We arrived in Paris and were welcomed by David’s friend who kindly showed us around.
The apartment is well situated and the elevator is useful for extra luggage. It’s in a really central area with a big grocery store and a metro station next to it which was very handy.
Sadly the overall condition of the apartment itself was not great. A majority of the power plugs did not work, which made charging our phones and laptops very difficult. We managed to find one plug in the kitchen which worked and one in the bedroom area only. The apartment gets incredible warm so it was nice that there was a fan to cool it down a bit. If you aren’t very heat resilient; however, you’ll probably have trouble sleeping.
The towels and linen were definitely washed beforehand because they were not yet folded upon our arrival, the hosts friend kindly took care of this for us. However, the towels had a terrible moldy or musky smell to them due to what we assume is the bad circulation in the apartment. The bathroom stayed quite humid for a long time after showing (even thought we only took cold showers due to the heat) and there is mold on the shower curtains.
The main light in the room also does not work. Nor does the bedside light. The kitchen was not very clean, eg grease all over the oven and food rests in the hinges.
Finally, we had a lot of work to do during our time in Paris but the Wi-Fi did not work and we had to pay for unreliable mobile data. We contacted the host about the WiFi but nothing was done about it as it was allegedly an issue with the entire area the apartment is in. We could see that neighbouring wifi signals were working so we don’t actually know what the issue was. Nevertheless it was highly inconveniencing and costly for us.