This is a great flat!! Stephane met us outside the building and showed us everything.
This flat is in a fun part of town, very young and social part of town. The flat was surrounded by brasseries that were open and VERY busy until about midnight. It was’t a problem as we just treated it like the sounds of a city! Plenty of great places to eat, and there were places open in the morning early for espresso. Also, and almost most importantly, this house is VERY close to public transit. It was very easy to move around paris, we took metro, bus, taxi, uber, even rented electric scooters. We were in town showing the highlights to our three children, and having transit so close was nice because kids only have so much walking in them.
This area is great, and you can tell it is gentrifying. You don’t have to walk too far to realize that at one point it was a red light district, there are still a few holdout sex shops, and massage parlors. If you are super squeamish about this stuff, it is isolated to one or two areas and isn’t explicit. I never felt like there was a bad crowd associated with these places as the overwhelming majority of the people in this part of town were well dressed professional appearing young people under the age of 40. There is a large shopping mall with train station two blocks away, groceries store etc close by. And...there is a creperie literally directly below the flat.
The flat itself was decent, considering that it is Paris. Anybody coming from the US just needs to know that if you want square footage, you need to be prepared to pay big money. The flat itself was updated very nicely, bathroom was new, had a private washer and dryer. Kitchen was small, but well stocked for what we needed(I went to patisserie and MonoPrix right around the corner for breakfast food. Otherwise, we didn’t come to Paris to cook for ourselves!). Living area was tight for 5 people, but we did great. No AC so this can be a bit toasty during the day. We kept the windows open most of the time for fresh(it is paris so “fresh” is subjective”) air. Building was safe, there was two magnetic doors to get in and then very secure lock on the flat. Entrance to the building was off of a busy street so there wasn’t any dark alley sketchy stuff.
I would definitely recommend this place!