Bernard is a very accommodating host who refunded a night from our reservation when we were unable to arrive on time due to the French train strike. The apartment has a fully stocked kitchen with spices and condiments, functioning dishwasher and coffee machine, washing machine and dryer, three toilets and three showers, five double beds and a bunch of fold out couches. It is in a fun neighborhood near a street market that is open every day from 9-13, next door to the opera/ballet, and one block from the beaches. However, you can't see the beach from the apartment because there is a tall building in between, and because the only windows in the place are frosted and start at 2 meters off the floor. The building seems to have been quite grand at one time, with 3.4 meter ceilings. But the owner has since divided this apartment into two floors, each of which is too short for the average man, with very steep stairs (ladders, really) up to the upper four rooms--not a good place for anybody with mobility issues. The upstairs ceilings are so low that even a short woman like me (157 cm) can't walk across the upstairs bedrooms without ducking to avoid the 40 cm ceiling joists that stick down into the room. Privacy is quite limited in these rooms as they have sliding windows for walls, covered by curtains. There are also small floor level changes in the entry way that we kept tripping over. The oddest thing about the place is the many "warning notes" from the owner to the tenants saying "don't put anything in the drain, don't take a bath in the shower, don't make any noise, etc." The place is right upstairs from a club that plays music in the late evening, so the directive to be quiet seemed a little unjust. In addition, we had to make our own beds despite paying 240 in linen and cleaning fees. Overall, it is a funky place that worked for our purposes, but had we known about the ceilings, we would have looked for a more normal place at this price.