My wife and I had a long stay here. It is a decent place to stay in a great location near Canal St. Martin and less than a 10 minute walk to a good metro hub. It is right above one of the the best boulangeries in Paris.
However, I could not recommend this place to just anyone. There are some challenges with the apartment that you should know before booking:
1. It is 6 flights up, and the stairs are old wooden spiral stairs. It’s not easy to get up, especially not with large suitcases.
2. There is VERY limited space. The front of the toilet is only about 6 inches (15cm) from the wall which makes sitting on it a challenge. The front door only opens to about 18 inches (45 cm). Even the bathroom door must be closed before the bed is lowered or it will be trapped open.
3. The shower is poorly designed. Morad had the seals fixed at the beginning of our stay, which was nice. The main problem is that it is raised up and there is nothing stopping water from spilling out onto the floor. We couldn’t use the overhead shower head and instead used the handheld attachment to keep the water pointed away from the rest of the bathroom.
4. (This might be fixed before too long.) The place was in disrepair. The front door handle was missing, and it’s clear the shower has caused problems in the past, as there was warped/damaged flooring, and large sections were cut out of the bottoms of two walls. It felt a little like staying in a half-finished remodeling project.
If you stay here, you should be one person or an intimate couple ready to adapt to all those challenges to benefit from the location. If any of the things I listed sound like deal-breakers, you should probably look elsewhere.