Pros:
Fantastic location. Very quiet street. Friends can be in apartments in the same building. Property manager (woman) is very kind and helpful. Renovated bathrooms. Clean sheets and nice robes. Lovely book with food recommendations and instructions. A nice bottle of wine surprise. Very nice baby crib left for us. Elevator.
Cons:
Mathieu isn’t great at communication- messaged and texted multiple times over a 15 hour period asking when we could check in and none were ever answered. Had to resort to calling. The apartment is tiny - I know it’s Paris, but the showers are in literal broom closets on their own. As is one of the toilets (then you must go to the kitchen or the sink in a bedroom to wash your hands.). So while it says “3.5 bathrooms”, the actual count is one true bathroom with a tub/shower, sink and toilet, and 2 showers each in their own closets as well as 1 additional toilet in its own closet and a sink in the smallest bedroom. FYI if you’re drawing a bath- there’s no way to do it except to get into the tub first.
The noise throughout the building is loud. This isn’t anything Mathieu can control as it’s a very old building - but it’s hard to sleep. The apartment was also extremely hot. We turned the radiators all the way down and opened windows somewhat- but the air quality was so poor we felt we needed a break from sleeping with them open. It was March, and warm at 70° during the day, but not sweltering outside. The apartment just traps heat. One of the rooms was so small, it was the size of the bed and a sink in it, and it was the worst. Kitchen very hard to cook in as a large table (assume for more counter space?) took up any space for the 1 person to be in it that could be. And the doors inside the apt - omg. It became a running joke how loud and just plan DIFFICULT they were to open and close. I had to wake my husband up every night to shut our door after I went to bed - I couldn’t physically do it- and the sound of shutting it is enough to wake up everyone in the building (we heard other people attempting to close their doors.) Why not renovate those too…? Not enough chairs at the table for the number of people that the apartment can sleep. We ate breakfast in shifts.
We probably wouldn’t stay here again but it was fine for our purposes this time. We definitely had enough toilet paper so that review is a bit odd. No shampoo, although it says it is available in the amenities list so bring your own. Beds are also decent but not anything stellar.