The apartment is located at the top floor with no elevators, so the checkin person had to helped me carry my luggage up. The interior itself is cozy and clean, located at a great area with lots of wondering food and boutique shops.
However, I’ve had one of the worst experiences as a frequent Airbnb user during my stay there. The communication from the start wasn’t very transparent from the checkin process. Waiting in the airport for 1hr for someone to respond with clear meet time, soap dispensers that had no soap, and the washer machine that also had no soap to go with it were all minor things.
Come to find out after I got there that the whole building was under some sort of repair construction. Every morning starting from 8am the whole building would start pounding and shaking and buzzing with extremely loud mechanical tool noises. I could not believe that the host would let any guest fly all the way here and have such a disturbing experience in Paris without even saying a word. Not before or even during. Since it was an attic apartment, one day the construction workers banged too hard that I witnessed them crack open the ceiling of the apartment. The whole experience made me feel like I was living in a none stop earthquake the whole entire time and couldn’t get proper rest. And couldn’t get the privacy that I needed because the construction workers would just be outside of every window. The whole beginning of the Paris stay was kind of traumatizing to say the least.
I understand that buildings are old here and there will be a time where they needed to get repaired. But for the host to still list this place and not tell it ahead of time just for the guest to run into this is super irresponsible and irritating. Then the host wanted to charge me for the missing keys after I told them specifically that I put the keys back into the lockbox and shuffled the locks before I left. Trust me, i will never want to take those keys and come back again. I would not book again based on the kind of hosting experience is behind this place.