My sister and I stayed at Astrid's apartment for one week. It was great! I have spent a lot of time in Paris (school and travels), so this is not my first time here.
My sister and I each like to have our separate rooms and this fit the bill. The neighborhood is in the 14th and is very quiet and secure. The building has double locks to enter so no one will wander into the building. It was a short 5 minute walk to rue Daguerre for the shops as well as to the Avenue de General LeClerc for larger shops. There is a market twice weekly only a few hundred feet from the apartment door at Mouton Duvernet. For transportation from the Denfert-Rochereau station (by the lion statue), Metro line 4 will take you to the Saint Michel/Notre Dame area in less than 15 minutes directly. Line 6 will take you to the Eiffel Tower in about 15 minutes as well. It is a fantastic area with great connections. We arrived by RER line B directly from Charles DeGaulle airport, and it was a very smooth arrival at the Denfert-Rochereau station as well, followed by a short walk to the apartment.
The beds were comfortable and I did sleep well. As noted previously, this is a private apartment building and there are 'regular' Parisians living in the other apartments. There are children in the apartment above Astrid's. We did hear them running around a little on rainy days, but it was not bothersome at all.
We did not use the oven or stove, only the coffeemaker and the hotpot to make coffee and tea. The showers were good as well. Just to note--there is one toilet room and two shower rooms with sinks-- one of them has a tub/shower combo, the other has just a shower.
Supplies: there were coffee filters and some spices in the cabinets, but we did go food shopping for soap, shampoo, coffee and other supplies. There is a Franprix as well as a Monoprix on rue Daguerre for those items.
Be sure to try the AMAZING pastries at the shop on the corner of rue Daguerre---Merveilleux de Fred---there are pastry chefs making this one pastry/cake (Merveilleux) all day long in the windows as well as a LONG line of people waiting to buy them. We tried them and they were DELICIOUS and well worth the calories!
On departure day, we had to leave at 6:30 am, and while there is the RER B line at Denfert Rochereau as well as a taxi station there, we decided to take a taxi. Astrid came to the apartment and arranged for a pickup at 6:30am for us even though we could have dragged our suitcases to the taxi station. She was wonderful and very sweet! Taxi pickup from the apartment to the airport was 65€ one way.
Communication was perfect--if I had a question, Astrid answered very quickly via WhatsApp.
I would definitely stay here again. We had a great experience!