YOU HUM IT, ILL MOVE TO A DIFFERENT HOTEL So I am now in the swanky North Tower of The Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel where, for a bit more dosh, I have been given a rather more luxurious room. However, if you are planning on staying here on a trip to Vancouver my advice is: dont bother. The whole edifice suffers from noise pollution. No, Misha my earstwhile receptionist friend, I do not mean I have a room near the hotels elevators. I can live with thin walls and even street noise (right now, even tho I am on the 21st floor and almost at cloud level, I can still hear a drill from roadworks below). Thats not the issue. The problem is an incessant humming produced by a combination of sources: my room fridge-like cooler, the air coditioning even when turned off and a huge ice-making machine down the corridor (the corridor is circular and so, although the massive, thrumming freezer is a long way off, the tower acts like the whispering galerly in St Pauls Cathederal). The front deslk has been as helpful as they can: I was allowed to try out two rooms , one in the dowdier South Tower, and an electrician was sent to turn off the ice machine. I walked out the cooler in my room and unplugged it. But the air conditioning still humms even when turned off and there is a low level humm all the time, throughout the hotel. I was offered ear-plugs but I have my own (interesting that they have a supply) and just wont come here again even if I ever could afford it in the future. Shame.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:08:44 +0000
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