This apartment is as advertised and in a perfect location for just about anything you might want to see in Paris. The Metro station is literally a few steps away, as is a grocery store, patisserie, and good restaurants. Valerie is a terrific host - easy to communicate with and very responsive, and she gave us lots of suggestions for places to visit, restaurants to eat at - which we did, and thoroughly enjoyed. She was also very generous, telling us to help ourselves to food in the pantry and leaving coffee and other goodies for us. The only downside of this apartment is that there is no air conditioning and with the windows open, the apartment is very, very noisy as it is in bustling part of the city with loud talking, garbage collection, etc. happening all night and very early in the morning. Valerie brought us 2 small fans to help deal with the heat as soon as we told her we were having problems sleeping but if you are a light sleeper and are traveling in the summer, this is one thing to consider.