The apartment is excellently situation on an exceptionally attractive pedestrian shopping street that proves popular with the locals during the day but also quiet as the apartment it is not facing onto the road but rather an internal couryard and also there is no traffic allowed on the street so there is not even distant noise. It is just 5 minutes walk from Villiers metro stop .

Galenya, who is an experienced property manager, gave a thorough, professional, orientation on arrival. The apartment was as advertised with one large living/diningroom which has two sofas which fold down into standard size double beds which our children had no problem sleeping in. The double bedroom is compact with a comfortable double bed and sufficient available wardrobe space. The kitchen is small but perfectly adequate for the traveller, containing all the accoutrements you would need. We were out most of the time so didn't use it that much. There is a washer/dryer in the kitchen which came in handy.

On arrival, and before, Galenya emphasised that it would be very important that we would be quiet in the stairs/hallways and not too loud when we were in the apartment as there were long term residents in the building and it had wooden floors and wooden stairs. This is very understandable in a building of this nature. With young children this could be problematic but we had a family chat in advance and thankfully the kids were very good. No harm for them to exercise some control on their volume from time to time!

On departure, due to late arrival of incoming guests, Galenya let us keep our baggage at the apartment which was really helpful as we were flying out later in the day and we had quite a bit of luggage with us as we had been travelling for a number of weeks.

On the day of leaving we had to print off boarding passes so Galenya gave the address of a local Internet Cafe at 80 Rue de Rome less than 10 minutes away, which was well set up to print the passes.

All in all it was an excellent base for us to get ourselves going in the morning and rest our heads at night.