This is going to sound like a lot of complaints but really I loved AVIs flat & we were grateful to have it!! I just wanted to give a heads up to others thinking about this Airbnb. Fabulous size amount of space clean & bright in an interesting an lively neighborhood. We always felt safe & happy. There are incredible restaurants on this street!! We ate at 3 of them & YUM. There is a really good veggie fruit guy downstairs & a few stores around for little things you need. (Like toilet paper as there was 1 roll for each apartment & that wasn’t enough for 2 weeks. Also shampoo & conditioner advertised but had a 1/2 full bottle of shampoo/conditioner combo & no soap except a hand soap dispenser at sink. No matter just bought what we needed. Electricity went out one night & it was easy to find breaker & turn back on.
No closets or dressers to put clothes in. No clothing rack or hangers. Just had to keep everything in suitcases. No air conditioning & it was a heat wave in the 90s (it wasn’t advertised to have air though) & there were fans for both apartments. I even bought another little one for the bedroom & no washer or dryer (again not advertised to have that) but 2 weeks ya gotta do Laundry. No instructions left for the closest laundry mat or dry cleaners either. however, just bought woolite & plastic hangers, washed lots of clothes in kitchen sink one night and hung up all over the apartment. Check in wasn’t that great (had to pick up key 1/2 mile away & walk in a heat wave with all our luggage after flying 12 hours to find that we weren’t given the exterior gate code (had to wait outside until someone came & ask them luckily they told us the code when we explained AVI didn’t tell us.) we went in & then we didn’t know how to use magnetic door opener at the building door & it wasn’t explained about these at all. Had to call the “Avi assistant phone number” but they were helpful!Then the apartment was not marked (just said 2nd floor (which is 3rd floor in USA as in France it’s 0 floor, then 1, then 2) info just said 2nd floor & there are 3 doors at that floor. So after trying key on wrong floor & on wrong doors (hope didn’t upset neighbors! It wasn’t my fault it wasn’t clearly specified. I finally Tried a door that after a lot of juggling and fighting with it opened! Yeah. It was brutal start. But once in, all was splendid! Very basic accommodations but clean and roomy & wonderful! It was but the rest was fairly wonderful. Two apartments, both have mini fridges, stove & microwaves. Good showers & toilets. The neighborhood is LOUD. But when the windows were closed it drastically shut out the sound. I was surprised because the sound of people eating & laughing & yelling & fighting & partying, & playing trumpet 🎺 & yelling about buying their fruit & vegetables & drunk people was a cacophony of life! We were glad to enjoy all the sounds of people after covid year it’s nice. However the noise goes strong until about 1:30am & then it’s nice until about 7:00am. The internet was fantastic no problems, the TV looked great but didn’t work & need a 4 digit code to reset/search for channels & I text AVIs team I got no reply so we missed the Euro cup games in 3 nights & we wanted to watch a little French tv but didn’t get to watch anything. There’s so much to do in Paris so we didn’t pursue further but it would have been nice to have the code in the apartment instructions.
All of the neighbors in the building were SO NICE. Beds comfortable enough, new clean, great, I bring my own pillows, so I can’t judge pillows :). Remember this is just a heads up overall we loved AVIs place!!