Let's get the good things out of the way first.
- The location is awesome - right next to the city hall / Hotel de Ville, restaurants, bakeries and all Paris has to offer.
- Our concierge, Dorssaf, was amazingly solicit and promptly provided us with everything we needed to make our stay a good experience.
- The kitchen is well equipped with everything you need - oven, hob, microwave, fridge with freezer and all cutlery and dishes you'd expect to find in a real home.
But...
In one of the toilets was a feces stained bathroom carpet (which made the bathroom smelly as well) - totally poor job by their cleaning team.
The lights in the living room weren't working properly, we had to turn on every lamp in the room and even then it was too dark in the kitchen in the evening.
The ceiling window wasn't working, so we were left with a ridiculously warm apartment. At least they provided us fans for every room (I had to ask for one extra - which they provided promptly, albeit barely functioning - two were already there).
The wooden planks covering the heating radiators were loose in the living room, and almost fell on the feet of my 13 year old when he was taking stuff he had put there.
The bathroom in the "master suite" smells really bad - seems they forgot to install a drain trap when doing the plumbing - can't say I enjoyed sleeping while inhaling sewer gas. The shades on the "window" to the living room from both bedrooms were broken to the point you couldn't properly close or open them.
The sofa bed was NOT the one in the pictures, albeit not worse, just different.
The chairs for the living room table are horrible to sit on - they are basically wire rack with no cushions provided.
All in all it seems someone sought to make a quick buck out of converting the building's patio into a rental apartment. That's fine, but it's all very poorly done, you can see that all expense was spared when doing the cupboards and woodwork, as well as the tiling work in the bathrooms - speaking of which, 2 bathrooms but only 1 toilet bowl....
Anyway, our stay was okay, it's definitely an acceptable apartment at a great location - but we felt misled by the pictures, weren't happy with the cleanliness, and disappointed by the decay of the existing installations.