I am Parisian and I grew up locally. The area is great, I always return to the 9th or 10th arrondissement. I now travel alone with my 2 young children (4 and 5 years old) and this area works very well for us coming from London.
The flat is on the ground floor, in the courtyard of a poorly built building. The flat is dark and smells of damp - the flat is equipped with a dehumidifier and kept dry by the heaters but for a week, it is not a very pleasant.
There is no hob extractor fan.
The flat looks just like the photos, except that you can’t see on the photographs that the entrance to the flat is a glazed front door which doesn’t have a blackout curtain or blinds. If you want to sleep in the convertible sofa you will:
- see the light from the courtyard and from the communal corridor coming through that door;
- hear everyone in the building walking to their flats through the courtyard or through the corridor, and closing their doors;
- sleep in the smell of food if you cook there.