I wanted to love this place but it fell short. The pros of it: it is super clean, shower has great water pressure and it is close to Eiffel Tower and Metro/trains. The cons of it: The beds are ridiculous. The upstairs bed is so hard, it is almost unsleepable. The pullout couch is fine for one person if they stay on one cushion. The yellow chair/bed is only good for a toddler. The other pullout bed is really firm as well. The communication with Eric was interesting. It's a bunch of "auto" emails where the same question is asked multiple times, even after you gave an answer... as well as multiple statements about leaving your shoes at the door and other rules. He was very thorough though with the operation of things in the apartment in the emails (ie the washing machine, air conditioning, etc). We asked for an early check-in if possible. He never answered. Our flight arrived in Paris at 8:00 am and check-in was at 3:00 pm. He said that his wife would be meeting us to let us in the house, but when we got there (6 minutes early and no one would open the door until after 3:00), it was a random man that never let us know who he was, why Fany wasn't there and appeared to know little about the apartment as he fumbled to find light switches. There were no recommendations and he wasn't really that friendly. It would have been better to just have no one meet us. The apartment does not have luggage storage so you do need to use a luggage storage facility; which cost us $60 more and the added stress of pushing our luggage on a 15 minute walk through the city in the rain. The location is close to everything. Too close. The apartment is on a major road so when you open the door, you are greeted by everyone in the city. By the time we received the address for the apartment, it was too late to cancel. We did have what appeared to be homeless people sitting outside our door. You are not in a neighborhood, you are right on a busy street. When people say the stairway is tight, they are not kidding. I couldn't get my luggage up it. A carry-on would be ok, but large luggage is not easy to get up the stairs. Therefore, we had our luggage lying around the living room because there really is no place to put it downstairs. If you have any issue with stairs or small children, I would forgo this apartment. The apartment also has no windows that can be opened or looked through. Because it is on a major road, the windows are all frosted which leads to a very claustrophobic feel. There is a door lock system that requires an app. Unfortunately, the first time we tried to use it, our account had not been validated by Eric so we were stuck in the road with no way to get in.
Multiple other little things were wrong (like broken knives, etc) but these were the major issues. We wouldn't stay here again.