The apartment is very cute and Kay was very helpful in both booking it last minute for me and arranging everything even though she was going to be out of town.

The view from the balcony was nice, as was the just having a balcony in general! The kitchen with a washer and a place to hang clothes was extremely convenient and opening the balcony doors made drying clothes easy. The wood floors were great and it was generally pretty clean. The bed and overall apartment were both comfortable and nice.

Kay provided a nice little booklet that explained some things about the apartment and included information about the neighborhood and some basic how-to's for the space. It was extremely useful. She even provided a map and guide book and the map was very helpful in a city that is more of a spiral than the grid that I am used to.

The location was great in that it was relatively close to the Sacré Cœur (which has a fantastic view both during the day and at night) and some interesting areas that surround it. But, as a female traveling alone, I would not recommend it to other females also traveling alone necessarily. I have a friend who lives in Paris who walked me home two of the three nights I was there but on the one night I walked home alone I was harassed and it was generally unpleasant. Personally, I live in a city known for violence, in a country where the right to bear arms is fundamental and I travel alone quite a bit so I am used to walking through bad areas, unarmed and unaccompanied, and the area directly surrounding the place (within a block or two) is one within which I would have felt safer if I had been carrying mace or some such. I guess I just wish I had been warned so that I could prepare. But I do truly believe that most (if not all) people would be entirely fine there! People foreign to the area/city and traveling alone might feel safer walking through it after dark if they have some sort of self-defense mechanism.

Finally, there was a cat that came into the apartment almost any time the balcony doors were open. The cat was nice the first day but the first morning it woke me up, sitting on me and scratching at the bed. The second night it woke me up because it was scratching the only semi-valuable thing I brought, my phone (I was annoyed, to say the least). The cat later started to claw at the furniture and was shedding everywhere so I did my best to keep it out or keep a close eye on it. Obviously, this is not Kay's fault, but be warned that if you sleep with the window open you may wake up with a pussy in your face.

But aside from the late-night issues and the furry wake-up calls the place was great! The view was good, Kay was easy to get a hold of and very accommodating, and my experience was generally fantastic.