A very good place to stay in Paris. As advertised, well located in a neighborhood that has everything you'll need, from grocery stores to cafés and restaurants and Metro stations. Also as advertised, it is "cozy," meaning that the rooms are quite small; this can be a slight problem if you have a lot of luggage as there are few places to stow it. The bed (futon) is very comfortable--my wife and I slept like logs every night. On the question of the five flights of stairs, let me add that they are narrow stairs. I didn't think I'd survive trying to wheel a large, 50-lb. suitcase down them after we checked out, so we bought some garbage bags and distributed the contents of the suitcase into them, then brought them down separately, after which we repacked them on the ground floor.