This apartment is in a fantastic location, within easy walk of the Metro and RER-C. The local neighborhood has lots of restaurants and shops, so you can feel like you are in the community. Surrounded by gorgeous Haussmann Architecture buildings, this one is in an older buidling on a cobblestoned and gated courtyard. Really beautiful and felt safe on the first floor. The apartment has been updated to be completely modern, and was an efficiency that was highly functional. We were able to cook in, and easily pop in and out of the apartment over the course of the day. A real charmer. It seems dark at first, but open up the shutters (very Parisian to lean out the window opening shutters!) and it is plently light, and not loud from the street at all. Getting set up when we arrived was easy, and just left the key on the way out. Our flight arrived too early to check in, and were directed by the host to a safe and reliable system for luggage storage just a few blocks away, so we could start being tourists right away!