This review is written by my son, Daniel, who stayed at Charles' apartment for 8 nights.
Charles' apartment was absolutely incredible. Firstly, the apartment is beautiful, even better than the pictures. It is well - kept, neat and stylish. it has a lovely little porch which is nice, a quite comfortable living room and bed, and an easy to use kitchen in which we cooked a couple of times. It also has a speaker system which you can play music on which was great and a video projector which could have been awesome to use if we had a laptop.
Secondly, although we were a bit worried about the apartments location it turned out as a great one. the apartment's neighborhood is really cool and there are many great restaurants, bars, cafe's and boulangeries in the area. It really seems like an up-and-coming and youthful neighborhood and at evenings and nights lots of people are picnicking and sitting by the canal which is lovely. The apartment is very close to the canal (about a minute walk) and also very close to the amazing park buttes -chaumont (about 7 minute walk) which I recommend highly to visit. The only minor downside to the location is that the metro rides to get to the center are a bit long but we didn't really mind.
Lastly, Charles was a great host. We had great communication and he would always answer very quickly. He also left for us in the apartment some groceries whic was really nice and recommended us on really great places in the neighborhood which we ended up visiting almost every day in our trip.
Overall, we had an amazing stay and I recommend the apartment a lot.