Dirty, smelly, expensive, broken amenities, spiders… cancelled after one night and found a hotel.
Maison au coeur du Village d'Auteuil was terrible!
I thought about canceling in advance, and I should have. I sent the host a picture of my family and a greeting several weeks in advance and did not hear back until the day before check-in, when the host asked what time we would arrive. The host wasn’t required to respond, of course, but it was indicative of the effort the host puts into being a host. The place had 3 good reviews. Later, when I looked at the host’s reviews (look at the host’s reviews!), I saw more reviews from longer ago and many were negative. Also, the host’s suggestive profile picture should have been a red flag.
The person who greeted us at the place (not the owner), was fine.
The house was dirty, the furniture was old and worn out. The bath tub was dirty and had a spider in it (I found 2 more spiders in the house). We rinsed the tub out and filled it up. When we went to drain some water, more dirt came out of the drain. The cold water didn’t work in the tub.
The dryer was full of wet linens when we arrived, too much for the dryer, so we had to deal with them before we could wash (but we left before doing our own laundry).
The oven didn’t work, the filtered water/ice dispenser on the fridge didn’t work, many outlets didn’t work. One of the bedrooms had a sour kind of smell when we arrived.
This place is not ready to rent… especially for that price. It shouldn’t be on Airbnb at all in its condition.
Positives: great neighborhood, spacious, air conditioning, nice little pizzeria right outside the door, building is nice… too bad the interior is not maintained.
Don’t stay here! You will regret it like me! I hope Airbnb removes the listing. I would be ashamed to pass off such a place on other people.
I spent a small fortune taking my family to France, and the experience with Maison au coeur du Village d'Auteuil cost us almost an entire day of our trip. I spent the evening on the phone with Airbnb trying to figure out what to do and where to go. The next morning I had to rent a new place, pack up the whole family, get an Uber across town, and drop off our bags at the new hotel, even though we couldn't check in for awhile. It was supposed to be a morning when we could sleep in and rest up in our big fancy house in Paris, but that's not what we got. Also, we had just gone to the store and had to leave some groceries behind when hauling all of our stuff across town. When we got a hotel, we lost out on our plans to have a kitchen, washer and dryer, and living room area (we wound up in two small adjoining hotel rooms). It really put a damper on part of our vacation.