Our party of three had a terrific stay here for 8 nights in early October.
The best thing about the apartment is its location. It’s on a very quiet side street, but only half a block from a bustling and mostly pedestrian commercial street at the edge of the popular Le Marais district. The entire area was hopping with positive energy at night, and felt very safe. But no noise came into the apartment.
Within a very short walk you’ll find everything you’d want: multiple cafes on every block, bars and restaurants of all sorts, supermarkets, pharmacies, boutiques, you name it. It’s also very easy to access the metro system with several train stations close by, including the huge Les Halles station. Buy your Navigo card and you’re all set to reach all of Paris and day trips put of town as well.
The apartment itself is up two flights of stairs in an older building with about 75 units and a charming design. A large door at the sidewalk requires a code for entry, and once inside there is a cobblestone-floored open air courtyard with plants; it felt very European.
One tip for travelers like us who came directly from the USA on an overnight flight is to pay for the day before arrival. Check-in is not until 2PM and we arrived on a flight that landed close to 8AM, so by 10AM we were at the apartment and exhausted, ready for a nap. By paying for the day before we essentially asked for a very late check-in, and had we not done this we’d have been killing 4 hours in a zombie-like state. (The jet lag when traveling west to east across multiple time zone is a very real thing.)
The apartment itself is fully outfitted but nothing to get excited about — it is in need of repainting and minor repairs.There is a washing machine but no dryer, so that was not very useful. To their credit, we experienced a problem with a leak from the apartment above and they had it fixed the same day; the management is quite responsive. (This AIRBNB is controlled by a business with a number of AIRBNB properties.)
Highly recommend.