This review is not an easy one as I am not a person who generally likes writing overall negative reviews so I will try to be as honest and truthful as possible mentioning both the few positive aspects and also the negative aspects that contributed to the overall negative experience. It’s long but I suggest you read it fully to understand whether this apartment is suitable for you. I will go sequentially. The location is very good - you are really in one of the best parts of Paris just above Place del la Concorde and Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. The area is safe and good for a family - so that is definitely a plus. The check-in was smooth and easy though it’s a self check in so there is no one to explain amenities etc but it was easy. A few words on the apartment which may be a bit of a let down if one has grand expectations. It’s a very small apartment with a total of three rooms (one kitchen/living and two bedrooms). There are two bathrooms but the shower in one of them is absolutely unusable as it’s tiny with a flimsy and dirty aged shower curtain, while the other shower is well sized but very difficult to use without flooding the place as it’s an open shower which leaves it very easy to spill water outside even if one is being extra careful. This means that unless you want to end up flooding the room you have to shower in the corner and wash your younger kids as there is no way they will be a able to wash alone without making a mess. There is one bedroom with an A/C and the other is not air conditioned. The kitchen/living is air conditioned but there was a massive issue here which I will get to shortly. There are only two very tiny windows leading onto the internal courtyard through which we had to pass to get to the apartment which courtyard was full of the garbage skips of the whole apartment complex which was obviously not mentioned in the posting and which is extremely unpleasant especially in the summer heat. Upon arriving on a Sunday afternoon we realized that the place was lacking certain basic things such as a can opener and dish cloths. We messaged the host and we were supplied with these later that same day. We also realized the place was rather superficially cleaned. There was dust everywhere. Carpets were dirty (to the extent that we asked for them to be removed). The shower curtain was absolutely filthy and soiled and there were also some sort of minute ants/ termites in an area of the skirting in the bedroom (which made it also difficult to leave suitcases open in the room). We messaged the host who sent over the cleaner who came within an hour and cleaned the place again in a few minutes (again quite superficially using just a hand held Vacuum cleaner). On removal of carpets we also found an array of dust a smaller objects such as rubber bands, a paper clip and the sort of things which tend to end up under carpets that are seldom removed. After a while we just let the cleaner go and decided to live with it while still asking for the curtain to be replaced - it never was for the whole time we stayed there (6 days). The termites problem also persisted. The WORSE THING TO HAPPEN was a massive problem with the kitchen/living A/C. I must say that air conditioning was what actually made us choose the place since we were there in July and heat waves were indeed possible. Air conditioned apartments are rare and more expensive in Paris - so this is what we paid a premium for. After a short while, the A/C started making a very loud noise, sending vibrations throughout the apartment and literally thumping as though it’s going to blow up. I switched it off and contacted host who was aware of the problem and advise “not to use the kitchen sink” as the problem was related to water flowing into the A/C. Being told not to use a kitchen sink is obviously counter intuitive but we obliged only to realize that water used anywhere seemed to affect this A/C. Two days later (so we had 2 nights without an A/C reaching on of the bedrooms) we were told this “should be fixed” but they still needed a part. We switched it on again only to be faced with the same problem after a short while. I switched it off and complained again to the host. What’s worse is that at around 1AM, with the A/C having been switched off for a couple of hours, the noise started again - this time even more violently to the extent that it seemed as though the A/C was really going to explode and bring the whole apartment block down. We ended up having to leave the apartment and walk out into the middle of the road, deal with disgruntled neighbors who were insulting us and making angered phone calls to the host (?) and the authorities. The host didn’t answer our call but I got through to the apartment manager who said that he would come shortly. He eventually turned up 40 minutes later belittling the whole disruption and trying several things (including switching off electricity supply - which didn’t work either) and ultimately closing some tap of sorts which finally stopped the massive thumping. At that point my wife and kids were petrified and did not want to remain there. The manager just said that there were no more issues and walked off leaving us standing literally in the street. Eventually after waiting a bit longer and realizing that it now did seem safe enough to walk back in, we went back inside with a night completely disrupted and fear of a recurrence. The...