I would never recommend anyone stay here. After less than 48 hours, we felt we needed to leave as we had grown increasingly uncomfortable by the fact the host entered our private room a minimum of 2 times (that we know for certain) without our permission or any acknowledgement that she had done so. While this was the most serious transgression, this was not the only issue with our (brief) stay.
1. The Apartment smelled of cat pee immediately upon entry
2. You had to walk through shared space to get to your private bathroom which was not noted on the listing. The bathroom did not feel or look clean and was so tight you couldn't spit into the sink without hitting the shelf and the door
3. The living space which makes up the majority of the photos is closed off by a door (particularly as evening) as Maguy uses this space as almost her own private part of the apartment.
4. The steet is extremely loud that the room looks out on to.
5. It lists English as one of her languages on the listing, but she does not speak any English.
6. Breakfast is at 9am which on a holiday felt very early to us, and considering there are no other guests as this is NOT an actual bed and breakfast (it is just a room in her apartment), she was not flexible on the timing of this.
7. Despite us letting her know we were exhausted from our travels and hoping to sleep in, she was very loud in the morning which felt disrespectful.
8. She was not responsive via messages once we arrived. We had to ask multiple times about a fan that was pictured in her listing (as she ignored the message). She shared the fan broke, so we asked if she may be able to pick up another as the room was very warm. She, again, ignored the message for several hours despite us seeing her even in passing by the elevator. So I messaged again, she stated she didn't go look for one and asked why I was "harassing" her about the fan.
9. She was incredibly disrespectful about our choice to mask. We know that we are unqiue (particularly in Europe) to continue to mask, but we wanted to do our best to stay well during our three weeks of travels. Upon arrival, Maguy immediately told us to take our masks off by frowning and motioning pulling masks down several times and then writing into her translation app to take them off despite us telling her no, we are choosing to do this multiple times. She then wrote in her app, "I want to stand here and watch how you'll eat with a mask on." Nothing quite like making your guests feel immediately uncomfortable in the space. Then the most aggregious comment she wrote was, "I hope I didn't get my virus in your pie," as she hands us pie while laughing.
We were so shocked by all this considering the good reviews. The only thing I can think that may have changed is she stated, "I wanted to quit (airbnb)" but she had unexpected expenses for her building.
Please save yourself the discomfort and select somewhere else to enjoy Paris from. We had never had an experience like this on AirBnB and if we could prevent someone else from having the same that would make us feel better about it all!