We chose to live in this district, amongst the locals and the buzz of daily lives of locals.
Living here provides convenient access to many food choices as well as supermarkets.
The Metro is also closely and Gare du Nord is a 15mins walk away.
Located conveniently to most places, we practically walked to Montmarte, Marais, Norte Dame, St Germain, Galleries Lafayette, Musee du Louvre…just to name a few.
The apartment is located on #01 of a old building which consisted of residential as well as offices.
Access into the building as well as the apartment is secured and via a small lift which can take either 3 regular-sized adults or tow adults and 2 luggages.
The apartment is per described, in the post….it is nice, clean and cosy…has basic necessities (washing detergents, pepper and salt as well as white goods). The owner has also provided a lot of clean, white towels. Ample pillows accompany the comfortable beds which came with clean linens.
Heaters are placed thought the unit and we felt comfortable throughout our stay.
Though we may consider renting this apartment should we return to Paris, we would hope for some improvements as follows:
- the apartment is said to to accommodate up to 10 persons. With this as well as the needs for WIFI, the host may need to consider installing a WIFI with stronger bandwidth as the WIFI was not able to accommodate the needs of 6 users.
- it is considerate that the apartment is well heated and has provision of necessary white good. On the fist night, when we did our laundry, it short circuited the entire apartment, resulting in a blackout. Luckily, the hostess was reactive and helped us locate the circuit box*.
- this apartment comes with 2 bathrooms which one that does not have the toilet bowl but catered to showering, two basins and laundry machine. It would have been ideal if there is a shelf, in the shower area, for the bath and shampoo bottles, instead of having to leave them on the floor.
- the only downside, of this apartment, was that the dishwasher was really dirty. It could be that their cleaner was not detailed, to also clean the internal of the dishwasher.
*coming from Asia, we realized that the circuit boxes (in Europe) are all located in the weirdest location i.e in a concealed location, behind a makeshift wood panel, at the top of the bathroom….next to the main door but concealed behind a white coagulated wood panel. It is not obvious.
With all things said, I do recommend this apartment as the host is responsive and helpful.
It would be perfect if the above issues were rectified.