We are a family of four, two senior parents and two adult children. We reserved Leo’s apartment for five days. We left after one day because the description of the apartment was misleading and the apartment did not meet our needs.
Pros: Great location near L’Opera, Place Vendome. Good for shopping, food, etc. Newly remodeled apartment, very clean. Easy check in with a lock box outside the apartment.
Cons:
-Loft Unique – this is not a loft but a ground floor apartment in the center of the courtyard of an apartment building. As a result and because the Japanese restaurant next door has their storage closet a few feet away from the front of the apartment, to have privacy, we had to close the curtains which meant we couldn’t see out. I am claustrophobic, and it was a disquieting feeling not to be able to open the drapes.
-Air Conditioned – the living room has AC. This was the primary filter I used to search for apartments considering the heat the city experienced. Neither of the bedrooms have AC, they have fans. My son had to sleep on the fold out couch because the bedrooms were too hot to sleep.
-Hot Water – as we had been traveling for a week prior to our arrival, we needed to do laundry. The combination washer/dryer took 4 hours for one load. Hence, we needed to do multiple loads. We did one when we went to bed overnight, then another when we got up. When we tried to shower a few hours later, only two of us could do so and then the hot water stopped. Likely a result of us needing to do laundry. Nonetheless, it required us to stay in the apartment and let the hot water heat up for two hours for the other two of us to shower. Not ideal when we walked to be walking around Paris, not in the apartment.