We were a group ofseven women aged between 50 and 70 who stayed for three nights. It was good to have a spacious apartment in a convenient location. There were some minor problems when we arrived, e.g. insufficient towels, no tea towels, and some broken light bulbs, but a message to Mathilde soon produced results.
We enjoyed our breakfasts of croissants and bread from the boulangerie opposite, and there is a convenient Carrefour supermarket very close by, though we ate out every evening so didn't do much cooking at the apartment.
It would have been helpful to have more precise instructions for rubbish disposal as the notices in the kitchens about separating waste did not specify what could be recycled, and we had to re-sort the waste once we took it to the bins.
Our otherwise enjoyable short break in Paris was somewhat spoilt by an extremely raucous and noisy party in the flat above us from 1 a.m to 6 a.m. on our last night there. It kept us awake all night and our final day was spolt because we were too tired to do much walking around. It would have been helpful to know that we could have phoned Mathilde at any hour for help in this situation. There are very strict house rules telling guests not to disturb neighbours, but no advice about what to do in the event of neighbours disturbing guests. The house rules only state: 'Strictly no partying or loud music. Please consider other residents of the building.' It would have been helpful to be told in advance rather than after the event that Mathilde would have responded in the middle of the night by calling the police to end the disturbance.