This place is TINY, not a 3-bedroom and absolutely not luxury! When you enter the apartment, you would have to drag your luggage to climb a metal spiral staircase to get to the apartment. The room in the main picture, in which the furniture is different, is the only living area. There is no dining room at all, but a counter top with 6 bar stools. The kitchenette, although well stocked, has no dishwasher.
There is absolutely no closet or storage. You would leave your luggages on the floor, which makes walking almost impossible. The “third” bedroom is a 4 ft high space directly carved out on top of the kitchen and is accessed by that metal spiral staircase. My 10-year old daughter couldn’t stand up. It is also super hot there. HVAC is horrible in the entire apartment, but that loft is just uninhabitable.
The two actual bedrooms are divided by cast iron and glass walls. They are not sound proofed. Vision is blocked by the curtains on each side of the “wall”, but unfortunately there is not enough fabric on each side to sufficiently cover their side, so you need to cooperate with the other room to have a complete coverage. Each room has a double bed and narrow walking space around it, and that’s it. The mattress is made of a soft foam, the kind where you sit within a foot on the edge and you would fall off.
The bathroom on the main level is split into a WC and a shower stall. Each is the size of an airplane bathroom. You feel like practicing yoga when using them. The other decent sized bathroom is on the entry level, so you have to climb down the spiral staircase to get to it.
The personal care products they give you are appalling. The bottles show “Molton Brown” on them, but the words are almost fading. The refill they put in must be industrial grade and probably cost $1.99 a gallon. How could you call it “luxury” if you treat people to shampoos worse than what they give you at Motel 6!
The apartment was not ready at 4pm on the day of check in. After roaming the streets of Paris for 6 hours with our luggage after a red eye flight, it was the most dreadful thing to find out when we walked in and the cleaning lady had just started. It wasn’t until 6 pm when she was completely done. Our kids were sleeping on the sofa while she was cleaning the floor.
A few positive things: location is great! It’s close to everything and the Montorgueil village on the next street is absolutely vibrant and charming. The closest subway station “Sentier” though is not on a main line. We ended up using Uber more than the metro. Cleaning lady did a good job. Management team is responsive, courteous and even dropped of Ferrero Rocher for Christmas.
This place has potential, but I think if it was branded as “cozy” or “charming” 2 bedroom and not call it “luxury” and “3 bedroom”, I would not have been so disappointed. We ended up moving to a hotel on the 5th night. For the price we paid per night at this apartment, we were able to get 2 suites at a four star hotel with more room, daily cleaning and yes decent shampoo and lotions!