Okay, let's start with the positives: the room is quite cute, the location is perfect and the view from the window is just magical. Seeing the Eiffeltower at night really gives you the best Paris experience.
However, this is basically it for the positives. Now, let me explain why I would not recommend this place:
- First of all, there are a couple of things left out of the advertisement, which I think are important to know when you decide to book this. The first thing is that the toilet is not in your own room, but in the hallway. Everytime you have to go to the toilet, you will have to get dressed, because you might bump into neighbours, (which is annoying when you have to get out at night), and more importantly, you have to take the key with you everytime! If you'll forget the key and close the door behind you, you'll have quite a problem... Secondly, this apartment is on the 6th floor. Now, climbing stairs is not really the problem, but a decent picture of the stairs in the advertisement would have been wise. Because these are no normal stairs; they are reallllyyyyy small spiral stairs (the stairs are build into a sort of small Rapunzel tower). You can imagine the trouble you go through when you need to carry large suitcases up there. If my suitcase would have been just a bit bigger, it genuinly would not have fit through there.
- The second complaint I have, is that the appartment was absolutely NOT CLEAN when I arrived. I feel like the only thing that got cleaned was the bed. But the floor was strewn with crumbs and tiny black hairs (I don't even want to know which bodypart these hairs came from). I wish I could add photos in the review. Then you could see what I had to sweep up myself when I got there; it really was a lot. Also, in the advertisement it becomes clear that the bed is also a couch, so you can turn the bed into the couch during the day. However, the bottom of the bed (which is the fabric of the couch you'll sit on) was extremely dirty. There were these black little hairs again and yellow stains. So eventhough the pictures in the advertisement said that there would be a couch, this was basically unusable... And when I arrived, there were still dishes in the kitchen..
I paid €150 for cleaning costs. My question is; what cleaning exactly? Because it feels like I was the only one who actually did the cleaning.
I stayed here for 6 weeks, so when I asked for new beddings after some time, Maia told me that she would ask the concierge to come and do it for me. Well.. maybe THIS is why I paid €150 for cleaning, I thought. But in the end, I only got the new beddings, and I had to actually do this myself AGAIN TOO!
- Third point: the appartment was not very well equipped. There were no tea-towels for doing dishes, there was no proper cutting knife for vegetables, there were no bowls for eating soup or something, there were only two very old and dirty sponges, and in the advertisement it said there would be an iron, but there wasn't. Most of this, I eventually had to buy myself because I did need it during my stay, but this just should have been there, and should not have been extra costs for me.
- Fourth, it has happened several times that I was in the shower and the hot water suddenly stopped, and I was then standing under ice cold water.
- Lastly, Maia's responding time was often frustratingly long. When I had certain questions that
needed to be answered quickly, I had to wait for days. Even when I took this long time into account and therefore sent a message early, it took almost a week before I received an answer.
Even before my departure I received no further message about (for example) what I had to do with the key when I left.
Overall, a bad experience. By cleaning and buying certain neccesities myself, I could make it a comfortble stay for 6 weeks, but I would definitely not recommend it to anyone.