We, a family of two couples and a 4 year old daughter, stayed in the North room for 5 nights during the last week of Aug 2013. We cannot express how good our experience was. This is the first time we were staying in a shared apartment like this. So we really did not know what to expect. Florence patiently answered all our queries prior to our booking and arrival. That helped.

There is free parking on the streets. You have to watch for the signs carefully. Some streets have NO PARKING on Mon & Fri between 11 AM and 1:30 PM (city needs this time to clean the spots I believe). In some streets, the exception is for Tue & Thu. So depending on the day, you basically have to move your vehicle from one street to another. Florence's daughter Clotaire (who was here on vacation, luckily during our trip) was kind enough to come down with me to show me these signs and explained the concept and helped me with the luggages. She even moved my vehicle on a Tuesday morning to a different street, while we were out visiting the city.

On one side of the street, the (express) subway lines 2 and 3 are just one block away. The subway lines A, B, C are one block away as well on the other side of the street. It is only 5 to 7 mins walk - even with our daughter - to the subway stations. This was so convenient, so we ended up buying a weekly metropass and came back everyday to the apartment for lunch and a quick nap / refreshing. It only takes 15 to 20 mins to downtown. There are also buses M2, M3, M4 stopping just in front of the apartment building.

It was so nice that we were able to cook and eat as and when we wanted to in their apartment, and use their fridge to store our stuff like milk and fruits. Florence's two daughters played with our daughter all the time and even made pancakes for her one day. More than visiting the city, our daughter was excited going back to the apartment to play with her new 'friends'. We enjoyed our stay. Of course, like everyone else has mentioned, the room was quiet and clean. We would definitely go back here or recommend our friends to stay here. A big thanks to my wife's friend Olivia for referring us to Florence's place.