We really enjoyed our stay at Catherine's place. The apartment was charming and in an unbelievably good location, near transit hubs, tons of restaurants and museums. Catherine gave us several neighborhood recommendations that were helpful and was super easy to communicated with via WhatsApp. The laundry machine broke during our stay and Catherine came over to the apartment to check it out almost immediately and then found us a place nearby to do laundry while waiting for it to be repaired. Everything was clean and well cared for, this is her home, not one of those IKEA apartments kept just for airbnb, and it felt like our little home in Paris too. The only things I would give other travelers a heads up on: it is a small flat, two of us were comfortable but I think more people and more luggage might feel a little tight. Secondly, weekend nights did get a little lively outside (ended reasonably early though) - however - I actually felt like this was a really enchanting feature of the flat, the sounds of spirited French voices and clinking glasses floating in the open window gave us a real sense of place- the reason we travel with airbnb as opposed to staying in sterile hotel.