Unfortunately without good nights sleep, everything else doesn’t count. The hotel itself is almost perfect. Rooms are large, staff very politely and helpful, and location is great if not for being next to (i suspect) a garbage processing station. Every night during my stays (two nights first time, and 7 nights second time), starting from around midnight up to 6am in the morning, extremely loud and annoying noise came from behind the building. It seems likely that there is a garbage processing station in the alley behind the building. Garbage trucks come and go and a constant crushing noise suggests that this is the place where garbage collected elsewhere is being further pressed and processed here. It only happens during the second half of the night, perfect to wake you up from the depth of your sleep and, well, keep you awake till morning.
Frankly this is something AKA cannot control but unfortunately is affected very negatively. For hotel guest, nothing is more important than good rest. Yes the apartments are very large, furniture especially beds are great, kitchen is very useful. But, the noise issue will deter me from staying here again in future or recommending to others. What a pity!
I did some onsite research and found some very big recycling machines and a garbage station right behind the AKA hotel. The dark prints of truck tires show that garbage trucks frequently come here.
Update: talked to the front desk and the lady apparently knew what was going on and offered to change room for me. It was too much trouble to do in the middle of stay so I declined. When checked out another gentleman asked about my experience and I talked about the late night/early morning noise issue. He was shocked and said “they should not do this in the evening and you should have called us, then we would tell them to stop”. it is kind of passive aggressive frankly.
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