Our stay in Paris was wonderful, and a large part of it was due to the cute, comfortable, clean, conveniently located, well stocked and furnished apartment that we got from Charles. It's on the 3rd floor (ground floor is 0) but has ab elevator, small but works well. Check in was easy enough. I walked about 8 minutes to a laundromat that has a rented lockbox that I got the key from. We had a little trouble with opening the door because we were not familiar with the way it worked. The apartment door lock kept spitting out the key at the end of the turns. I think we spent like 5 minutes trying to unlock the door while laughing hysterically at the keys getting spitted out and falling to the ground. It was truly comical. So turn out we had to turn another quarter turn after unlocking the deadbolt to open the door. We definitely did not feel very bright after struggling so much with it. Another thing we hadbto spend sometimes trying to figure out was the microwave, and the washing machine. I guess they do things a little differently in europe. After we learned the appliances, it got a lot easier. There is almost everything there including basic condiments, and plenty of toilet paper (yay). The apartment is located close enough to the metro stations, at about 8 to 10 minutes walk. It is also close to a grocery store and some small local restaurants. We used metro and bus a lot, and I think the best way is just to buy book of 10 t-tickets at a time, at 1.4 euro per ticket. They work for metro, bus, rer, as long as you are in zone 1,2,3. If you want to go to Versailles, don't buy the day pass, which costs like 17.something euro. Just go to the metro at gare montpanass (I might have spelled that wrong) and buy the one way ticket to Versailles, which costs about 3.6 euro. The ticket back to Paris from Versailles costs about the same and you can also use it until later during the day getting around in Paris. Anyhow, Paris was a lovely city and and we enjoyed it very much. We do highly recommend renting this apartment.