The apartment we had rented was a disaster! The idea was great: an apartment just outside the city walls so we could easily walk in to the hustle and bustle but have a peaceful place to stay. Peaceful my arse. We did not realise till we got there how close it was to the busy main road round the ramparts. It was so noisy we had to keep all the windows closed (and then needed noisy fans to keep cool) and we could not enjoy the outside space. There was a pond in the garden resulting in a veritable plague of biting insects which added to our misery.
We stuck with it for a few days as we’d paid for the whole stay up front, but in the end we decided we had to abandon ship if we were to salvage the holiday. We found another apartment one road back from the main ring road and it was like night and day. Disaster averted.