I stayed in Frederik’s apartment for just over a month and it was lovely.
The apartment itself is perfectly located. It’s less than a five minute walk from the beautiful Sacre Couer, as well as being less than a ten minute walk to the Abbesses (line 12) and Anvers (line 2) metro stations.
It has everything you could need for one or two people - a fully fitted kitchen with a small countertop oven, two hobs, a fridge and all the plates, cups and utensils you could need. The sofa bed is much more spacious and comfortable than I expected - it was great.
If you’re staying for a longer period of time like me, you don’t need to worry about there not being a washing machine, as there is a self service laundrette on the same road that’s open from morning until night. This is affordable to use at €3.90 a wash.
Frederik visited at the start of my trip to introduce himself, bringing a print out with plenty of useful advice, a bottle of wine and some crisps, which was really kind. He also bought and dropped off a fan during my stay because the weather was particularly hot - another kind and thoughtful gesture, which I really appreciated.
The only problems I had with my stay tended to be with hostnfly who manage the apartment during the stay. They are great and responsive as long as there isn’t an issue, but as soon as an issue arises they seem to disappear. You collect the keys from a lockbox in a convenience store, but hostnfly provided me with a wrong code. I waited an hour before getting any response which was a bit awkward when you’re stood with a lot of luggage in a small store. Luckily I didn’t have plans that afternoon so it wasn’t a major problem, but could be problematic if you had somewhere to be.
The second issue was at the start of my stay too - the shower flooded (flooding both the bathroom and out into the main room of the apartment) and hostnfly didn’t get back to me until the following day, even though I let them know that the apartment was flooded and I didn’t have enough towels to dry it all up. They only replied after I messaged saying that I’d resolved the situation myself, which involved pulling a LOT of someone else’s hair out of the shower drain. I asked them if they could provide more towels seeing as I’d used the two provided cleaning up the flood and was told no, which meant I spent a few hours in the laundrette washing and drying towels so I would have something to dry myself with the next day. Again, I was here for over a month so it wasn’t the end of the world, but it could have easily ruined a shorter trip.
Overall, this is a brilliant place to stay and I would definitely stay here again. Other than the two issues above in the first couple of days, it was perfect.