This was a perfect place to land and get our bearings in Paris at the beginning of our trip. Nice people, fantastic place, perfect location. It took awhile to see and appreciate all the fine touches, like the various fixtures and how it provides near-perfect solitude and silence just feet off a main thoroughfare near one of Europe’s busiest train stations. The bed...so comfortable; the shower...great pressure and plenty of hot water. For those pressed for time, the washer also dries. One of my travel peeves are coffee capsules – not a problem here. (Think espresso anytime.) We almost didn’t reserve here because of the “can’t stand the noise” reviews but we couldn’t be happier about ignoring them. On garbage pickup days, you can hear people drop off their refuse, but it was for a very brief few hours and the rest of the week was very quiet. We also loved how you could reach everywhere in the city quickly from here and the 10th is mostly a bustling neighborhood where people live instead of the quarters full only of visitors. Would stay here again in a New York minute and it will be the first place we check coming back to Paris, every single time.