Marc's apartment had so much charm! And yes, that climb up those 5 plus fights of stairs were definately challenging. But if you are like us, you leave in the morning and come back at the end of the day so it's only once a day you deal with the climb. Besides we got just as much, if not more, stair exercise in the subways. Pretty much a Paris thing. The neighborhood is great and we arrived at night feeling safe. We had to leave Paris in a hurry due to coronovirus restrictions imposed on travel from Europe, and Marc was the perfect host--even communicating to make sure we got home safe. That to me was priceless.