This apartment is a great find! Wonderful location with shops, bakeries, dry cleaners, cafes all just around the corner. The Marais district offers a lot. 2 blocks away, there is a weekend market (think flea markets with good old Parisian finds). Lots of food choices along the Rue de Bretagne. While not directly on a Metro station, the apartment is situated just between a few lines, so you could choose which line had the shortest run with fewest connections and have less than a 10 minute walk to any of them. The apartment is actually on a one way street, so little traffic actually comes down. There was some construction going on next door, so it would be a little noisy in the morning- but that is a temporary issue and nothing the owner can address. The apartment is on the 5th/top floor, so getting your bags up the first night might be tricky if you are not up for hauling up the 85 steps. We didn’t have a problem with this, and didn’t mind it on the daily basis- just a way the French stay fit and can indulge in their delicacies. The flat is quite large, with 2 bedrooms that would be a tight fit if you wanted to put your luggage in the room, but the main hallway is huge, and we all easily just kept our suitcases there for easy access. Very convenient. The living room is very nice and large and has a third twin bed that doubles as extra seating during the day. There is no A/C (almost no one has this in Paris, it seems)- but there is a big fan which helped keep the bedrooms cool at night. There are big windows which allow for good cross-ventilation in the apartment. The bath/shower is a little unusual and felt a little bit cramped - but really not bad by European standards. We tried using the washing machine - and had a hard time getting the soap out of our clothes- we might have put too many clothes in at once. There is a nice drying rack to dry the clothes (no dryer). We just took our essential clothes to the laundromat with washers/dryers right around the corner. There is also a laundry service right there which charges 20 Euros for a load of darks and a load of whites. Not bad. The kitchen is nicely appointed and would be fine to cook in. There is a small dishwasher. We mainly just got things for breakfast as we ate out at night. The fridge is a good size by European standards. Veronique actually had some milk in the fridge for us for our first morning and some coffee for the coffee maker with filters, etc. She also has a list of good restaurants in the area. Veronique was very welcoming- even when we came in quite late on our first night due to a traffic jam, she was so kind, and demonstrated all that...