Beautiful apartment in an amazing location - but expect that you will not sleep at all if you stay here.
This stay was truly a Tale of Two Apartments. We loved the apartment and the location - from the antique furniture to the red tile floor to the modern kitchen appliances, we were very excited for our stay. There is a view of the Notre Dame and the Seine from the beautiful windows, and the vibrant Latin Quarter is right in your back yard. The bedroom is quite small and the bed is a narrow full size (not queen), which is snug for two people. But overall, we were quite excited by our choice and looked forward to our stay.
But...then we tried to sleep at night. And there was no sleep to be had for any of us. The first night, we discovered that, because the apartment is built around an enclosed courtyard with stone floors, every sound made in the apartment is echoed and amplified and can be heard loudly throughout the apartment. The night owls arrived home at 2am, and we were awoken then. The dog walkers started at 6am, and so we were up for good then. We thought that was bad, but then the next night was so much worse. The neighbors across the floor decided to have a party, which did not end until the last guests loudly left at 7am. During the whole night, every thump of bad music, every loud conversation, every smoker standing under our window with smoke drifting into our apartment, meant we would not sleep 5 minutes all night. There are warnings in our apartment that guests should not have parties out of respect for the neighbors, but I guess that rule does not apply at all for the residents. All in all, a really unfortunate experience. I truly did want to love this apartment, but the extreme noise and inability for any guest to sleep was just not acceptable. We would not stay in this apartment again or recommend it unless the owner could improve the soundproofing.