Yves’ place was wonderful and is located just across from Luxembourg Gardens. If you have small children this is a wonderful place to spend some time walking around there is a great playground, very old and charming carousel and you can also rent small boats for the kids to push around on the water fountain/pond within the gardens. The apartment is pleasantly furnished with beautiful windows looking out over the streets, I could people watch for hours. The evenings were cool and with fans we were very comfortable. It did get a little warm in the afternoon but we were usually gone majority of the time so we were find. The stairs didn't bother us, getting luggage up was of course a bit heavy but it really wasn't that bad. The platform bed wasn't my favorite to sleep on but others my be fine with it. We had everything we needed in the apartment and Yves was a very responsive host who was very helpful with any of my questions I had for him.