Joel keeps his beautiful apartment in perfect shape – and utterly spotlessly clean. The bed is comfortable and the bedroom opens onto a lovely balcony. The location is wonderful, too: a 10-minute walk from the hidden-gem Belleville neighborhood. Explore the galleries (especially Le Plateau), restaurants and shops (along Rue Belleville and Rue De La Villette) there.
Visitors should be aware that, in addition to expecting you to keep the place nice and clean, Joel prefers to keep things on a pretty strict schedule: Check-in isn't until 6pm, and check-out is at 8 am. Also, he enforces an 11 pm nightly curfew on guests, and he did not give me a key, so I needed to rely upon him to get into the apartment. I only stayed one night, and I departed on a Sunday morning, so he let me push that check-out time back a little bit. But still — the curfew and the super-early check-out time were both unheard-of, in my experience.