We stayed here 12 nights, top location, nice and quickly responsive hosts, solved small issues fast, beautiful large and comfy apartment. Some outside street noises, but that is part of life, nothing of any concern. Everything you want is in short walking distance: Sights, best restaurants, bars, anything you want. Marie has great suggestions for restaurants, the metro in front of the door, parking garage within 100 meters. PERFECT!
Unfortunately, there are some issues, which are apparently out of the hosts’ control:
On Friday the pickup of the garbage containers is at 5 am, the containers are rolled through the hall, very noisy! At 6 am the same day the containers are cleaned, again the same extremely loud noise that wakes you up, even when wearing ear plugs and closing all doors and windows.
The cleaner of this building starts early and bumps his broom quite loud against doors, walls and baseboards
One night between 4.30 and 5.30 am we heard loud talking right under the bedroom (in the hallway of the building), looked down and saw a line of people waiting to be let in one of the apartments in the same building, all dressed up waiting to party.
There is a pharmacy downstairs with frequent deliveries and lots of stuff being carried from A to B and back.
There are two adjoining restaurants/snack bars at the ground floor, putting tables and chairs outside and inside and being supplied by deliveries.
Worst of all, upstairs lives a woman with a child, they walk and RUN like elephants, loud stampeding, hours and hours per day. They open and close doors and drawers like they want to pulverize them. The boy runs sometimes for hours. It gave me headaches sleepless mornings and a lot of irritation.
The hosts talked to them and said they were not very responsive and empathic they could do nothing about it.
The hosts talked to the building management (le syndic) about the garbage pickup and cleaning but the next Friday was exactly the same situation.
I went up to talk to the upstairs woman, but she yelled at me that I was not allowed to talk to her, that she would talk to the building management and that everything would be solved. After that everything went worse, it even seemed that the upstairs neighbours even wanted to make my life more miserable. When I walked (on socks or bare feet, not to disturb others) it felt like they heard me and started making even more noise.
It was the worst experience in any apartment I ever stayed in, in 45 years. The hosts offered us to move for the last few days and return the money for the coming days, but all the apartments on our favourite list were unavailable, and we wanted to stay in the same area in an apartment that suited us. I do not like to stay in hotels, because of small rooms. we checked hundreds of apartments before we chose this one. Also moving from one apartment to another at 20.00 or 21.00 is not very convenient. Another minor detail: we prepaid the parking garage for 13 days and we had reservations in nearby restaurants.
Two days before departure Marie asked if everything was better now, I responded: Au contraire and explained the worsening situation. No response at all on my reply.
There were no coffee capsules at all for the first few days, nothing in the fridge to eat or drink except a cheap bottle of Rosé. So, I had to do grocery shopping immediately. After having driven a long time to get there and considering the price of this apartment not exactly what I expected.
There were some small stains on the bed sheets, as well as on the pillow covers (looked like blood).
The curtains are very hard to open and close because they are attached with soft plastic rings which stick to the curtain rod.
Some windows are impossible to open, because they are blocked by the curtain rods.