My husband and I loved our 18 day stay at "Marais Luxe 1 Br" hosted by Paolo Carani. It was truly a great neighborhood and the 360 degree picture on the AIRB&B website does not do the street justice since it was obviously photgraphed when everything was shut down (which isn't often)! It is quaint, it has restaurants, bars, shops, a Boulangerie right across the street, a grocery store around the corner, a laundramat right next to that. The shops were amazing in the neighborhood...from second hand clothing stores (which were VERY popular) to Karl Lagerfeld, 4 stores away, and UGGS, right across from that. The neighborhood is gay, Jewish, family oriented and we loved it...and we're seniors.

Nice to have only one flight of stairs to go up and we enjoyed watching the restaurants and bars and the people passing by, as well as the garbage trucks trying to maneuver around the corner every morning. Streets are VERY clean and we always felt safe.

The apartment was exactly as pictured. Small, interesting, but very livable and it was nice to have more than a studio.

One caution, because it is such a popular neighborhood, there was noise, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. But we had been forewarned by other reviews and took earplug precautions. It was fine. Definitely noise from the garbage trucks and delivery trucks at 7:30 in the morning but we are early risers and we found it was interesting to watch.

Paolo was great! We had no problems with the apartment but we had some questions from time to time and if he didn't answer his phone right away (in a very friendly manner), he called us back immediately. One time he was in London but it was nice to get that very fast service from him. He made arrangements to get a taxi for our return home and the taxi was there exactly on time.

All in all, it was the time of our lives and a very special holiday...Paris for 18 days following a river cruise through Provence and Burgandy.

What could be better? Thank you, Paolo, for your very important part.