2/10 Terrible
Christopher T.
Apr 18, 2025
Terrible Rental: building under full renovation and construction (April 2025)
me and a group of 4 friends rented this property in October 2024 for a stay March 27 to April 3, 2025. We rented the property for the size, the location (which is great) and for the amazing rooftop patio with the sweeping views of paris. I commuicated with this owner for 6 months prior to our stay and never, NOT ONCE, did he mention that the building was going to be under contruction and full restoration.We arrived excited on March 27th only to see that the ENTIRE building was covered in scaffolding and undergoing restoration. We arrived inside the apartment to find that all windows (except for the glass door to the updstairs deck) was covered in painters paper and taped shut--allowing hardly any natural light to come in. Worse the apartment reeked of paint and turpintine and you couldn't even open the windows to let in natural light or fresh air. The construction noise began each morning bright and early at 7:30 am. Contact banging, drilliing, scraping and you could even hear the contruction works talking and going about their workday. We could not even use the patio during the day because of the smell, noise and constant presense of contruction workers during daylight hours.I could go on and on....but I won't. To discover this upon our arrival was shameful and almost criminal. The owner even admitted in our communication that it was a mistake that he didn't divulge this to me. Had ever told me (in the 6 months we had commuicated prior to our arrival) that there
Christopher T.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2025