| Date | Rating | Comment
[Guest Comments: 2 positive, 0 negative]
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| 06/01/06 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
Thank you for creating such a home here. We stayed with our family of 5 for a month and found every comfort we needed--plenty of hangers, towels, blankets--along with all the touches that really make it feel like a home...art, music, great colors, wonderful furniture and ambience. Thank you!
From Tom (one of the children): We had a great 4 weeks here! We had a fantastic time in Paris but were always happy to return here each night.
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Sally and Lee
Bellevue, WN
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| 04/25/06 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
The apartment is wonderful! So well equipped, comfortable and close to great transportation all over Paris. We had so much fun exploring the city and this neighborhood. Thank you for answering all our questions and playing Easter Bunny for our Daughter. We plan to come back soon.
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Andrea & Chris
Portland OR
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| 02/07/06 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
It was a pleasure once again to stay at your spacious Douai apartment. You have everything set up so I feel like I'm right at home. The new kitchen is "tres belle"
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Mary Ann
St. Louis, Mo
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| 03/02/03 |
Positive
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| We always measure our experiences by "would we do it again?" The answer is a resounding yes! The apartment was a perfect setting for our comings and goings. We enjoyed every day. Thanks for sharing your lovely home. |
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Mary Ann C., St. Louis, Missouri |
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| 02/09/03 |
Positive
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What an amazing four weeks. One of the best trips ever! The apartment was great – I feel like I’m leaving home. I’ll be back soon…. There are so many places nearby to visit, eat and shop. My favorite for pastries and sandwiches is “Coquelicot” at 24, rue des Abbesses. Great pain aux chocolat et pistashe. I would get there early and put one of their sandwiches in my pack for later. So good! I also loved the handcrafted jewelry at “Galerie Sylvia Rhud” at 19, rue Fontaine. Also, there is a great little movie house up the street on rue Tholoze, just up from Abbesses. Good for when you just need to sit for a bit (with café & bar). OK, I’m off – Thanks again.
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Cherie Lester, Washington, DC |
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| 06/30/02 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
Well, Stephanie and Darrell -- there's a BIG problem with Your Douai apartment! Guess what? It's so pleasant and quiet and comfortable that one is continually fighting the urge to "stay home" with wine, pate, and wonderful bread from our neighbors the Gless', a bottle of wine and a little music - and to hell with sightseeing!
However, we did manage to evade the cocooning bug most of the time and certainly accomplished our fair share of the Paris Experience. After a bad day of hiking for miles experiencing the good, bad and the ugly of Parisienne Cafes, it was such a treat to arrive home on Douai and decide in such comfort whether we would venture out once more to have dinner in the neighborhood - or just stay home with some good wine, plenty of hot water to soothe our tired old bones in the bathtub and relax over a suitably relaxing C.D.
Great to spend time here - we had a delightful holiday. Too bad that all good things must end - but now it's back to real life.
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Madeline and Mike
Tucson, AZ
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| 04/05/02 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
Thank you both so much for your wonderful welcome, advice, enthusiasm! Your apartment is stunning and it was perfect for our family of six. How could we ever have squeezed into hotel rooms!? The apartment is so elegant and made us all feel so much more a part of neighborhood life in Paris. The boys enjoyed their walk to the boulangerie each morning coming home with warm baguettes and everywhere we met such friendly Parisians.
The weather was superb and the blossoms were everywhere.
We would love to return and of course we will tell all our friends so you may be inundated with New Zealanders.
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Baker Family (6)
Auckland, New Zealand
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| 01/15/02 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
We will never stay in a hotel again! Having our own pied-a-terre in Paris in such a fun neighborhood made us feel like locals. We took advantage of your suggestions…shopped on Lepic for our home cooked dinners, bought our morning and evening baguette on the corner and ate lunch at Le Gourmet.
As wonderful as this experience was we won't be staying again now that we have our own pied-a-terre - however, we will be sending all our friends. Thanks for your warm hospitality. We know we'll see you soon. A bientot!
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Joanne & Joe
Greenwich Village, NY
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| 10/15/01 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
We loved the apartment. It is beautifully decorated with tasteful touches such as the art, carpets and curtains. The ambience is great - we felt like true Parisians! The multitude of literature is an added bonus.
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Du Preeze Family
Cape Town, South Africa
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| 01/07/00 |
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Guest Comment Entered By Homeowner:
Of the many Paris apartments we have called home (in the 4th, 6th, 7th, 11th, and 13th arrondissements), we remember none so fondly - or with such a desire to go back - as Stephanie Freedman and Darrell Halverson's stunning place on the rue de Douai in the 9th. Unlike any of the other places we've rented before, their apartment managed to offer every conceivable convenience without detracting at all from its restored 19th century décor. Somehow, the modern kitchen, laundry facilities, luxurious bathroom (including the rarity of an American-size water heater) and entertainment equipment (TV, VCR, CD, the works) harmonize perfectly with the three marble fireplaces, grand mirrors, antique molding, and glorious hardwood floors. The space itself is amazing: large, light, and very quiet with two very comfortable bedrooms and separate living and dining rooms. We were very comfortable having dinner parties, something we'd never been able to do in previous quarters. Everything in the apartment - from the antique armoires to the well-chosen artworks and the quality linens - made us feel like we were in a friend's home and not in a rented apartment. The two foldout couches are very comfortable and very flexible for guests.
The neighborhood is a very pleasant mix of touristed to the north, shopping district to the west, and residential to the south. Unlike so many arrondissements, the upper reaches of the 9th have managed to maintain a close-knit, neighborly feel, with local residents congregating at cafes and playing with their children in the local parks and playgrounds. Two nearby market streets (our favorite was on the rue des Martyrs, but we also liked very much the rue Lepic), excellent neighborhood restaurants (especially around the rue des Dames), several "boutique" museums (we thoroughly enjoyed both the Musée de la vie romantique and the Gustave Moreau Museum), and even the close by Montmartre vineyard round out the neighborhood's allure, also and undeniably built on its convenient transportation, excellent movie houses, and the bustling Blvd. Clichy.
Darrell and Stephanie are exceptional landlords. Warm and inviting, respectful and responsible, they earned our trust and warranted our highest marks and we would happily rent from them again without any reservations.
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Hannah and Jorge
Chicago, IL
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