This is a lovely apartment in an amazing location, close to so many famous sites and good restaurants. The apartment is beautiful, and you do feel like your are in a vintage French apartment. The high ceilings and finishes on the apartment make you feel like royalty. An older apartment may not be for everyone. The floors creak quite a bit and there are signs reminding guests to be quiet and not walk in the apartment after midnight so that neighbors are not disturbed. I was extremely disappointed in the check-in. The airbnb site clearly states that “host will greet you.” We are a family of five who was arriving by train from Barcelona, and a friend was flying into join us from the United States. Her plane was arriving first, and I felt confident that someone would be there to meet her, as she was jet lagged and did not speak or read a word of French. We had been texting with the host who knew that my friend would land at 12:30 and graciously agreed to meet earlier than check-in if necessary. By the time my friend got her bags and a taxi to the apartment it was nearly the 3pm check-in time. No one was there. Instructions for check in with photos were texted at 13:44 (that day, instead of being sent ahead of time), but since my friend did not have access to WiFi yet, the photos did not go through. I was on a train and the photos also did not come through to my account until I reached the apartment and connected to WiFi. There were two doors and two different processes to get into the building, so it wasn’t an easy process. She was told the wrong box to retrieve the key to the apartment and the wrong code to access WiFi. She asked if someone could come help her and was told “no”. If it had been me with my family, it wouldn’t have been so bad because we could have worked with each other to get through the process, but to leave a woman on the street on her own in a foreign country to navigate late and incomplete instructions was inexcusable after stating “host will meet you”. It was stressful and nothing like I have ever experienced with any other airbnb.