Location, location, location!
We are back after a great shortstay in lovely Paris in the beginning of October. Aria and Herman's apartment has a fantastic location and the size was great for the four of us (me, my husband and two 18 year old girls). The Metro/bus stop (Saint-Michel - Notre Dame) was 80 metres from the apartment and we could also walk many places (Notre Dame, Musée Rodin, Musée d'Orsay). Also buses were really great as you get to see more of Paris than with the Metro. I recommend the app Moovit. The apartment is super convenient for the RER to/from CDG. Christophe who met us with the keys, was really nice and gave us information about god places to go in addition to the useful information that came with the apartment. He was also very nice about us arriving a bit late in the evening. Aria was really responsive and answered all our questions swiftly. She also let us have a late check-out.
The girls had the room with the window to the street. One of them slept like a log, but the other had trouble sleeping because of the noise/music from the bar (s) outside even if the window was locked - I guess this is the price for a really central location:)
The lady neighbour approached me (in a nice way) in the staircase and asked if the girls could walk more quietly in their room as she could hear every step below. I do not know if the floor is really paper thin or if she was overreacting, for the girls were just walking normally. Also we were hardly in the apartment as we were out and about all day so we were a bit surprised about this.
One other small thing - the downstairs bathroom smells a bit mouldy, but it was not a problem for us as we had the upstairs bathrom.
All in all we loved our stay. It beats having two hotel rooms as we could enjoy time together for breakfast and after coming back from long days enjoying Paris.