Lydia is very nice and accommodating, and the check-in the process was very easy. The apartment seemed larger in the photos. The living area and kitchen are very decently sized, but the bedrooms are quite small. There is one set of drawers in each room, but really no place to hang anything except from some hooks in the hallway. It would have been so much better if the apartment came with a wardrobe to hang and store clothing. The bathrooms are very small, with tiny sinks; that no matter how hard I tried I could not keep water from spilling over on to the floor, whether I was washing my face, shaving or brushing my teeth.
For us in particular the apartment smelled of smoke. The woman who cares for the apartment tried to mask the smell with a candle prior to our arrival, but that only made it worse. The smell was so evident when entering from the outside into the apartment. The apartment is listed as non-smoking, and I am not sure if the rule was ignored or if was coming from the outside, but it was unpleasant.
All that said, the apartment is in a prime location for strolling the Marais, and also for accessing other areas via metro very easily.