The good:
- the place is spacious
The bad:
1. Location: At the time of the booking and till a of today (19.07.2021) the place is advertised as a Montmartre apartment.
It is located in a fairly shabby street 20 minutes away from Montmartre, on the other side of the tracks near Gare du Nord.\
2. Noise levels: The apartment and particularly its basement are located above a commuter train tunnels. It vibrates fairly strongly every 5 minutes or so (from the very early am to the very late pm).
3. Checkin/Check out : Despite arriving well past the check in time and updating our plans in writing 3 days before coming, the key box (located in a Grocery store 10 minutes away) did not open before almost an hour and a few phone calls.
On the top of that, we received several emails inviting us to fill in detail on a 3rd party website and incidentally offering us upsells (such as vastly overpriced taxi rides ). Both things are highly unusual and absolutely unacceptable.
4. General cleanliness: While the surfaces (counters and bathrooms) were generally clean, all the small details (corners, baseboards) were NOT. A general smell of mold emanated from the place. Dishes and silverware were either straight dirty or full of limestone.
We had the unwelcome visit of a mouse in the kitchen.
Not a good look when your main selling point is "professional cleaning".
5. Misc: One pair for a 4 room apartment is not enough and our request to have more was not granted forcing us to constantly organize. Not ok for a place of that price.
While the place has some potential if advertised properly and realistically (e.g. not the least in Montmartre and very noisy) and serious efforts are made regarding check-in processes and deep cleaning, I would not recommend it in its current state and even less for the price we paid for it (slightly above 300 euros a night).