The house is situated in a beautiful courtyard. To get to your bedroom, you enter the front door of the house and walk up the stairs which are between the living room and kitchen - for some reason we thought there would be a private entrance to the room but that was our misunderstanding. The room is a nice size and the bed is very cosy and comfortable and it’s plenty big. There are lovely linens and a nice en suite bathroom too. The balcony overlooks the back of other flats. There is a nespresso-type coffee machine in the room and lots of coffee pods which was a nice touch. She even had decaf which was nice. The room is very clean too. There is a metro stop very close by which was great and there’s a pharmacy, a really lovely boulangerie, cafe, corner shop, and small grocery store right near by too.
We accidentally spilled coffee on the duvet and paid to get it cleaned properly. I am trusting that this was acceptable in the end.
We were able to text back and forth to let her know of our arrival and let her know of each stage of our journey from the airport to her home - we had arranged our arrival for 11-11:30pm in advance and she had said that was fine, but we still felt that we were somehow imposing once we actually arrived. Perhaps it is a language or cultural difference but we continued to feel like an imposition - it was nothing overt exactly but was enough for us to feel like we should say something here.