Gilian is a very good host who was very accommodating. He allowed us to check-in early and also check out a little late. The apartment is decorated tastefully and is in an ideal location. However, I would not stay here again unless the circumstances were somewhat different.
The apartment is down an alley and has only one window with no screen on it - although there are bars for security. Because the unit has no AC, you must leave these windows open, which means anyone walking by can look directly into the apartment from the alley. The alley doesn't get too much foot traffic, so perhaps this isn't too big a deal to others, but it was not something we enjoyed. Because there is only one window, the bedroom and apartment were incredibly hot. After walking around the heat of Paris, you really want a cool room to come back to and that was not the case here. Additionally, in the alley there is the back of a bakery so with the apartment window open we were woken up every morning around 6 AM as our window closely aligned with the back window of the bakery. We would hear the workers each morning baking and talking to each other, which woke us up much earlier than we would have liked. Because the apartment is basically one room, you can hear everything that is going on in the bathroom. This caused a little of an embarrassment for some people on this trip, as you could hear EVERYTHING. Unless I was traveling with just my spouse and it was the winter, so I could keep the window closed, I would not stay here again.