My wife and I stayed for almost four weeks in April. This Airbnb had too many issues during our month-long stay which severely disrupted our vacation. We had to shorten our stay.
PROS
* Location - 15-minute walk to Louvre & easy access to buses
* Good wifi

CONS
1. COMMUNICATION: The biggest problem is communication issues with hosts. Airbnb shows Monica and Gemma as co-hosts. Monica urged & directed me to communicate with Gemma via her cellphone during our stay. We’ve encountered a multitude of problems during our stay and promptly & accurately informed both hosts in real-time. The bottom line is that Gemma informed me later that she is just a local cleaning person with no power to make real decisions. The three-way communication among Monica, Gemma, and myself was very challenging and I wasted a lot of my vacation days. I advise that future guests only communicate with Monica via the Airbnb portal.

2. APARTMENT ISSUES
a) INSUFFICIENT ELECTRICITY SUPPLY: This flat does not support the normal usage of household appliances. By trial and error, I realized that I could not use more than one of these 4 appliances at the same time: washer, 4 cooktop, towel heater, portable heater. I had to prioritize and arrange the usage of appliances each day while on vacation. After I experience some outages, the hosts did inform me that washer and dishwasher would trigger an outage. It would have been better to have been informed of the extent of the limitations at check-in time and provided instructions on how to reset the circuit breakers.
b) GENERAL ISSUES :
1) The ceiling is VERY low. I am 5’9”. The ceilings were low but I didn’t have to bend and worry about hitting the ceiling. But I definitely had to bend my neck for all the door frames. I ended up banging my head several times. Also, I only had a few inches of clearance when taking a shower.
2) The front door entry is in the middle of the staircase. There is no flat landing space. One must be mindful when stepping in & out of the apartment since the door ledge connects directly to the staircase steps.
3) The kitchen & bathroom are separated by a glass block window that is visible. This means that you can see someone using the toilet while cooking.
4) There is a big stained glass window in the living room. The living room is visible to outside pedestrians during the evening. There are no window covers.
5) The bathroom is overdue for a maintenance job. Paints are flaking off. Mildews & fungal growth between tiles. The shower curtain needs replacement.
6) It is very difficult to ventilate & circulate air in the flat.
c) PLUMBING
1) A concerned third-party resident of the building who was out of the country called the local plumber and me about a leak in the lobby which may be originating from my unit. I had to coordinate & monitor progress during the plumber’s initial visit. The hosts never called or show up. The plumber identified the leak with the water heater and suspected that it would need to be replaced and placed a bucket to catch the drip leak. I was asked to empty out the bucket as needed. The leakage issue appeared under control and I was able to verify that water was drying by the lobby after a few days. Since the hosts never showed up, I kept them informed.
2) Scheduling of the water heater replacement became a huge issue. I expressed to the hosts that I would prefer to have the water heater replaced after check-out. I expressed to the hosts that I did not want to be present when the plumbers did the work (due to the bad odor coming from the water heater closet). I was also very uncomfortable just leaving my belongings in the apartment while the plumbers did their work. Also, rescheduling the installation dates required me to be around to let the plumbers in the apartment. The hosts never came to the apartment to meet the plumber and allow access. The hosts did not consider interruption to my vacation when scheduling the plumber visits.
3) After the plumber replaced the water heater, the toilet started acting up. The toilet tank would not stop filling and the water ran constantly. Again, I informed the hosts promptly. The hosts nor the plumber came to fix this.
4) Building water interruption. The final straw for my stay was a notice from the building that water would be off my last two and half days of my stay from 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm. Again, the hosts did not notify me of this scheduled event. I happened to see a note in the lobby and asked the hosts. The hosts didn’t seem to care about the ongoing disturbance to my holiday. I wanted to shorten my stay and check out early. The host refused to provide a prorated refund. I had to escalate to Airbnb support.
Noise items to note:
1) The apartment is on a small but very busy street with lots of cars, buses & pedestrians. Since the apartment is on the first floor, the street noise is very loud & audible.
2) The apartment sits directly on top of a very popular cafe with long lines of people. It gets very noisy.
Questionable conduct by hosts :
1) Gemma gave out my phone number to a third-party resident without asking me or telling me afterward.
2) In the middle of our stay, Monica sent a change request to our stay and asked me to move out the next day. I ended up escalating to Airbnb support which took a while and they walked me through my options. This created a lot of anxiety as this had never happened to me before. I wasn’t sure if I was getting evicted the next morning in a foreign country.