Ah. Jean's place is extremely interesting, and depending on your specific group and needs, it'll either be great or terrible. This is a lengthy review, but I'll go through as much of it as I can. For us, it ended up being a great decision to stay here, despite all of the problems we encountered.

Neighbourhood wise, it is extremely central and in a really interesting part of town (in between Belleville and Republique). Every turn around a corner brought a new adventure. Excellent location wise.

Space wise, the house is ridiculously large. It's not just big by Paris standards, but huge in general. In this sense, it was great to have so much room for our group, and we were able to utilise different areas for different purposes. Although, we wouldn't recommend it for less than six people, because it can be a bit eerie to have that much space to yourself as I did for a couple of days.

Functionality was also so-so. The house has everything that you could ever need, except for maybe a kettle. Although, this isn't to say that everything was working either. It was difficult to get most of the appliances to function, and it was unclear what we could use, and what was off limits. One of the issues that we encountered was the bathroom situation where one of the showers didn't have a curtain (leading to a lot of cleaning up) and the other one didn't function properly.

Communication with Jean and Djamel, his person in Paris was so-so. Some of our questions were answered, some weren't. And at times, we had to wait days before an answer. This couldn't be so problematic if it wasn't for the big issues that we encountered including the lack of heating for ~48 hours, and the extremely patchy Internet. We ended up buying our own portable network to compensate. It would have also been useful, given the size of the space, to know the layout in advance, or what was included in the house.

Cleanliness could have been improved. We hired a cleaner because we were there for an extended period of time. But, upon initial arrival, we did have to reclean things. Given the size of the space, this is understandable but there was dust everywhere. And the laundry still had clothing from the last guests.