This is a small, modern apartment that was very clean and had convenient amenities nearby, however there were several issues that happened during our stay. First we chose this apartment based on the location that was posted on the Airbnb website, and when the booking was confirmed, the address was provided, however the map brings you to a different address, and not knowing much about the areas of Paris, we did not notice that the address and the map did not correspond. We chose this particular apartment to rent based on proximity to where our son has been staying for the summer, and we’re disappointed when we went to the wrong place, had to call the owner and realized it was a 10 minute further walk from where we wanted to be.
We finally found the correct location and the apartment was very warm inside so we went to plug in the air conditioner which requires a hose to go to the outside and the sliding glass door handle came right off the door! Apparently the previous renters had broken it and when we messaged the owner, he asked us if we “had any idea what happened ?” He offered to come the next day to fix it but preferred not to have to wait around for him or to have him in the apartment without us there. So the back door was never able to be locked, unfortunately. The apartment is what seems like a secure area, however. Another thing was that the outlet in the bathroom didn’t work, so we had to blow dry our hair in the living room which was not convenient. The two plugs under the TV we’re not working and the last day before we left, we turned on the TV and realized the screen had several huge cracks running through it and had been seriously damaged by someone. We don’t watch a lot of TV, however the owner really should have let us know this beforehand as the apartment t was advertised as having a TV, and would have saved us the time that we now had to take pictures of it and send to him so he would know and we certainly didn’t want him to think we had broken it! We saw him later that morning and he let us know this had happened from some previous renters, so he knew but didn’t bother to tell us.
We also had only two bath towel for three people and when I asked on day 3 of our stay if we could get clean towels, we were told we could get them the next day and we ended up asking the cleaning person ourselves the next morning so we could have them for our morning showers. We also were provided with 1 1/2 small rolls of toilet paper and 1/4 roll of paper towels, so had to buy more ourselves for our 4-night stay.
Try not to get home too late in the evening if you prefer not to walk down a very dark, poorly-lit street to the apartment.
We did enjoy buying pastries from the patisserie around the corner and having them at the kitchen table with tasty espresso from the appartment’s Nespresso machine, coffee provided.