The apartment is beautiful, and the location is wonderful! It’s less than a ten minute walk to a train station, across the street from a bus line, metro stations within a few blocks. An enormous Monoprix and lovely park within 3 minutes are helpful, plus loads of restaurants and cafes. It’s on a third floor walk up, with another set of stairs to 3/4 of the bedrooms. You will get your exercise! Each bedroom had a fan and ample closets, both of which were very appreciated. Before we arrived the agency was responsive and very accommodating; we were allowed to check in early, which was a blessing after flying halfway around the world. They graciously let us store our bags on departure day, at no cost!
The negatives: the host was half an hour late to meet us at check in, leaving us standing outside with our luggage hoping there hadn't been a miscommunication about check-in time. 0/3 showers worked correctly and multiple requests to address it went ignored. The dryer didn’t work, which we were told at check in (no effort was made to fix it while we were there). 1/6 sinks had hand soap, and we had to purchase the following items at a store or through the host's expensive cleaning kits: hand soap for 5 bathrooms, dish soap, kitchen cloths to dry hands, dishwasher soap, laundry soap, toilet paper, extra garbage bags. If it wasn’t nailed down, it wasn’t provided (who doesn’t have hand soap in the toilet?!). I’ve stayed in 5€/night hostels that were better equipped than this Airbnb, which was extremely frustrating when we paid so much.
I emailed the host our first day about the malfunctioning showers, and was first told it would be fixed, then told someone before we checked in said there was no issue, and finally I was ignored. I don’t like publicly blasting people and have never left a negative Airbnb review, but I gave them four opportunities (three emails and an in-person complaint) to make this right and nothing was done. So if you’re staying here next, it’s good for you to know. Had it come with basic amenities, and had functioning showers, I'd think the apartment was wonderful and give it five stars! But those are such important and basic things that they totally missed, so it's hard to really recommend staying here. Who makes you pay for hand soap?