This unit is in a great location in a "high rent" area of Paris that's nice and clean. We walked to the Eiffel, Arc de Triumph, Seine river walk, Champs de Elysee, and to lots of nice restaurants in the immediate area.
What you see in the pictures of the large windows and curved stairs with upper balcony is actually there and have a positive impact on how the apt feels (as we got from the photos in the 1st place), but we were disappointed at the amount of water damage, loose plaster and peeling paint in multiple areas of the unit that the owner omits mentioning in their description and then downplays in their replies to user comments about them. This is occurring in the wall of the living room, across the window sill of the whole picture window, in the ceiling of one bathroom and on a lower wall in the dining area. There are 10-15 (plus or minus) gray/black spots about the size of tennis balls developing on the walls by the stairs that we thought might be mold coming from behind the paint from the same water infiltration that's caused the other damage mentioned above. Apt needs a lot of work in this regard and is not up to par compared to the way the unit shows on-line, or it's price. We felt that the price does not reflect the current condition.
A washer and dryer in unit were on our "must have list" and it was frustrating that we were never able to get the water on for the washing machine. (The washing machine would turn on and the dry clothes tumbled around as though it was working, but nothing got wet, so nothing was cleaned.) The host had left instructions on where to set the dials which we followed. We looked up the model online and also translated all the words of the control dials on the internet to see if we were missing something, but nothing, including a response from the host, provided an answer that got the water to turn on. We thought it was maybe off at the source in the apt and not a problem with the unit itself but host thought it was how we set the dials. Maybe it was just us and we weren't smart enough to figure it out. [And thanks Nicolas (our contact for the host), for offering to come and turn the washer for us the following day. After getting your initial reply about how to set the dials with no results, I had already spent a couple hours hand washing the essentials before your 2nd reply with the offer to come over was delivered.] The dryer is also really little and took several hours to dry 1 pair of pants and 2 shirts so all the rest I had hand washed got hung to dry overnight and maybe it was a good thing all the other clothes I intended to wash didn't need to dry.
The master bath could easily have a shower curtain installed so that you can use the shower function. As it currently is, with no curtain, I tried but it's only good for taking a bath unless you want to mop the floor (and there are no towels to spare). We're shower people so we ended up using the shower in the 2nd bedroom. Our girls were in that bedroom. If it were another couple we were sharing the apt with it would have been more intrusive and awkward. Apt was more like having 1 full bath and 2 half baths instead of 2 full and one half baths. A previous guest had suggested putting in a shower curtain already, so you can't say we didn't know this might be an issue. Adding a curtain seems such an easy fix. Maybe not to this owner.
We didn't really use the kitchen much except for the refrigerator and hot water pot for coffee, but it's a full kitchen with full size cook top, refer, sink, plates, knives, etc. We had to provide our own coffee, which was the same as other Air BnBs we had on this trip. We also had to provide our own paper towels and napkins since the unit didn't come with them, which surprised us. Host provided soap, and a bathroom shampoo/lotion/bubble bath set, toilet paper and 1 bath towel and 1 hand towel only, per person, and no towels in downstairs bath so we used one of the hand towels down there. We used the bubble bath like shower gel but otherwise provided our own shampoos and lotions.
The 2 bedrooms are both upstairs, separated from each other with the 2 bathrooms in-between them, and were nice and comfy. There was a dresser and lots of closet space in both rooms.
Wifi worked fine.
It seemed unusually cool for June during the day/evening so we opened the windows as needed and didn't need heat or A/C.
The beds were comfortable and it was very quiet in the apt at night, and pretty quiet even during the day with the windows open--though we were mostly out during the day.
The unit is large, quiet, unit, building & area all feel very safe, and the building is nice, secure at the street level, and has an elevator.
This apt was the most expensive apt we rented in our 4 city stay BY FAR, but also had the most negatives (water damage, 1 usable shower, washer problem) Still, all-in-all we had a good time in Paris and in the apt. We had plenty of room for 4 (2 adults, one high schooler and one college student) and got good nights of sleep without noise bothering us.