Our rental of the “studio prestige” apartment was the most infuriating experience we have had in our over 30 years of renting vacation houses and apartments in the US and Europe.
First, we agree with the previous online reviews of the apartment: it is ideally located in Paris and it is very well constructed and was spotlessly clean when we arrived.
However, the stay infuriated us because of simple oversights that marred the experience—the main oversight being that there are absolutely no written or online instructions available on how to use any of the equipment in the apartment. There was no local Paris VRBO person for us to contact to discuss/question the points/problems mentioned below.
Thus,
1. There is no information on how to separate/dispose of trash, bottles and garbage, or where in the building to put these materials after the single bag in the kitchen is filled with all of these items. Nor were there any replacement garbage bags available in the apartment.
2. When either television is turned on the message on the screens is, “scan for channels”. How are renters expected to know how to do this? And what channels are going to be available?
3. The Daikon air conditioning units require unique knowledge to turn them on, to switch them from cooling to heating and vice versa, to adjust their fan speeds, etc. To understand how to operate the units we had to resort to determining the Daikon model numbers for the units and then go online to download the Daikon user manual