What an amazing location. You are steps from the river (we took our food and wine down to the river one evening and had a picnic). The best quality restaurant district is one block away (but the pizza place downstairs was so good we ate their twice). While you are in a district of buildings from the 17th century, the even older town is just a pedestrian bridge away.
The place itself was really cool, and huge. The place is on the 2nd floor, but there is an elevator, if you need it. The kitchen is big and fully stocked (there is even a clothes dryer!). The bedroom has two floor to ceiling windows to the balcony (not a lot of buildings have balconies). There is a huge living room to relax in during the afternoon. There is even a second bedroom (that we treated as a second living room). The building itself is so historic, not only does it show up in 17th century maps, but when we went on a walk with a historian, he was excited to see the original traboule with concierge building that are still part of the building (another Lyon rarity). There is even an archeological dig right outside our door (soon to be a beautiful square one the scholars are finished with it).
This is a really rare find and all others places in Lyon will have a hard time comparing with this one.