My husband and I have rented many apartments and this was definitely a favorite. The 9th floor (with elevator) apartment is filled with natural light thanks to a wall of floor to ceiling windows the length of the apartment, as well as a terrace with a 180 degree panoramic view over the rooftops of Paris. We had breakfast every day out there, sunned, watched a dramatic thunderstorm and saw a double rainbow! The apartment is very clean and comfortable - good bed, great shower, equipped kitchen, dishwasher and laundry machine. The lighting in the apartment was excellent with good reading lights and lovely little Christmas lights framing the window in the living room. We liked the location which was in easy walking distance to the center of the Marais and Bastille (less than ten minutes), close to the Bastille market, Rue de Bretagne, etc. There's a metro station two minutes from the apartment (though we walked or rode Velib bikes nearly everywhere). Everything was easily in reach but it felt like a real neighborhood rather than "tourist" Paris. We cannot wait to return.