Negative:
- Door to the flat: extremely rickety and thin. One of the locks is lose and only held together with tape. When neighbors enter the building or their flats, you can hear everything. We woke up several times at night because it was so loud. It’s not that the neighbors were particularly noisy, there was just no sound insulation at all.
- Door to the bathroom cannot be closed properly, let alone be locked
- In general, the room is rather triste and very small. It is advertised as „cozy“, which was unfortunately not the case at all. It was drearily furnished and did not convey any feeling of coziness.
- For a 4-night stay, two (rather filthy-looking) towels were provided. We had to use those towels for showering, drying our hands, drying our faces after washing up/brushing teeth, wrapping up wet hair after showering, drying dishes when we wanted to use them right away etc. When asking the owner after the first night whether more towels could be provided, we were told that that’s not possible because they did not have any other clean towels. A pretty odd response.
- There are hardly any power outlets available, e.g. for charging your phone or using the hair dryer. If you needed a socket, you had to unplug the router or the bedside lamp
- the bathroom is moldy and the bathroom floor is wet all the time because there is no proper shower mat that absorbs the water.
- people taller than 1,80m cannot shower properly as the shower is too small.
- strange smell in the hall and also when opening the bathroom window. Other people in the building were cooking with their doors open.
Positive:
- Great location right around the metro, in less than 25 minutes you can reach all important spots within Paris
- Host was very responsive
- Great hair dryer