Stéphanie was a very good host. She went out of her way to meet us off the train, took us to the flat, showed us around, and gave us good advice on what to see, and how to travel to places we wanted to go.

The listing is accurate. The apartment is lovely, and will be even lovelier with the new mattress on the bed in the yellow room(!). It has all the facilities that you could want for cooking. It's surprisingly quiet given the location. Although the neighbours were noisy on one night, it was almost impossible to hear trains, and there was absolutely no street noise.

The neighbourhood isn't upmarket, but you would not know it onece you enter the building. The neighbourhood does have some great advantages: the apartment is really close to Eurostar, and to several metro/RER lines, and there's a great Indian quarter with lots of good value restaurants and shops. We found four vegetarian (yes, in Paris!) South Indian restaurants within a ten minute walk, for example. Also, there are three supermarkets, and a really good boulangerie (with vegan croissant!) within a few minutes walk.