We were pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to access the metro and to walk to many of the sites we had planned to visit during our stay in Paris. This apartment was truly an ideal location.
There were many great features about this apartment, great host with communication, easy access, location to sites within the city, shopping, and the apartment was very clean.
In fact, the cleaning service must have just finished up prior to us arriving because when we opened the front door we were hit with a very strong bleach smell. The apt only has a couple of windows that go out to the shared building's courtyard so it took us two days to air out the place. We were also there during a damp season so the apt had an overall musty smell to it. I am sensitive to smells so because of that I feel I needed to mention it in the feedback.
I have also seen some reviews mentioning the courtyard. When I hear or see the word courtyard in an apartment description, I conjure up a place that you could possibly sit and enjoy a cup of joe in the morning. Not in this case. The courtyard is basically a square cement slab that is shared by the building tenants and is where they have their garbage & recycling containers along with storing their bicycles. This is all right outside the only two windows of the apartment. Since the apartment is on the ground level you have to look up 5 stories to see any sunlight. It is really more of a shared space that the apartment opens up too.
The apartment overall is spacious and the best room in the place is the updated bathroom.
Overall, Louise was easy to communicate with and provided us with what we needed to make our Paris stay delightful.