This apartment is in a fantastic location; there's a Metro stop & a taxi stand within a block, and great bistros, cafes, and retail stores a short walk away as well as a grocery store, which sells great wines, a few blocks away. The apartment was spotless, bright, and comfortable for two people. The windows on either side provide a nice cross-breeze. The kitchen has new appliances and decent counter space. This listing includes air conditioning, but there wasn't any air conditioning in the apartment. While the windows provide a nice cross-breeze, most of the apartment faces the street, so for most of the day, it gets very loud; if you want to get any sleep, you have to close the windows, which makes the apartment get quite hot.
There is no book explaining anything in the apartment. We did find a drawer in the kitchen with appliance manuals, but they were either in French or German and of no help at all. Other reviews rave about Ines and how helpful she is; however, we neither saw nor spoke to her. A neighbor who spoke very little English checked us in but gave us no helpful information. It took several emails with Ines to figure out the espresso machine; we had to figure everything else out (the conduction oven with child locks) on our own. Our main issue is that the sensor light on the spiral staircase only worked on the way up, and it turned off before we reached the apt. On the way down at night, it was dark and dangerous so we had to use our phones to light the way.