As previous guests have reported, this is a lovely, immaculate, comfortable and well located place to spend a few days in Paris, perfect for a couple. The kitchen is well equipped if you want to prepare your own meals. There is a bar just round the corner and a small shop across the road, but it's not far to walk to La Grande Epicerie, which you must visit at least once if you appreciate good food!!

As it's on a back street and the apartment itself is at the back of the building, there is no traffic noise and in the evenings it is indeed very quiet, so if you're planning to be out and about all day you'll find it very peaceful. A previous guest reported having problem with noise coming from upstairs and we experienced some problems during the day too. Nothing terribly loud, but persistent, it probably sounded worse because there is no other noise to drown it! In our case it was what sounded like knocking/banging and lots of footsteps going up and down almost constantly which was distracting, as we were working during our stay and it disrupted our concentration somewhat. Looking at google maps, we worked out that the apartment is right next to a big cookery school so that would explain why it's mostly noisy during the day but not in the evenings.

Another minor issue is that the apartment is next to the bin storage room for the building, and some neighbours bring their rubbish/recycling down late at night / early in the morning, and slam the door going in and out, so if you're a light sleeper this might wake you up, but nothing that a set of earplugs can't fix.

Communication was good throughout and Josephine turned up 20 minutes early to see us off on check out day and brought us delicious croissants for breakfast which were very much appreciated. The only *minor* criticism we have is that she sent us a message the previous evening asking us to strip off the bed, which we found a bit strange. This is something that we always do anyway, out of courtesy, and is not a big deal; however, considering we paid over 1,000 euros for a 6 day stay, including a 61 euro "cleaning fee", and that we always leave the places we occupy clean and tidy (as confirmed by our own reviews), this small job surely should have been covered by the cleaning fee and not be expected. Indeed, it's the only time we've been asked to do it by any airbnb host.

All in all we would definitely recommend the apartment and would happily return on a future visit, as the positives by far outweighed the negatives!