Summary: Lovely flat, a couple of MINOR inconveniences, great location for food places and exploring Le Marais, short-to-medium walk to a few tube lines. RECOMMENDED!

Great things:

- Lovely flat with lots of cooking ingredients, books, accessories (e.g. gloves, umbrella etc), toiletries (shower gel, toilet paper etc),

- Didn't get to meet the hosts as they were out of the country, but they made an effort to write things down for us in detail beforehand and also left detailed notes inside the flat, as well as maps.

- Some lovely food places very nearby in all directions! One especially good one (so we've heard) right next door to the flat itself!

- A short-to-moderate (7-8min) walk to many metro stations on varying lines.

- Great location to explore Le Marais. A "Velib" (Paris bike rental) station a minute's walk away.

Inconveniences / Improvements:

- Noting that we couldn't meet the hosts as they were out of the country.... We didn't know we needed a code for the bottom door as we weren't given one. We were VERY lucky that someone came into the column of flats at the very same time we arrived that let us in and told us the code.

- When we came in, there was a patch on the carpet on the bed's level that was wet, probably because the roof window had been left open (for our comfort) and it had rained before we got there.

- The lock on the main door was a little difficult to work out and get right, but after a little struggle and experimentation, we got used to it.

- We couldn't get the lock on the bathroom door to work (although admittedly we didn't try very hard).

OVERALL: Recommended :)