detailed instructions should be provided. Also, I got several really terrible spider bites while sleeping - one on my arm and three on my face! It's been almost a week and they are still as swollen and irritated as they were when I initially got them. Really not a comforting experience when traveling.