The apartment building was very easy to find and was in walking distance from gare de Nord where we left our rental car. When we had reached the front door of the building we where instructed to call to a tel.number where a lady/contact person would reply and come to open the door and show us in. However, this lovely lady didn't speak any other language than French and she was very puzzled about our call. Luckily my wife speaks a couple of words of French and we managed to get her to undersytand what this was about. After this minor challance at first the rest of the entry and getting into the appartment was easy.
The aparment itself is just great! There are three quite scacious bedrooms. A nice & functional kitchen and a very lovely living room that has a big dining table - easily for eight people. The small but cute balcony is also nice. The aparment is also very clean. Bed sheets and towels provided were very clean & fresh. We experienced some challange with the jaguzzi, but that sorted out fine.
The metro station is right next door, about 20-30 meters away. However, it didn't bother us in any way. You could hear the trains comming, but it didn't bother us at all. We slept well. However, the metro station in question did have some very suspicious looking dudes hanging aroud and we did see them fighting on a couple of occasion, either with each other or with the police. However, we didn't have any trouble or problems while using the station.
I've used the AirBnB a couple of times earlier but this was the first time we actually stayed in someones own home. We liked and appreciated that experience very much! You really got into a foreing culture more deeply than by staying in some dull hotel room. Somethig that was a valuable experience and a lessen also for our children. Christoph has a beatiful home.
We would definately stay again in Christophs apartment and would recommend it to everyone who appreciates good locatian, spacius apartment and good directions (metro & train station). A really good value for money.