We enjoyed our 21-day stay in the apartment. It is spacious and attractive and comfortable, with everything you could need and lots of room to spread out and make yourself at home.
If you plan on accessing wifi from the living room or dining room, just know that you’ll need to slide the modem (which is down the hall in the bedroom) into the bedroom doorway. Otherwise, the stone walls are so thick that the signal doesn’t reach the front of the apartment. Once you do this, you’ll have a speedy connection.
The apartment faces north and is on the second (French first) floor, making it a bit darker than the photos suggest. However, I appreciated the abundance of lights and lamps that helped make the space quite cozy.
Light sleepers, some earplugs will help you get a blissful sleep without being awakened by the neighbor who seems intent on throwing his bottles into the recycling bin at 6am. (As another reviewer mentioned, the bedroom faces the courtyard, where the garbage and recycling bins are located.) The bed is extraordinarily comfortable, with quality linens and puffy pillows.
The kitchen is well equipped. This being an old building with old plumbing, at least once a day, the kitchen sink would back up while I was running water. The presence of a plunger under the sink tells me this is a known problem. One or two plunges and we were good to go. I suspect that someone once put food down the drain (there’s a garbage disposal that appears non-functional) because there’s also a slight noticeable odor.
The location can’t be beat. It’s on a quiet side street that’s still super close to Luxembourg Gardens, Port Royal, and Boulevard Montparnasse. In terms of provisions, you’ve got a mini grocer at one end of the street and superb boulangerie at the other end, with even more food options a few blocks away. As a nice touch, the apartment even comes with a cart for carrying any heavy groceries back home.