Location, location, location!
Lea’s apartment is 1 block from the Louvre. You can easily walk to the Louvre, gardens, Arc to Triumph, and lots of great restaurants. However, this also means you hear street noise 24 hours/day, including scooter parking below the bedroom window. The apartment is a good size, especially for the downtown location. The checkin process is a big hassle because it requires walking 10 minutes to a small market to get the key, then another 10 minutes to the apartment. The keys have to be returned to the market before you leave, but the market is not necessarily the direction you are traveling. Not the ideal way to checkin and out when you just want to drop your bags and go explore Paris.