1. The apartment was accessed from the street through a rather dirty, cluttered courtyard at the back of which were some rickety stairs leading up to the apartment on the second floor .
2. The apartment itself was different from the misleading photos advertising it on AirBnB, which made it look spacious. In fact, it was a single room apartment with sofa bed in the middle, which was folded up as a sofa and not shown in the photos. When we arrived, the sofa was extended as a bed, filling most of the room.
3. While not dirty, the whole place looked tired, with creaking bed, lumpy pillows, cramped kitchen as part of the same room, tiny plastic shower room. There is a large cylindrical water heater immediately above the WC which I hit my head on. We had planned a few days comfortable holiday in Paris and this was not what we expected.
4. Our host was friendly and helpful, and we would not have commented or sought redress for our disappointment. We left within 30 minutes, leaving the key in the apartment and texted him to say we were not staying. We were fortunate to find suitable alternative accommodation not far away.
5. We would have left it at that, but since our host has commented on AirBnB, we have felt obliged to give an assessment of this AirBnB experience from the guest point of view.