First I want to say I have stayed at many Air B and Bs so I do know how to compare. Marie’s apartment was spotless and all the linens and bedding looked to be brand new. She has it listed as a double bed but in fact it’s a queen size bed, and extremely comfortable. There is a very well equipped kitchen with all you need to cook a gourmet meal after visiting the open air market on Richard Lenoir on Thursdays and Sundays. Plenty of glassware and dishes and tons of white fluffy towels and even lovely white terry bathrobes and slippers, shampoo and body cream! Marie let us in early as our flight from LA got in at 9 am. There were bottles of water and chocolates waiting for us. The rooms are spacious with plenty of closet space and loads of hangars. These charming old buildings invariably have unreliable, tiny lifts. I can’t remember how many times I have been stuck in the elevators in Paris. Now I stay on the first or second floor so as not to have that problem of dragging bags up 6 flights if the lift is out. Marie’s first floor flat fit our needs perfectly. My husband and I stayed a month here over Christmas and will do it again next year. The area is a gem! You are surrounded by great restaurants on every corner, a great bakery across the street and the Place Des Vosges around the corner. You have a metro stop, Chemin-Vert at the corner and the Place de la Bastille with all 4 metros, which cross Paris, two blocks away. Ave Beaumarchais is a main thoroughfare but Marie’s apartment with its high ceilings and double glazed windows is on a courtyard and you never hear a thing. I can’t say enough good things about this apartment, it has been a terrific experience which we hope to repeat soon. Thank you Marie!