We had a fabulous 8-night stay with Mathilde and Jean-Pierre in their beautiful Montmartre apartment. It is a lively, fun neighborhood with wonderful cafes, great, authentic restaurants, more bakeries than you can sample in a week, and plenty going on if you are interested. Mathilde and Jean-Pierre are terrific hosts-they answered all our questions, made suggestions for restaurants, printed out directions for us, gave us advice about places to visit, showed us where to shop, and even shared home-made aperitifs. Bus and metro are close by and it's easy to get all over town from there. We walked to most of the sites and really enjoyed it. The room with its own bath isn't huge, but is big enough with a good size closet-armoire plus small table and chairs and it is separate from the rest of the apartment so you can also feel private. You can lie in bed at night and look out over the rooftops and see the moon through the big windows and feel like you are in a theater setting. There is plenty of hot water and the modern shower is huge compared to most Parisian bathrooms. We really loved sitting on the balcony above the street looking across the rooftops with our wine, cheese, baguette, and cherries picnic. The apartment is on the sixth floor, small elevator goes to fifth floor and the walk to the sixth is quite easy up a wooden stair. I've always stayed close-in on the left bank or near the Louvre, and it was such a treat to stay in a "real Paris" neighborhood. Without a doubt, if the apartment is available we will stay with Mathilde and Jean-Pierre when we next go to Paris for work or holiday. Book it now!