The review left just before we were due to arrive worried me as I thought perhaps the place was going to be terrible. It’s not at all. For what you pay, it’s very adequate. Very clean, very small, very noisy without the windows closed - Claude is regularly transparent about this both in his descriptions and responses to reviews. There is a smell from the pipes but I expect this from certain big city places. We were hardly ever there - we didn’t come to Paris to stay in our room. The south side of Pigalle is sensational. Pigalle metro is just over the road. We walked everywhere from here. Claude was very helpful and communicative and allowed our teenage godson to leave his bags in the room and come back to fetch them later, which was kind of him. The only real problem I can see is noise when the weather is hot (which it wasn’t for us) and you need windows opened. Light sleepers would need earplugs. Thank you, Claude!