Cute apartment but leaves a whole lot to be desired, starting from the service side of the host (Melissa). We stayed there for over a week. To our surprise, the apartment was on the 4th floor with a ton of steps and the building is in very bad shape, certainly not better than a hotel as the listing implies. There was a lot of noise nearly every night. In fact, the apartment is above several bars and pubs that open late. This place is certainly not suitable for families, older people, working professionals, etc. If you are young, have lots of energy and like to party, this is the place for you! Julian - the original host was mostly imaginary, as we never heard from him, ever. Melissa the pseudo "co-host" was a most unpleasant person to deal with. The only person we actually met and dealt with face-to-face was Yelena (the cleaner), who was generally pleasant to deal. However, she was strictly following Melissa's orders through the phone, and so didn't have much say on anything really. It was obvious that Yelena, the cleaning person was running around on behalf of the actual host doing her job. After attempting to communicate with Melissa about arrival times, we agreed on a ball park time of arrival. Once we landed, it turned out Melissa wasn't going to be there to meet us as planned, and she ended up having the cleaner wait up for us. Granted, we were roughly an hour late, our flight was slightly delayed and then it was impossible to get a taxi at Part Dieu station. We did communicate with Melissa along the way, as we had to take the metro after trying to get a taxi for 20 minutes. Upon arrival, Yelena was waiting for us. After lugging our luggage up 4 flights of stairs, Yelena did a quick walkthrough. Everything was great with Yelena, until she pulled out the inventory list of all inventories. It had to be signed! :O It inventoried everything, including forks, knives, old dusty books, and 99 cent cups from Ikea! I couldn't believe it, and we had to go through the whole thing, item by item. Kind of a nightmare after a long flight, 4 flights of stairs and needing to use the toilet. Despite this, after checking in, the "host" had also numerous demands from us, (which I was flabbergasted by) including a request – not even 24 hours after our arrival – asking us to accommodate our schedule to suit her pre-planned repairs to the (new) oven! Subsequently 2 days later she requested that we fetch information on her behalf relating to an enquiry about the bedding and pillows in the apartment for some other upcoming guests who where allergic to feathers! You really need to have a hard neck to request this of your guests who are there to enjoy their stay, not fulfil arbitrary demands from the host. After kindly doing this errand for the host,...