My boyfriend and I are from Brooklyn, New York, and fans of Brooklyn will love this location. It's a short walk from Canal St.-Martin, the true Brooklyn of Paris, filled with charming bars, multiethnic restaurants, and artsy little shops. It's also a short walk from Le Marais (not our favorite neighborhood, but there are some great winding streets for high-end shopping and dining, as well as the fabulous Picasso Museum). La Republique, the nearest metro, is easy to access, and the square on which it's located features a fabulous crepe stand.

The apartment itself is spacious and charming, with windows that open onto the street. It's a lofted bed, which we were fine with, and the kitchen has plenty of space for brewing coffee or preparing a light breakfast. There are only two downsides to this place: 1) The shower, which has insufficient drainage and floods the entire bathroom floor every time you use it. On several occasions, my clothes got sopping wet, and the bathroom was always wet and soggy. 2) The washer/dryer, while a great convenience, took 4 hours to do our clothes. I have no idea why, but during that time it was locked and we could not get our clothes out of the machine. They emerged shrunken and badly wrinkled. So I would not recommend using it. Other than that, we highly recommend the experience!