"BEWARE SEWAGE"" this apartment is not "Brand New" There are reviews on this apartment since Nov 2016 and it has not been maintained to a Brand New state. First impressions; part of the banister on the stairwell was broken and one of the landings was supported with a temporary prop, odd smell in apartment, mould in all of the showers, skirting boards missing, bedroom doors don't shut or lock, water damaged walls, curtains ripped, fridge had stale smell & generally appeared used. As we were exhausted from a 36hr flight, we had dinner out then returned to collapse in bed. The next morning we noticed the smell was worse, but went off sightseeing all day. When we returned the smell was quite obvious "SEWAGE!! and was coming from the two ensuite showers. The smell was horrendous, we slept that night with all of the windows open - Paris mid winter!!!! We contacted the owner to have the issue dealt with and during the messages back and forth, it turned out that he had known about the issue previously!!. The cause of the sewage smell was not resolved during are 6 night stay and everyday we had to have the caretaker come into the apartment and apply some strong chemicals to the wastes in the bathrooms to combat the horrendous sewage smells. Because of the smells, either the sewage or the chemicals, we could not spend anytime in the apartment and had to only spend the minimum amount of time sleeping there (with all of the windows open). Upon looking back at some of the previous reviews of this apartment I noticed that the sewage smells had been a problem before (I wish I had taken time to read these reviews now before booking here!!!) When we asked the host for some compensation he only offered 2 free nights stay on our next visit and told us that we were dishonest people!! We live 14000km away in NZ and not planning to return to Paris anytime soon and anyway why would we choose to stay there again!!! To top the whole experience off my wife and daughter ended up getting sick from the smells and been forced to sleep with the windows open in winter, two weeks later and my wife is still coughing and ill from the experience. We have complained to Airbnb about the issues we have had and sincerely hope that they take some action about this.
My recommendation is to avoid this apartment at all costs. There is a large variety of accomodation options in Paris. I would hate anybody else to endure what we did.