Pro: cute loft in great neighborhood. Excellent location very near Centre Pompidou.
Cons: small downsides were broken tv, no soap, shower drain barely working.
Would have loved this to be a better experience. Although my flight got in at 7, couldn't check in until 2pm so we killed time at a coffee shop. By 2:30, no one had shown up, messenging Thomas indicated the cleaning person almost there. We got in through a backup key at 3, the apartment was filthy with food and used bandages all over the floor. But at least we could set all out bags down.
At 4pm the cleaning person came, they were done by 7pm. They blamed the Metro strike. Okay, we are dumb tourists, so tell us that the Metro is on strike, but we were able to get around all day on both the Metro and the RER with little problem. It was a slowdown, not a halt, and this was the 30th day of the strike so it's not like it was a surprise. So it's a bit insulting to have a five hour delay blamed on the slowdown.
Thomas was apologetic and nice about it and brought a $5 euro bottle of wine along as a gift but really, this was not in line with making us wait 5 hours for a clean place.