Generally, this place has a great location - it was very near the Arc de Triomphe and the neighbourhood was a quiet one. The apartment itself was very beautiful, love the little interior design touches all over the place. That was better than what I had expected. The bedroom itself has another door so you can close it if you’re extra-sensitive to noises (or cold). You can truly experience what’s it like to live in an old mansion; I love old elevators and the fact that this mansion has it was enough to make me squeal! Overall I love this place except for a few things that marred my experience. Hopefully the host, or agency, will be able to rectify it in the future.
First of all, the person from the agency who was supposed to pass us the keys was late by 2 hours. We were supposed to meet earlier but as we had postponed the meeting time and informed them beforehand, I can understand if the agency was late by an hour, but no. So when I called the agency to ask, each call was fielded by different people who told me different excuses - from on his way to we’re sorry we can’t reach him. It was a frustrating experience, not to mentioned we were standing outside in the cold. If they had let us know, we could have at least gone to a nearest cafe and wait comfortably. In the end, we couldn’t rejoin our tour and we had wasted our money. In fact, we were so tired at the end of it that when we went into our apartment, we just slept. And it was only 8 something in the night.
Second of all, I think the cleaning staff probably overlooked it accidentally but I had a rude shock when I was taking a shower. I turned to face the wall and what greeted me was a few clumps of hair on it.
Lastly, just a suggestion, but I think you can install a rack for a hand towel in the toilet? There was nothing for us to dry our hands on except for our shirts... I ended up taking the tablecloth in the kitchen and sticking it in the cabinet above the sink so that one end is hanging out of it for us to dry our hands.