If you read nothing else of this review: In short, I do not recommend this space if you want to enjoy your holiday in Paris. While it is definitely in a good location, there are several other options in the area which I assume would have more welcoming hosts that would not try to extort you a week after your stay.
It is a 6 floor walk-up and the stairs are very long and narrow. If you are bringing suitcases it is a major inconvenience. The space is much smaller than it looks in the pictures. The bed was also very tight for 2 of us. Maybe it is a more ideal space for one person. Also if you had space in your bags I recommend you to bring your own pillow as the ones provided are not bed pillows. But, in retrospect, that wasn’t even in issue in the scope of how the stay went. We were only provided one towel for 2 of us and a half roll of toilet paper for the length of our 11 day stay.
The second night of my stay and me and my 60 year-old mother are jet lagged; we are sitting in the living room and chatting, at regular human volumes — not screaming, no music — when all of a sudden my phone rang and it was Mehdi being very rude and yelling at me about it being 3 am and that I cannot make noises. I did not know they lived downstairs since they never said hi or welcomed us or anything like that. I also did not know our speaking volume would be heard from anywhere but the room we were in. I kept saying I’m sorry, but it was not good enough for Mehdi and he kept yelling at me. I understand it may be annoying to hear people talking, but there are also ways to say it without yelling or being rude especially to people who are paying (not a small amount of money) to rent your space. On the contrary, we were woken up every morning around 7am because of their kids screaming in the hallway.
On my check out day, I was awoken at 8am with someone knocking on the door very hard. I was scared, but the knocking did not stop so I opened it. It was the cleaner coming to clean. The apartment for checkout several hours before checkout time. He was talking to me in French and as a non French speaker I was unable to understand him. I cleaned the whole apartment with the cleaning supplies I found in the closet thinking a host would appreciate that. As I’m a 5-year Super Host in NYC; it is very important for me to leave the space as clean as I find it. While exiting the apartment I ran into the cleaning guy again who was waiting to clean the space right outside the door.
3 days after I left I received messages from the hosts accusing me of “damages” they claimed I caused. They sent a picture of a very small scrape of paint on the corner of their wall claiming that I caused and claimed that it was definitely me as there was paint powder on the ground. It is suspicious finding it 3 days after I left (which is also 3 days after the cleaning happened) after they probably had other guests. They also claimed that I stained their shower curtain with black hair dye. Quick question: why would I dye my naturally black hair black in their bath tub in the 11 days of my Paris vacation? I’m 26 years old and have no white hair to dye, and my mom has blond hair (and still had blond hair upon our departure). They also sent a picture of their lightly colored rug with a non-existent stain that they claimed I made. This is where it gets extra weird. Initially they didn’t want to involve airbnb, they just wanted to arrange a “deal” to cover the fees. They also claimed that this would all cost around $300 USD because no one would come to fix any of it for less than that. That is insane. I could get a whole floor of my apartment professionally painted for that cost. All in all, they were bogus claims in an attempt to extort cash from a guest. That’s deeply inappropriate.
I regret booking this space and I don’t recommend it or its hosts.