I have stayed in nearly 100 airbnbs around the world. I have almost never left poor feedback. But this experience really warranted criticism and I hope you’ll listen…
I will start with the good things to be fair to Jerome. The location of the apartment is pretty good, it is not a particularly well known area; particularly for tourists, but it is a local buzz. Overall safe, and lots of grocery and restaurants of all sorts including Libertino of the big mamma group. The apartment itself is pretty charming in that it’s the top floor and has an outdoor terrain of plants and rooftop views, you can even see the top of Effiel Tower at night and it’s spotlight. Jerome does respond well and is helpful as you might expect of a reasonable Airbnb host. This home is quiet for sure!!!
The apartment is small for sure. It is not suitable for more than 2 people. Unless a third slept on the couch and I don’t think that’s possible or Jerome desires such a thing. He was very vocal about being delicate with his furniture as it’s pretty obviously HIS apartment, or used for long term living. There were a lot of signs of someone living there. Food of all varieties in fridge and freezer. Cosmetics and toiletries in various stages of use, and personal effects stuffed into drawers and cabinets. Please understand I am not mistaking these things for items left behind from former guests. It was very obvious that someone had been there for years… Moreover the cleaning fee and per night rate was very high, same as a five star hotel and this place was extremely dirty. Again, 100 give or take stays, I have myself nearly 60 all perfect reviews, I take being a gust seriously but this stay was not the value you might hope for and especially not for the cost. Dust under and on everything! The 2 towels were one full size towel and two medium hand towels and a shower carpet that didn’t appear to be clean. Our towels were stiff like they’d been wet then hung up, not clean. There was clean sheets in the washer washing when we arrived and dirty ones on the bed. If they were clean they smelled months old. Don’t believe me? Take the sheets off the bed if you stay here and examine the stains all over the mattress. Look under the bed, use a wipe to wipe down a surface or two. Look in closet and drawer spaces to see how it’s left lived in.
It seems to me this place is someone’s personal property and they leave when it’s rented which must not be often because we decided a last minute trip and not much was available. I took a lot of photos of the mess but I’m not sure I can upload them but kept them for Airbnb evidence… I never did make a fuss about it because you are in Paris and want to have a magical time and not let things get you down. So what we did was decided to clean the entire house ourselves and went and got cleaning supplies and so on. It’s a grubby place with charm and some decent decor but I’ve stayed in a-lot nicer for a-lot cheaper. The photos really make it look large! The bed has a little room to move on both sides, the bedroom is small. The living room is small and the kitchen and living room are one. The bathroom is even smaller… The outdoor space you can barely walk 5 paces but there is a walled in glass sitting room that is rather nice and quaint.
Based on interactions with Jerome some up and down and definitely assertive, I don’t think he will much like this review but it’s an honest review and perhaps if he takes measures to really clean and provide proper linens for GUESTS not someone’s throw away linens and poor quality towels and such and addresses the parts of this that make it feel like you rented out a friends house then it would be a really decent cute little place but for what we paid which was close to $600 a night, it should have been spotless and well presented. We cleaned we communicated we did everything right and I’ll note he offered day 5 or so to have a maid come, at that point we had everything unpacked and cleaned we declined but my thought is she didn’t come the first time.
When in Paris!