The location of this apartment is excellent. There is a grocer with wonderful variety right below your apartment, many restaurants and a lovely park with a great playground, trees, green space and duck pond across the street. You are walking distance to everything (Louvre, Notre Dam) and in the heart of Le Marais. Loved the location. But, the apartment was not clean. The walls are stained, the base boards covered in thick dust and grime. We had to clean the place before we could relax and begin our vacation. A quick wash of kitchen handles turned the cloth a dark brown. We easily wiped stains from the kitchen table and tv stand which indicate that they weren’t wiped before we arrived. The washing machine is on its last legs and is unusually loud so use it early (5pm cycle ends around 8) in order not to disturb the neighbours. The microwave didn’t work for us but the stove and dishwasher did. The whole place is just grimy and smelled stale. We loved that we could open all the windows and have a lovely breeze fill the apartment. The view out the front windows is very nice. The street is very noisy, but we like the sound of a city so we didn’t mind that at all. We would not stay in this apartment again.