Unfortunately, we were not able to access the apartment.
Originally we had been told to pick up the keys 4:30- but while we were on the way the host informed us that our check in had been delayed until 6:30 as the cleaning staff had been delayed.
With 2 small children this was less than ideal- but what could we do.
However at 6:45 there was still no key in the monkey locker that we were supposed to collect the key in.
We had asked if we could wait in the apartment while the cleaning was being done but we were told that was not possible,
Instead we were stuck in the streets with 2 crying children waiting for the keys. Well at almost 8pm we were then invited to find a hotel as for some mystery reason the key would not be available for us.
Of course it was the French Open so there no hotels available within our budget - and it was an extremely stressful and awful time.
We only had 48 hours in Paris and the whole trip was ruined because of the total ineptitude and disorganisation of the host.
He did not have a spare key, nor the contact details of the cleaner. Mind boggling to say the least.
Big shame as we had been looking forward to our Paris trip for a long time. Not only did we have to blow our budget on a hotel but we were also unable to find anywhere that could host us for 2 nights- so we wasted a lot of time changing hotels on our second day
Really not the holiday we wanted