Marion's apartment was clean and in a safe area. It's also next to the famous jazz club New Morning, which for lovers of jazz is a real treat! It is well located near to great shopping areas, art & history venues as well as the tourist spots.

As we were traveling outside of Paris we had a car, but finding parking spaces was very difficult. One night we had to spend 56€ parking in a local underground car park as there were no street spaces to be found. We were not allowed to park in the apartments courtyard below.

The three flights of stairs up to the apartment was a struggle - but then I'm not the fittest. The kitchen was well equipped but it would have been good to have had a conventional oven (there is only a two-ring ceramic hob & microwave). The bathroom was very small but did the job! I did find the apartment cold - the heating is controlled from Marion's apartment next door - so if you're cold you need to go and ask for the heating to be put on. The only radiator in the front room needed to be bled, so it only heated a few inches from the top down. I ended up having to put the ceramic hob on for some heat.

I was traveling with my 19yr son & 21yr old daughter. As there are only two beds my kids shared a double together, but wanted their own quilts, understandably. Marion reluctantly did get hold of an extra quilt for us but rented it to us for 12€, which considering we had just paid her over 550€ for the five nights I thought that was a little excessive.

Our checkout time was Sunday morning at 10am, but we intended to leave much earlier as we were making a road trip to central France. Marion insisted on doing an "inspection" the night before, which was completely inconvenient. Despite her inspecting the apartment after we left the following day we did not hear from her. I thought it would be appropriate for her to have let me know everything was okay.

All-in-all we enjoyed our stay and had the luxury of a self-catering facility and accommodation that was much larger than a hotel's triple room.