The location could not have been better. Very quiet neighborhood. The apartment looked into the courtyard so no street noise could be heard making sleep much easier. Easy walking distance to the metro which can take you to most of the places you would want to see in Paris and to Place des Vosges.

There were several problems however.

First and most important the apartment was in bad condition when we arrived. When we arrived the one of the previous guests was outside waiting for his taxi and had not returned the key yet and let us in. No one had showed up to clean the apartment and there was a bad sewer smell in the apartment. The previous guest had rolled up the carpet saying that it was so dirty that they did not want to walk on it. The host was out of town but I emailed him and he responded immediately. There had been a miscommunication between the host and the cleaning person. The cleaning person, a very nice man, showed up about 45 minutes later and did clean the place. We left the carpet rolled up and discovered that the smell was not coming from the bathroom but from outside.

Second, there was some difficulty in our communications with the host. We made the reservation about a month prior to the date of the reservation. The host had asked that we let him know when we would be arriving by train from the Champagne region. When we confirmed our train reservations I sent him and email two weeks before the date. He emailed me several days before and said that he needed to know when we would be arriving. I sent him and email stating that we had advised him several days before and he did not acknowledge having ever received it.

Finally, the sofa bed was pretty uncomfortable. It made for a tough nights sleep.

All in all, we loved the location but the accommodations were just adequate at best.