The good:
Location is pretty great, easy few minutes walk to the Arc de Triumph and subway. A few decent restaurants near by and a market and pharmacies right next door.
Alex was great with checking us in and meeting us - even with our delayed flight to Paris. We really appreciated that!
Very spacious and awesome little balcony with a couple chairs and little wood table.
Windows do a great job of blocking out the very noisy traffic and construction site on the street.
The bad:
Air conditioning consists of two rolling units - one was broken in the living room. The other unit was in bedroom number one and worked very well. The second bedroom has no air conditioning at all- just a floor fan.
Unfortunate timing for us, a summer heat wave hit Europe. I asked Alex to fix the broken air con and he came by to look at it and said it was working but it wasn’t. I messaged him again so he said he would bring a replacement unit- he didn’t. Meanwhile the temps hit 104F - very dangerous.
The location is on a very busy street and it’s extremely noisy so having the windows open at night to get some kind of relief from the summer heat wasn’t an option for my wife and kids - we just couldn’t sleep with all the noise.
Watch out for the two to three metal screws sticking up out of the wood floor about 3-5mm by the back bedroom. I almost cut my foot open! Alex didn’t even respond to my request to have those fixed.
The bed my son was sleeping on collapsed on one side and I tried to fix it. We saw it was missing some wooden support slats and some were cracked. I messaged Alex about this and he said he would have it fixed but he never did.
Overall it’s a very worn down apartment that feels like it hasn’t been cared for. Lots of details like lights missing light bulbs, exposed wiring, and huge cracks in the walls where it appears the building is sagging. It’s very cheaply furnished.
Alex started out has a great host and ultimately didn’t follow though on his promises including when I asked him to come by the day before we were to leave and he said he would “swing by” but never did.
Out of all my AirBnB travels globally- this is the most disappointing, especially since we spent 9 days here.