4. For sure, the claim we read somewhere about it being 'just five minutes walk from the streetcar' is possibly optimistic (by the time we'd walked there, we could have been a good halfway into town), the parklike setting is pleasant and full of activity but not noisy (that could be different had we been there during the Blues festival which was being set up as we left)We've talked about our view of the RiverPlace before writing this review and both feel it promised slightly more than it delivered - but we can't pin down why this is.