Everything was fine till the end of our holiday, when it was completely ruined by the host. We were out the whole day, sight seeing Paris, when we returned late at night, we found the curtain pole had fallen off the wall. We messaged our host and let her know and asked her what we should do about it, as we were certain that she was aware that the curtain pole was faulty, for the end ball of the curtain pole was on the floor when we had checked into the apartment. She did not give us any instructions and demanded us to pay for it at check out. We let her know clearly that we weren’t in the apartment when her window curtain pole, which was already faulty, had fallen down. (What if it had fallen on my 3 year old son or me,
7 months pregnant). When it was time for check out she came with materials to repair and demanded us to pay her €30 for materials and labour charge. We told her if she wanted we could help her fix it for her, as our friend is a professional builder. She then retorted back in an angry tone that we should have done it at night and were we ready now to stay 12 hours to watch it dry. We didn’t think that was fair that she should talk to us that way. I explained to her that we hadn’t broken it and as it was her house she should propose what we should do. We could have simply put it up the night before, and never mentioned it to her and been silent about it, but we are not dishonest people. Also as the hole was quite big on the wall, it would fall back again and probably someone would get hurt. She insinuated that we were not telling her the truth, to which we retorted in kind and told her that she was lying. It was fine for her to insult us, but when we started feeling bad and replied back, she threw us out of the apartment and kept bad mouthing us, while we packed our stuff and left. We have never had such a bad experience on Air B&B and felt very humiliated. Not only did we leave with a bad taste in our mouth, our memory of Paris is ruined because of her.
We felt the apartment was far from the main attractions, and as we had a stroller it was difficult to always use the metro.
The children’s room, or the room through the master bedroom, is dark and freezing.
We chose this flat because of the eclectic decor but in reality it’s quite dark and small. Will not recommend booking for the price we paid €161 per night.