Our family very much enjoyed the two weeks we spent in this apartment. It is a beautifully designed, two story space at the very top of an old Paris building, with lovely rooftop views. The neighborhood is what we Americans would call ‘in transition’—very urban and multicultural, yet with plenty of wonderful restaurants and shoppes to be discovered. We loved having the Monoprix (grocery store) right across the road. And being so close to the Metro stop was a great convenience. However, this is a family’s real home, which the hosts only rent out a few weeks a year. And I get the definite impression that they may not be fully comfortable having strangers stay in their space. Though our host was very communicative and helpful before our arrival, after we departed she sent multiple messages accusing us of breaking things that there is no way we could have broken. If I had it to do over, I would take a detailed inventory upon arrival and communicate every tiny flaw we encountered throughout our stay. (Though who wants to work that hard while on vacation!?) We are independent individuals who have traveled and lived all over the world, and it is not in my nature to continually bother my host with every tiny inconvenience. For example, the coffee maker was temperamental, but made delicious espresso anyways, and the roller blind on one window would not roll up. The host accused us of breaking both of these items after we left. In hindsight I should have been “complaining” all the way through our stay. But I just accepted these quirky flaws as part of the charm of staying in this stylishly updated but very old apartment. The host faulted us for other tiny flaws as well, that I am not certain I would have even noticed in my own home. And which I am certain we did not cause! We have sublet our homes off and on for years, and often have house sitters who stay with our pets when we travel and it never would have occurred to me to accuse my own tenants of such things. I sent a compromise payment ($50) for repair to the fancy coffee machine which the host insisted we damaged. I am sure we did not break the machine, as I used it successfully the morning we departed, but I believe in trying to be a good citizen, wherever I go, and wanted to leave the relationship on good terms. But then after sending that payment, we were accused of breaking something else! All that said, this is a beautiful home in a great old Paris building, with plenty of room for two adults and two children to spread out after a long day of exploring the city. My children enjoyed having their own beautiful rooms, a rarity when we travel. And We enjoyed feeling like true Parisien family for our two weeks in this apartment. But beware that these are not professional hosts...