My friend and I looked forward to Julia’s Ancien Atelier de L’Artiste following an overnight flight from the US and for the next seven nights in Paris. Located off the busy streets of Montparnasse, the apartment was quiet and private, just steps from its small shared courtyard. While the apartment offered a full kitchen including washer and dryer, a semi-private bedroom / bathroom downstairs, an open bedroom/ living room and bathroom upstairs, it was lacking in certain basic features of an Airbnb stay. There were no paper products (toilet paper and paper towels), only dirty sponges, and just one bar of soap. We had to buy these products ourselves. There was no heat in the upstairs except what may have come from copper pipes running through from a neighboring apartment. The apartment appeared to not have been cleaned in some time and a bare lightbulb hung from a cut-out opening in the kitchen ceiling. With a thorough cleaning, some basic maintenance, and the addition of an upstairs heater, the apartment could provide a pleasant stay for visitors to Paris.