Location, location, location! walking distance to Rue Mouffetard, one of the oldest streets in Paris, with some highly rated snacks, foods. Metro 7 is 9-minute walk away which leads you anywhere in Paris in 10-30 minutes. The neighborhood is very typical Latin Quarter, with cafe, restaurant, boulangerie, patisserie, boucherie, chocolatier, ... anything critical for a complete Paris experience, is pretty much within walking distance. If you'd prefer, you can get to many Latin Quarter locations by foot. Close to most tourist destinations saved us lots of commute hours in metro. We used the time to feel the Paris streets or sitting in an outdoor table watching people passing by instead. The host Marine was a great host! Even though this time we didn't meet her in person, but she made all arrangements in advance for check-in, check-out, even with back-up plans! The process turned out to be very smooth. We followed her instruction to get to her place by bus from Gare de Lyon after TGV from southern France, picked up the keys from a grocery store across street. Marine also asked neighbor to send us a 2nd set of keys as we are a family group of 6. Check-out was clearly instructed and easy. Marine prepared all necessities including extra linens for our stay. virtually anything we need during our weekly long stay she has it in house. The building is not new, but has a flavor of the history. Living in Shanghai and California, that's the flavor we are looking for when staying in Paris. Watering the flowers in balcony, listening to pigeons early in the morning and overlooking the penthouse windows across street all reminded ourselves it is in Paris. Overall my family had a great stay in Paris in Marine's flat, definitely recommend to others.