The appartment is very, very, very small. So tiny, that one has to put ones luggage and groceries in the small livingroom on the floor, as there is no space anywhere else or in closets. The design is shabby. The shower is dirty with fungus. The towels are very worn and the fabric is unpleasantly hard. The bedroom window gives out directly on the street, so one will have to keep it closed in the night, also in warm weather, because people talking in the street will wake you up.
Moreover, in the appartment right above Melodie’s, construction workers are rebuilding the entire appartment, with all the noice, loud voices and dust that go with construction work. The construction workers tell us that Meldodie is aware of this, they had a conversation about it with her, but she says her Airbnb guests will not be bothered by the noise and the dust, as they will be out, in the street, anyway (?!?!).
So we left her appartment and arranged another one in Paris through Airbnb. Melodie then offered us to pay us back our rental money, but only under the condition we wouldn’t tell Airbnb what is going on, and only if we wouldn’t leave a review on this platform. This behaviour is called blackmail. Melodie would pay our money back directly, out of her own pocket, secretly. The rules of Airbnb specifically forbit financial transactions without the platform knowing it; and with good reason: because if anything goes wrong with this transaction, the guests have no legal rights to fall back onto. So we handled the refund through the Airbnb platform.
Melodie has sent us several hostile and insulting messages. She never apologised to us for the horrible experience we had in her appartment, nor for not telling us construction work was going on right above. Melodie never said sorry to us, she doesn’t seem to be aware of the trouble and the bad time she puts her guests through, the guests’s time she is waisting. It looks like she is only interested in her own reputation as a host. We recommend to not book her place, Airbnb-Paris has far better appartments to offer for less money.