I want to start off by saying the host is really nice and helpful. You can tell he’s a really kind person. However, my stay was far from what I expected. We stayed there for a week during our family trip to Paris for my daughter’s birthday. The information about the place did not match up with the apartment.
When we checked in on Tuesday we were given the wrong address and check-in information. We ended up checking into someone else’s Air BnB that was occupied at the time. We walked in and it was a small studio with all of their stuff in it. When we had booked a two bedroom apartment. It was also storming, raining that day. So, Imagine arriving to the wrong place in the storm and standing outside with 7 suitcases, your family and 2 small children. They were nice enough to come and get us a taxi to take us to the correct spot after we had called to tell them what happened.
Then when we got to the apartment you could tell there was a lot of water damage. The floors were raising and there was mold around the borders of the wall. When we would shower it would flood into the rooms and soak up all of our stuff. I had to reach out to them several times about it. I even had to have the host come and bring more towels so we could soak up the water off the floor. He insisted it was the showers and to turn the shower head to face the wall and not the outside of the shower...because he believed it was spraying out. By the way, the showers have no real doors so the water is constantly pouring out onto the floors. After day 3, we noticed the water was coming from underneath the shower and flooding that way so we sent the host a video and he showed up right away with plumbers. We had to have repairs done while we were staying there. They said the flooding was coming from the place above.
The television did not work, the fold out bed that my kids were supposed to sleep on was broken. We ended up having them just sleep on the couch because the bed kept dipping in or folding on them. And the apartment always felt moist and wet. There was only one window in the entire place that opened so after taking a shower the place was always constantly hot and steamy. It didn’t have good ventilation so it wasn’t comfortable to lay in. Also, the coffee maker did not work. But, giving it the benefit of the doubt I will just say maybe we weren’t using it properly.
I really wanted to love this place since a hotel couldn’t fit my family and I all in one spot. I just felt it wasn’t the best choice and we weren’t really happy there.