First, the apartment was in a good location and allowed us to many good things in Paris. I believe it is unusual to find a four bedroom, four bath apartment for rent in Paris, so that was good. Also Rosa did some things before our stay to help us, such as allowing early access to store bags for one of our group who was arriving early in the morning.
Our experience during the stay was much different. We were expecting air conditioning (see below), but the two units in the front bedrooms were not functional at least partly because the required remote controllers had been removed. We tried to contact Rosa several times during the first day to learn how to make the units work but received no response. Nothing. We contacted AirBnB to try to get her to respond, but (I believe) that she only responded to AirBnB that the property description said no AC. She never responded to us. I will assume that statement was correct. Note that it was 40C (103F) in Paris while we were there. Three of the four bedrooms had ceiling fans, which made it more comfortable in those rooms. One of the front bedrooms (with non-working AC) did not. That was against the street, which was loud until late at night (OK, it’s Paris). The lack of a ceiling fan and AC created a difficult choice of leaving windows open for ventilation and living with the noise, or putting up with the lack of ventilation on a very hot night.
We had believed that the apartment had air conditioning because:
June 2021: Jeremy noted working air conditioning (around the time we booked this apartment)
January 2021: Mia said the AC worked well in the two bedrooms
August 2019: Thu Hang said the advertised AC was only present in two bedrooms
And working or not, the AC units were clearly visible in the photos of the apartment up to and including the time that we were in the apartment.
If we are going to get specific about the property description:
It said there was a freezer. The door was broken and sitting next to the unit. This was also noted in a review in by Lorain in April 2022, so it’s been that way a while.
Regarding cleanliness, it could have been cleaner. Thick dust under multiple beds and a large artificial fingernail in the middle of the kitchen says the floor wasn’t swept before we arrived.