As many other reviewers have stated, nAth is an outstanding host. She humored me my poor French and answered all of my questions about as thoroughly as you can expect with lots of great insights into local shops and restaurants that you wouldn't necessarily find in a tour guide. For those considering staying at Nathalie's place, let me offer some hopefully useful details. Firstly, let me say that I would absolutely stay here again. I would call the place a mature Air BnB in that it had most all of the little amenities you would like (coffee maker, dish washer, washing machine, hair dryer, etc), but I wouldn't describe it as luxurious. If you are expecting the St. Regis hotel, this is not your place. Regarding size, I am forever shocked at Americans' expectations when it comes to housing size, so be aware that this apartment is small by American standards. It is smaller than my dining room, but it does have separate living, dining, kitchen, and sleeping spaces. The spaces are obviously all tightly connected, but everything is there just in a much smaller package than that to which most Americans are accustomed. However, there were a couple of odd misses. For example, there is only one waste basket, and it's in the kitchen. Though there is space for a waste basket in the bathroom, I couldn't find one. There were also no paper towels and just one roll of toilette paper. That said, there were separate televisions in the living room, and the two bedrooms, which was quite unexpected. Another concern was the lack of non-slip mat in the tub. Maybe this is how the Europeans exercise natural selection :-). I seriously thought I was going to wipe out on many occasions, and I've spent my entire life balancing on two thin metal blades as an ice hockey player. Moving beyond the apartment, let me talk about getting to it. Nath very wisely recommended that we take car service from the airport to her apartment, and we very foolishly did not take her suggestion and instead took the train to North station and then walked. There were multiple problems with this. The kiosk lines at the airport to buy train tickets were absurdly long, the train station is a pretty good distance from the apartment, and the elevation of the apartment versus the train station is significant (meaning you have to haul your bags up quite a hill). You also walk through a neighborhood that isn't quite as nice as the immediate area around Sacré Coeur (think wrong side of the tracks). The apartment itself is situated about as close to the basilica as I think you can get. There is a FranPrix grocery store just down the hill (about a 5 minute walk), and, if you love fabrics, you are steps away from the St. Pierre Marché, a mecca for fabrics, trims, and ribbons. In terms of getting into the heart of Paris, we found that taking...