This apartment is well located and the host is good with communication. The apartment is not, however, well described nor represented in the photos. In reality, and you will see this in the reviews, it is oppresively small - the bed fills the room when open. It is dark and dirty. The photo does not represent it. The bathroom is teeny and damp and smells with not enough hot water for one good shower. The room smells like smoke. The fridge froze all of our food. There is no dryer as advertised. The building is super old (okay it IS Paris) and the walls are thin and the halls are very noisy -- you can literally hear people going to the bathroom through the walls. I didn't sleep well because of all the different noises (pipes pounding adn flushing, fridge humming, people in the streets and halls...). The sheets are old and grimy and pillows are not real pillows but couch accessories you put slips on and the mattress is lumpy and really a couch.
Further, we paid $161/night for two people.. i checked into local hotels on the near by streets and none were more than $126/night and some less with bright clean fresh air and light, and no smells. If i am paying $60 for a cleaning fee, i would like to come into a clean place (and i am not really that picky)...
Sadly, (and in 6 years this is my first negative review) i do not and would not recommend this apartment.