I was expecting a nice place in a good location, but Noemi and her apartment far exceeded my expectations. The location is perfect. The apartment is on the top story of a very quiet street, but only a block away from one of the liveliest squares in the Latin Quarter, the Place de la Contrescarpe, and a marvelous shopping street, the Rue Mouffetard, lined with chic boutiques, restaurants of every ilk, crepe and gelato boutiques, bars, and souvenir shops to pick up unexpensive gifts to take home. Everything you could need -- groceries, alcohol, metro/RER stations, restaurants galore -- is within easy walking distance, and I couldn't imagine a better, more central left bank location. We mostly used Uber to get around beyond the neighborhood, because my friend had recently had an accident and couldn't go up or down stairs or walk too far, and we never had to wait more than a few minutes to get a car. When I went off on my own, I used the metro, and once the RER, easily and quickly.
The apartment's layout is very good for two couples, or like us, two people who don't want to share sleeping and bath quarters. There are bedroom/bath combinations at either end of it, and in between are the kitchen, dining room, and living room, so you get both privacy sleeping and bathing, as well as a very big common area. The kitchen is the best-equipped I've ever found in an Airbnb rental, with quite a number of food staples as well as the pots, pans, dishes, etc. The living room is lined with books, mostly in English, including at least a half dozen travel books about Paris. My friend, who is a chef, easily cooked us a couple of good meals at home, with delicacies from the nearby butcher shops, fish stores, etc., on the rare occasions we didn't feel like going out. There are views across neighboring buildings all the way to the river; we even were able, tragically, to see Notre Dame cathedral burning about a mile away on that awful night.
Noemi herself is a marvelous hostess. Although she was out of town, we would never have known it except for not having met face to face. She arranged for a friend to wait for us to arrive at the apartment, and he showed us around and explained everything that needed explaining. She was available by phone and text, and never failed to respond quickly, usually almost immediately, to questions that we had. She volunteered information about a wonderful exhibit that was going on during our trip, and advised us to book it ahead of time; it was one of the highlights of the trip, but we wouldn't have been able to go without her unsolicited advice. The night before we left, she dropped a line to ask us if we needed help getting to the airport, and ended up booking a taxi for us herself, with a reliable driver she knows.
You cannot go wrong with this rental.