Furnished apartment - 59m² - 2 bedrooms - Porte Maillot / Palais des Congrès - Paris

It was a great one year for us. The flat is very tastefully decorated, the wifi is great, and it is newly refurbished. It also has a lot of storage space which is a godsend in Paris. The location is amazing. Overall we had a very comfortable one year living in it That said we had some gripes: 1) Despite being newly refurbished, the flat gets very cold in the winters due to insufficient insulation and space around the doors and window frames. Also, the flat is on top of a restaurant kitchen which means that often smells from the restaurant enter the flat (even with the windows closed). The existence of the restaurant means that the bins are full of food waste, which leads to a lot of flies in the courtyard in the summer (which enter your flat if you open a window). 2) Also, the flat does not come with an airconditioner and so the bedrooms get very hot in the summer (again partly due to the hot restaurant kitchen being underneath), and you cant really open most of the windows unless you want to be living with a swarm of flies 3) The hot water tank is enough for one person to shower, but if a second person wants to shower after you then they need to wait about 30-60 mins for the water to heat up 4) The various gaps around the windows and doors, and the existence of the fireplace mean that dust gets into the apartment very easily. We bought a robot vacuum cleaner and used to vacuum the floor every two days otherwise your socks or feet would go black from walking on the floor 5) In winter months the kitchen pendant lights have a strange habit of turning themselves off and back on again, after you've had them on for about 10 mins. Paris attitude sent an electrician to fix this, but he couldnt figure it out.