2. Also you get outside noise a lot; amazingly loud commuter trains on the city-facing side (from about 5am until after midnight - it's unbelievable), people's voices in the swimming pool area echo (it's between the two main buildings and a bunch of rooms face that area), and even the rooms that face the waterfront expose you to the bells from the USS Midway, people and traffic on the sidewalks along the front of the hotel, and, worst of all, the blowing of cruise ship horns.