Unfortunately this is going to be my first bad review on Airbnb. Me and my family (3 couples) went to Paris on holidays to celebrate my birthday and it was the worst experience with an Airbnb I had so far. When we got there the whole living room was flooded with water. The shower drain stop working the water ended up in the whole apartment. There are 3 bathroom in the apartment. 1 in-suite (which there is no door, so keep that in mind), one with the toilet plus a sink, and the 3rd one with a shower and a sink. All the sinks (included the kitchen, but not the in-suite one) were all connected, so if you used any of them, the shower flooded. So for the first 24h in the apartment, we couldn't use 1 one the shower, 2 sinks and the kitchen. We all had to share the in-suite, which like I said, it's open, so the couple in that room, couldn't even be inside the room while the others were showering. Also people would wake up in the middle of the night to use the toilet, and had to go inside the room so they could wash their hands. So you can imagine the stress it was.
When we arrived at the apartment, there were towels around the flooding bathroom, so the people that cleaned it, already knew about the problem. Vanessa said she didn't know (which we will never be able to know), but someone did, otherwise there wouldn't be towels on the floor. Dispute all that, we were 6 and they only gave us 5 towels, so one of the couples had to share. She bedsheets weren't very clean and the cushions were very mouldy. One of the chairs in the kitchen was broken, so every time you sat on it, half of the chair would come off. One of us ended up falling because of that. Vanessa did take a few hours to get back to us, but Airbnb support was really great!
The photos look amazing, but when you start looking at details, (don't get me wrong, I don't care about it, especially because the price is not the worse, but when you put it all together, it's very disappointing) like holes in the walls, lots of spiderwebs, no kitchen towel (we had to leave the dishes wet when we left the apartment because we couldn't dry it), it all start to add up and it becomes an unpleasant trip.
I could come her and be all dramatic with caps lock comments, but I do believe that this place can be something good. The location is really good, that's something no one can really talk about, but I believe that the place needs improvements. Until those improvements are made, I wouldn't recommend this place, but I'm here sincerely asking Vanessa to make those improvements because I know this can be a really good place if she wants to. It needs some effort from her side and a good investment so this can be an amazing place.