Véronique has a very beautiful apartment. It’s conveniently located by 2 metro stations and has a bunch of restaurants and bakeries around, which was lovely.
If you are going to stay here it’s important to know Véronique only speaks French, and it takes time for her to respond to messages. I had sent her a couple messages through Airbnb using Google translate to write in French. The day before I was to pick up the keys she called and left me a voicemail in French, acknowledging that I may not speak much French but anyway… and the message was to change the meeting time to pick up the keys. That was stressful. She finally texted me back the morning of, thankfully.
Maria, the lady that cleans the place and hands over the keys, is very kind, but again, only speaks French. The day I picked up the keys she let me know she was going to be unavailable for a few days so essentially we were on our own. After arriving at the place from the airport we could not get the door to open with the keys. No response from Veronique when we called, but luckily Maria answered and explained in simple French that there’s a trick to the door where you have to pull the door in while turning the key to get it to open. So maybe practice unlocking the door when you pick up the keys from Maria so you learn the trick.
After that things went very smooth. Note that if you’re staying for more than a day or two you’ll need to provide your own garbage bags, toilet paper and dishwasher tablets, there’s no extras in the apartment.
Overall, beautiful apartment and good location but communication was not as good as I’ve had with other Airbnb owners.