The Skinny: Overall, this is a good area to stay in since you are in the center of everything Paris-y about Paris. You are only about 15-20 min from the Louvre and the Opera House by public transit, and everything else is not that far away either.
The Good:
You're in a safe hallway street that's away from the main street and there's good secure door so you can feel safe. The place is cozy, and you definitely need that in cold Paris weather. Everything is included here, just smaller mini sizes: washing machine, kitchen, stove, microwave, etc. (Note: no dryer; just a drying rack that's electric powered).
The Okay:
You're next to an adult entertainment business, which means escorts and questionable girls. If you are here with family, might not be the best for kids. The bathroom had somewhat of a water leakage from the inside of the bath area to the floor of the bathroom, so it was annoying to line the floor with a bunch of towels to prevent the water from leaking out further. Annoying but manageable.
The Not Good:
Wifi: We had major issues with the wifi. The setup for the building is that there's a central modem and wireless box in the upper floor, and the internet box in your room is just an extender. The extender's wireless access point (WAP) has the same name as the main modem. Within our room, our WAP was not connected to the main modem, and we couldn't get it to work for hours. We basically contacted our host Julie and she got a technician to come by to help us out within an hour, so that was nice. The technician also didn't know where the modem was and was confused about the extender in our place because he thought it was the actual modem (like we did). So basically, we worked together to find out that if you have issues with the wifi, SHUT OFF the extender and use the building's wifi. The technician also ended up doing a hard reboot on the extender and got it to work again, but if he wasn't there then we would have needed to connect to the main modem instead of the WAP.
Electricity: This was quite annoying but also manageable. KNOW that if you want to use the laundry machine while you are using other electric-powered things like the water heater, the circuit will blackout. You need to use the washing machine WITHOUT the water heater. We had to make sure the circuit breaker had the water heater shut off when we used our washing machine and vice versa.
Mouse!: On one of our evenings, we heard rustling in the kitchen area around 2am and didn't know what it was. It kept repeating and we turned on the lights, and there was a MOUSE! The mouse was trying to get into our plastic-sealed foods and was unable to get to them. When I saw the mouse, he jumped off the kitchen counter and ran under the washing machine. We were afraid that we may get sick and requested that this get taken care of ASAP. Our host said it wasn't guaranteed and would let the owners know, but we didn't hear any update after that. We spent 2 more nights until our check-out day. We understand that this may be out of the control since a rodent company would need to come in, but we would have appreciated being updated further.
The Awesome:
The team managing this place is very good at responding, so even with these issues (aside from the mouse one), we got what we needed most of the time.