We spent a memorable 10 days at Thomas’s flat. The flat was in an ideal location for exploring Paris on foot. It’s a very touristy street but close to everything. The flat is appears to be a permanent short-stay apartment.
The flat was clean and looked the same as the photos. As others have mentioned there is a club downstairs and the music is very loud and goes on until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. There are very large windows which are lovely, but there are no child guards or locks on the windows. Also, most Airbnbs I have stayed in provide a few basics whereas this flat had salt, pepper, vinegar, a tiny bottle of dish soap, a tiny bar of hand soap, and a single roll of toilet paper. There is a Monoprix nearby were we bought the items we needed.
There is a garbage bin on the second floor of the building but surprisingly there is no recycling but we found a large recycling bin on a nearby street.
Key pick up was done at a nearby lock box which was easy. Communication with Thomas was minimal and we had no communication from him at all during our stay. It would have been nice if he had touched base at least once to see if everything was okay. We got several emails from a rental company before, and during our stay but they were all standard letters. We also received a lot of spam from other service providers (airport pickup, insurance, bag storage).
There were a few surprises with this listing that I feel are worth mentioning. The first is that the address of the flat was not provided once the Airbnb booking was confirmed. I did not find out the address until after I had completed a detailed form about our stay and purchased some additional “mandatory” insurance for 55 euros. The second is that the welcome binder in the flat included a very detailed list of cleaning that was expected with threats of extra charges if this was not done. Given that there was $125 cleaning fee charged through Airbnb, I did not expect to spend the last day of my holiday scrubbing floors and bathrooms, with cleaning supplies that I had to buy myself.