Had's place suited us very well and we'd gladly stay there again on a return trip to Paris. The most important positives for us were:
+ Extremely quiet, zero street noise or other noise;
+ Spacious with good natural illumination on 5th floor (with elevator), with large living room and two bedrooms (one bathroom, though, which was fine for us);
+ Neighbourhood is in the pleasant 18th arrondissiment, which was just right for us, being away from tourist crowds and feeling like we were in a real neighbourhood, but yet a 5-minute walk from Metro stations of 3 different lines plus 1 RER (regional train) station, from where you could be at any tourist site in Paris in 15-25 minutes. Lots of neighbourhood restaurants, places to buy food to carry out, cheese shops, patisseries, etc., all mostly frequented by locals. Plus walking distance (15-20 minutes) to the Eiffel tower.
+ The host Had was extremely accomodating with our late checkout request and even though another family was moving in the same day, he checked with them on their arrival time and delayed the cleaning schedule to be able to let us stay till the last possible minute--we really appreciated that and it helped us a lot given our late night flight departure!
+ Kitchen is well equipped for short- to medium-length stays (cooktop, large fridge, microwave with grill feature, there is no regular oven but there is an electric "pizza heater" like appliance good for heating pizza, croissants and the like). There is even a dishwasher (but we didn't use it).
+ Very good hot water and water pressure in the bathroom and kitchen (note that toilet is in a small separate area).
+ Good washing machine (and condensation-based electric dryer as well, though we preferred to use the provided drying rack), full-sized ironing board and steam iron.
+ Had communicated well, all in French, but Airbnb messaging translated it for us. Responses generally took several hours but that was fine since nothing we needed to communicate about was urgent (and if it had been, we had a phone number, though we never needed to use it).
There were no negatives for us, but factors that future guests may want to consider:
- There is no A/C (nor ceiling fans)--this was a non-issue in very cool weather of September, but we would have missed it in July, for example.
- The decor is a bit of a hotch-potch of various items that don't necessarily coordinate well or may look "dated," sets of tableware may be mixed and lack an item or two, some items are well worn, etc., but these are small things that most short-term guests don't really care about (we didn't), compared to the much larger number of positives and good price/benefit value. And, more importantly, everything was clean.
Our stay was for 12 days and after the first couple of days it already felt like our "home away from home"!