It is a Charming 7th floor Paris apartment with Eiffel Tower view - pretty much as described on the Airbnb website. No doubt it is a good value.
I made my choice based on the previous 7 short stay fantastic reviews. My stay was 28 days (Nov 02-30, 2015) with 3 business events in Paris and Italy spreading over a month to attend.
The host’s father showed me the apartment, a very kind, elderly gentleman who brought me medicine when he found me food poisoned and sick. I am very grateful for his care.
However, to be honest, part of the reality missing in previous reviews is as follows;
The bathroom sink was cracked. The bathtub was old, worn out and was blocked. After much effort, it “drained very slowly”. I was told that a plumber could not be found for 3-6 weeks.
The place was a bit dusty, and the toilet bowl wobbles. The kitchen wasn’t quite clean enough for my taste, with cups and dishes in the cupboard having oily patches. dried up food bits and stains still on them.
I decided that I could over look all these things rather than undertake a time consuming last minute panic move to another Airbnb apartment and was prepared to not say a word about any of this.
But then unfortunately, with the November 13 attacks, all my business events got cancelled or postponed. I asked the host through Airbnb if I could shorten my stay by one week. The answer I got was that “the host had decided that a different rate would then apply and an additional sum of €425.00 over the €1,725.00 that I had already paid for the month would be required if I wanted to check out early”.
While a lot of Airbnb hosts open their homes to assist people who needed help after the Paris attacks, I was asked to pay a premium to shorten my stay. It wasn’t very helpful.