8. the actual noise seems to come through the air conditioning unit built into the window frame, but the windows are old and are hard to close properly, apart from this I couldnt fault anything else, as for the infamous lifts that seem to crop up on other reviews, they only failed to work once for me and once for my son, he got stuck in it for a few minuites, but if you are able bodied its not a problem to use the stairs, the cleaners work tirelessly especially Andrew who I found on a few occasions on his hands and knees cleaning the most minute crevaces in the lift door way, nothing seemed to escape him, room cleaning is very good.