Exquisite Home for 4 in the Paris Montmartre Sky

First, the location near métro and bus was awesome! There were several great restaurants (Le Relais de la Butte and Aux Trois Petits Cochons) in close walking distance. Also, down the street that comes off the front of the square and a short left is a great bakery (Coquelicot). We walked to the Louvre and other sites the first few days but we like to walk. It was a trek!

I am going to list some things that were new or different to us as Americans. This is in no way a complaint, just pointing them out so other non-European guests will be aware.

The instructions on how to open the key safe and front door of the apartment could be updated. They're updated on the copy inside the apartment, but that doesn't help when you are trying to get in. The key safe was a little frustrating as I couldn't close it without removing the door, putting the code in again, and holding the switch down while I put it back on. This led to some cursing on both ends of my trip. Note the key safe is five flights of stairs up.

Once you get the key, getting in the apartment building is easy until you get to the door of the apartment itself. You have to turn the lock until you hear it click then hold the key in and turn it another quarter turn to get the deadbolt undone.

The toilet is in a small closet to the right of the door. The toilet requires you to hold the handle down longer than you normally would. We had trouble finding the WC at first and panicked thinking we picked a place without a bathroom. There is no sink in there, so we used the one in the kitchen as it was closest. There's no place to put soap there, so I had to put it on the counter. We used a hand towel from the bathroom. No dish towels or dishcloths were in the apartment.

The salle de bain has no curtain or door between it and the bedroom and no curtains on the shower. We worked around this by closing the doors to the bedroom and the shades to the windows when we were showering. The beds were very comfortable. I slept well for the most part except for some jet lag, especially if I cracked one of the windows for air flow.

The apartment is on the sixth floor (starting at zero). The elevator holds three people or three suitcases. So with four of us we just took the steps down. My energetic teen would run upstairs.

Oddities (for us) aside, I liked the feeling of an authentic Paris life while we were there. We really didn't spend a lot of time there other than getting ready and sleeping.