Ju & Ch are great hosts - very responsive and they shared great info to help prepare for the stay (especially during a Covid surge). I have nothing but good things to say about them).
The location is just what we were hoping for (close to Notre Dame). The apartment was clean, recently renovated and in great shape.
I will share that there are a couple of details which future guests need to keep in mind.
- this is a converted storefront and you are in a city. Across the street is a shop that sells wood products for craftsman. This generated a fair bit of noise during the work days from the workers and customers/craftsman on the street. This wasn’t present on the weekend.
- there is also a restaurant next door. They had a party on Christmas night and resulted in a lot of loud talking on the street late at night. There is also an external door in the ground floor rear bedroom. The restaurant workers were loudly disposing of trash in that external passageway late at night. While the hosts did nothing to cause this, when we shared this news, Ju did say they were going to close off/soundproof that door. That should help.
- finally, I wanted to share about the layout of the apartment. On the ground floor is a table for six, a living room (with sofa bed), two full baths a kitchen and a rear bedroom.
- above the rear bedroom, there is an enclosed loft bedroom with a sloping/somewhat low ceiling. It is accessed via a metal staircase and the access door is not full height
- at the front of the apartment, there is a steep metal stairs leading to a basement bedroom. The parents stayed in this bedroom as the stairs were quite steep and had a tight 90 deg turn at the start