The apartment:
The apartment is located close to supermarkets like franprix and intermarche and to the incredible croissant, éclair, … Maison Landemaine and also close to subway. Not a central zone in Paris but good decision in relation of location/price per night.
The apartment is very small but not different from the photos expectation. The low point is no micro wave and, in our case, the oven was not working and so we had a big problem with meals in our visit to Paris.
The fridge is normal size but since this is the house of Gaelle you will have problems with space because, in our case, there was a reasonable volume in the fridge but zero space in the freezer, so take that in consideration at this apartment because in accordance with Gaelle this is "normal" since she lives there.
Soundproof is terrible. We don’t clear understand from where, but during our stay, at around 11PM until 2AM there is disco music, every day. During day, some kind of works were being performed in the apartment close to ours so hammers where there every hour from 9 AM to 4 PM. Sure this works were only for a confined period of days, but in our case was everyday. Also the access to this apartment was from stairs (2 levels) wood stairs in an elliptical stairway, quite dangerous for older people and kids.
The "superhost" Gaelle:
She gave us all the information required, before and during visit. All the whatsapp messages are responded very fast, but for my criteria this is not enough, why ?:
1)Gaelle sent us a message 4 days before departure referring that bath towels are not included. Never seen this in any of our dozens of travels in Airbnb and other platforms of similar products. This cause us trouble because we are 4 people and needed to pay extra luggage for the travel to Paris. Gaelle said “It’s my apartment, so it doesn’t work exactly like a hotel on that …”
2)	4 days before the arrival, Gaelle inform that she will not be available in check in. Neither she or any other person…
3)	When we arrived, we bought food to cook in the apartment (that’s why we choose apartment). We discovered that the oven do not heat up. We contact Gaelle in the first night and she explained what we should do. Doesn't work. We changed videos and nothing could put that oven heating. So we could not cook nothing in microwave, neither oven. So food to the trash.
4)	When we open the fridge we had a fair space for fridge but zero space for freezer. She says “ its normal, its my house where I live”. Normal ??
No, it is not normal, nothing of this is normal and Mrs Gaelle in the end, after nobody was available to check the apartment at checkout, asked Airbnb for compensation of 50 eur because she says the kitchen is not clean and also there is a little blood in a sheet.
I have 105.000 reviews in tripadvisor because I’m used to travel to lots of different countries and places. It is the first time I see somebody think this way, as it is normal not to have towels, normal not to have someone waiting and show that everything is working, normal that there is not space in the freeze, normal to ask extra money after I paid so much for 4 days.
For my culture is unacceptable.