The apartment was as described, clean, large, and stocked with all the essentials plus TV, washing machine, etc. It was very quiet and in an attractive apartment complex with a good supermarket a few steps away. Sandrine and her husband gave us a warm welcome and were full of good suggestions not only for what to see or where to eat in St Jean, but also with regard to the surrounding countryside. The apartment is close by the river Nivelle, which feeds into the St Jean harbor, and you walk right along it on the Promenade Alfred Pose (no street or cars) for ten or fifteen minutes to get into the center of town. In fact our favorite memory of St Jean was taking this walk each day, because you have the river directly to one side and a long, narrow stretch of public land on the other, with kids and parents in a playground, men playing pétanque (boules), old folks sunning themselves on benches, people walking dogs or exercising on free public ellipticals and other equipment set up outside, skin divers trying on gear outside the Gurekin dive club, and so on. No tourists (except us of course). Just the folks of St Jean de Luz, who seemed a very hardy bunch.