After hearing of rain, floods, blockades and terrorism we were a little concerned about visiting Paris in June 2016. Sandra welcomed our family with grace to the perfect traditional beautiful apartment block with parquet wood floors and a central stairwell in a very central and quiet area of the 9th. The two bedrooms face into the quiet courtyard and the street to the sitting room was one-way and surprisingly quiet. It is on the fifth floor with a quaint elevator. Sandra spent her own time sitting with us sharing some of her best tips for the area, and ideas for our children, which was charming. She is a very nice lady and easy to contact. Her apartment could do with a little building and home furnishing maintenance but it suits Sandra's artistic lazzez-faire manner. Our one complaint is with airbnb, the advertised rate increased hugely at payment stage, with cleaning service and then a whopping 12% surcharge on top to us (and a 3% by the vendor) and with no pre-warning, making the overall cost equivalent to a hotel. If you cannot trust the advertised price, then that is not the airbnb ethos, is it?