There are pluses and minuses to this place.
The position is great, very central and it's an interesting and unusual property. Communication with Benjamin was good and he kindly allowed us to check in before the stated time of 17.00. The kitchen and lounge areas are large and well equipped. The parking is a big plus in a city like Bordeaux where parking is scarce and expensive.
The problem is the layout and the bedrooms. There's a courtyard (which is a plus) but you have to cross the courtyard and duck your head down some windy stairs to reach the large bedroom. That might be fine for you but my elderly parents (who are fine with normal stairs) found it difficult.
Through that bedroom, you'll find the only bathroom (although there is an additional toilet upstairs off the kitchen). That leads to the small bedroom. You have to go through the small bedroom, to the other bedroom with the wine cellar feature in it. You can then climb back up into the lounge via a very narrow, difficult spiral staircase in the corner of the bedroom next to the bed. If you're in that room, you either have to go through the small bedroom to go to the toilet in the night or climb the spiral staircase and cross the lounge and kitchen. The other thing is that because of the spiral staircase, that bedroom is, to all intents and purposes, open to the lounge, so if anyone is staying up later than you, noise is an issue, as is light - there's not much privacy. If you're in the small middle room, there is no privacy at all. It is really more of a curtained off hallway than a bedroom. The issue with the large room is that behind the bed behind a curtain, there is a vent to the street. That means that anytime a car or van comes down the road, or bins get moved, it sounds incredibly loud right above your head. No one slept. Although the beds are comfortable, the bedding and pillows could not be more basic.
A single bathroom for six people might work adequately in some properties (although I would say it's pushing it) but it doesn't in this one because of the additional layout/having to duck issues.
We didn't think it would bother us but actually, the absence of windows and light was an additional issue, and I imagine that after a couple of days, it would have become increasingly claustrophobic.
We booked Benjamin's place on the pretty unanimously stellar reviews. So, while I agree that the kitchen, terrace & parking are great, Benjamin seems very nice, and the apartment is very well situated, I regrettably, feel compelled to point out that unusual and interesting can translate to uncomfortable and unusable.