I will start with the one positive thing for this Airbnb. The location was great. It had a lot of cafes and restaurants in close proximity and was about an 8-minute walk to the bus and metro station. The corner bakery was amazing. The baked pastries were delicious. The people there were very nice and friendly, and we stopped by daily to get some breakfast on our way to the city.

Apart from that the overall experience at this Air B&B was really bad. Though this apartment was listed as suitable for 5/6 people, it was unsuitable for more than 4 people. The pictures make the apartment look bright, spacious, neat, clean and tidy. It also showed a second bedroom, this was misleading. The apartment consisted of 1 front room (living room) and a smaller bedroom that just about fit a queen size bed in it. The 'second' bedroom was actually a small overhead loft above this bedroom with a mattress on a base that could serve as an extra space to sleep. You had to access this loft area via a heavy, moveable ladder (which we had issues with and is not shown in the listing photos). There really wasn't a full bathroom in this apartment either. The shower and toilet were in separate locations in this apartment. The bedroom had the small shower that was incorporated into one corner of the room you could barely move in it without your elbows hitting the side walls because it was so tiny. The shower door was made of clear glass so no one could access the bedroom while someone was taking a shower. There was no privacy at all. The only toilet in the house was installed in a storage/broom closet in the living room. This storage closet/bathroom also had a bunch of shelves and other stuff including the homes WIFI router and cleaning supplies in it. The toilet was installed on a platform that was narrow and it was inconvenient to access the toilet due to the height off the ground and limited space due to clutter. The toilet used an ejector pump to pump out the sewage. There was a notice for the guests on the door inside the bathroom by the host to refrain from throwing used toilet paper in the toilet. Used toilet paper had to be disposed of in a tiny trash can. This was extremely gross!
There was a sofa bed in the front room that had large visible stains all over it and was very uncomfortable sleeping on it. When that Sofa bed was opened at night it was very hard to access the toilet from the bedroom without having to crawl over the people sleeping on the sofa bed. The apartment was very dirty and clearly not cleaned prior to us arriving. There was a lot of dust, grime and dried on food on the utensils. There were crumbs in the oven from the prior occupants. There was no kitchen, but a shelving unit that had baskets with utensils in it. On the top of this shelving unit was a hotplate which we did not use as it was not convenient to cook at that height and clearly a fire hazard if attempted to do so. There was a lot of clutter and personal items of the host stored all over the apartment and inside the only linen closet there, which left us living out of our suitcases. In the description of the property, it stated that here were toiletries, there was none. We were fortunate to have brought a little of these items with us, but not enough as you cannot carry full sized shampoo and conditioners on the plane.
We had multiple issues during our stay. Within 15 minutes of arriving at the apartment we notified the host there was an issue with the ladder that was used to access the loft bedroom. It was not firmly secured to the wall and came off. The host said she would check it out the next day but never showed up. After our stay at this Air B&B she has filed a claim stating we damaged the ladder which was not true.
The most gross issue we had was related to the toilet. The freezer was frozen over with ice because this was not defrosted and cleaned after the previous guests. This caused the circuit to trip one night while we were having dinner. We learned that the fridge and the ejector pump for the toilet were on the same breaker. When the circuits tripped it caused the toilet to not flush instead it overflowed into the living room where we had all our luggage. We had to clean up sewage water from the toilet which was pretty disgusting and clearly not our job given how much we paid for this place. When we contacted the host, she decided she wasn't coming down to figure out the issue instead she gave us troubleshooting instructions via text which involved figuring out which breaker had the caused the power outage in the apartment. From past Air B & B experiences the hosts always went out of their way to make sure the guests were comfortable and took care of any minor issues they encountered, that was not the case with this one. After we figured out on our own that the issue was with the fridge, we were instructed to keep the fridge unplugged so it could defrost, which also caused water to drain out of the fridge into the living room. For hours we were constantly mopping up the ground with the towels. We also had to discard some food which we purchased due to the fridge being off for so long per instructions from our host.
Overall, the condition of the apartment was pretty run down, dirty and unmaintained. Even the baseboards that were glued on were coming off the wall. We loved the city of Paris, the attractions, the food and