The apartment is centrally located with nearby shops, a market, playgrounds and metro stops. Inside the apartment is spacious by Paris standards and the furniture was adequate for our group of two couples, 3 children, and one grandparent. The nightly rate seemed high but the amount of space made up for it.
A few notes:
- Be prepared for additional fees. A fee for a baby bed is normal but being double charged for the cleaning fee, once through Airbnb, then again in person was very suspect. There’s a fee for checking in early, a fee for checking out late etc.
- If you’re looking for an experience with a host who lives in Paris, this is not that type of apartment. It is run by a company which is evident while staying there. It does have decent documentation about the apartment and area.
- The kitchen was not well equipped, one hand towel for a large group doesn’t cut it, one loo roll per toilet for 5 adults and three kids, not kitchen roll etc. If you plan to use the kitchen be prepared to come with or buy items you’d need to cook and clean with.
- The apartment is not kid friendly though looking at the listing it doesn’t state that it is. The sound proofing is terrible - you hear shouting and stomping from people above, and every time somebody walks up the stairs. Plus the the light in the hallway is movement activated and overly sensitive, so was constantly annoying us.
- There is no way to buzz people in to the apartment, nor a code they can use, so you have to go down three flights of stairs to let people in. Plus the tiny lift (normal by Parisian standards) was also broken on our final day which meant carrying down several narrow flights of stairs luggage, pushchairs etc.