Overall I can really recommend staying at Auriane's place. It is beautifully furnished, and the view on the Paris roofs is indeed amazing.
- The pictures do not show it, but there's a huge full body mirror in the hallway that's very convenient
- The hallway and bathroom also have windows on the ceiling, making it a source of natural light.
- The bathtub is bigger than average, it's very comfortable to take a bath and showering too, there's a big shower head.
- The couch is very cozy, lots of cushions
- Big kitchen area by the window, making it very delightful to cook and very easy to ventilate.
- Super confortable mattress and blanket!! The sheets were also high-quality coton, you could feel the quality each night.
- Great stereo sound system
Small things one should be mindful of are:
- I stayed a month, so 6 floors to climb everyday is no joke. It's harder when you have groceries and all, I could never buy a lot.
- As a parisian apartment with beautiful large windows, it also means that the apartment cools down very fast. I'm quite sensitive to the cold.
- Small dishwasher that wasn't very powerful, I hand-washed during my stay. (but I admit that I did not ask for help so I'm not sure if I was using it properly)
- As another review said, there's indeed not a lot of storing space: only 2 compartments in the hallway. I didn't have many things so it was fine for me, but if you don't pack light, be mindful to ask for more space ahead of your stay. There also wasn't a dedicated space for guests to store food on the shelves.
- 3/4 a bath filled and no more hot water for 2hours, but I didn't ask about it because I don't really take baths anyway.
- There's construction work in the building and on the street, daily drilling noise.
I only had one communication problem with the host.
I was not aware that I needed to make a full cleaning of the apartment, that there would be no professional cleaning after me (which I think should be mandatory with a pandemic).
So I just did something basic, wiped the tables, surfaces, kitchen and bathroom sinks, vacuumed the floors.
Moreover, I had left a few water stains on her brut vintage wood table.
So a week later at 22:00, I receive a claim of 200€ from Auriane about this, for the cleaning and a full polishing and varnishing of the table.
I understand her position, but the tone was right away blameful. Auriane centred the talk around how I lack common respect and it was very sarcastic. I tried to apologise and explain that "full cleaning of the apartment" was nowhere on the check-out to-do list (which contained "take out trash" and "undo the bed", and I asked for this list explicitly like "what do you want me to do before leaving?"). Otherwise I would have done it, and it was mainly a misunderstanding.
Same about the table, it was a one time mistake and if this table needed such attention, she should have put a disclaimer, and some coasters. Most importantly, the flat was not left disgusting, it was just normal. Not professional clean, but normal. She sent me a photo of a stain on a corner of the wall being apparently "vomit" and I don't know how I can even defend myself.
So about the 200€, I felt that a polishing and varnishing of that table was more of an upgrade rather than a fix, since the table was definitely neither polished or varnished before, for it to create such stains from water.
Then, I saw that she left a bad review on my profile even before she sent me the 200€ claim and told me all this, so it just showed me how little respect she had for me: she didn't even wait for my response and try to settle things like adults before defaming publicly.