Nicolas is a superhost and I think it's because he rents out a room in his three-room apartment to many travelers every month, in the middle of arrondissement 2, on a quiet street. The room is ok with a large bed, but quite hard as it has no mattress on top, plenty of room for luggage, a couple of small bottles of water, tourist information and a list of shops and restaurants that pops up in the Airbnb chat when you have arrived. Add to that a very small but well-functioning elevator in the house up to Nicola's 3-room apartment on third floor. It started badly because Nicolas opened the gate with a lit cigarette in his mouth and saw my horror. I was going to stay there for six nights and asked if he smoked in the apartment, he said he wouldn't smoke there unless the tenant wanted it.
The reason why I give Nicola's accommodation only 2 points out of 5 (which is NOT approved) is an inhospitable behavior: lack of seating for the person using the kitchen (I would have full access to the kitchen according to the Airbnb ad, but instead of a chair there was a tall wastebasket for household rubbish even though the basket could have fit behind the kitchen door) and that he had promised a friend to stay in the living room outside the kitchen on Sunday night and therefore forbade me to use the kitchen then (the friend never came then so I could use the kitchen also on Sunday). Add to that a rationing of toilet paper in the last days of my stay. I heard him snoring in his bedroom at night so he must have seen that the toilet paper was running out. There was nothing in the Airbnb ad that I should bring toilet paper myself, so I assumed that Nicolas would put in paper even on the last day, which he didn't. I checked out before 11 but didn't see Nicolas again so I put the keys on the table in the living room and closed the front door, which locks without a key.
I tried during my stay in Nicola's home to be discreet and obey all the rules: not to bring home what I had bought, in plastic bags, to keep the door to the kitchen closed (the window was always wide open), to close the window of my room and open the door of the room when I left home as well as never turning on the bathroom fan late in the evening or at night because it would wake Nicolas who was sleeping next to the bathroom. It was clear that the host wanted my money but hardly me as a tenant.