Paris Vacation Rental: Chardonnay

Situated in the 7th arrondissement, on the left bank of the river Seine, this beautiful Paris vacation rental has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, air conditioning, balcony and a top location across from the Eiffel Tower and its beautiful surrounding park. Find a long balcony where you can enjoy morning coffee and warm croissants from the pastry shop a few doors away. The location of this Paris vacation rental is superb in one of the most central and safest neighborhoods of Paris. When you stay at the Chardonnay vacation rental for your Paris vacation, you’ll love the fact that you are literally surrounded by cafés, shops, restaurants and open markets.

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Description of our Paris vacation rental

Our beautiful Paris vacation rental is 650 sq. feet with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and long south-facing balcony. It matches our demanding requirements for a fantastic apartment for your vacation in Paris: We found this beautiful Paris apartment for your vacation rental by sheer luck. While admiring a painting at a neighborhood art dealer, we heard that the artist's niece lived in the same apartment building and was going to put it on the market. It never made it onto the market as we signed the same day we saw it. The Chardonnay Paris vacation rental apartment is perfect for two couples visiting Paris; or a family of five with young children.

Enter our Parisian vacation rental to find the toilet on your left, with small sink for extra 'getting ready' room. It is tiled in white Carrara marble with a gray and pink geometric border. We found an antique marble bowl at an antique market in Italy, carried it back, and converted it into a beautiful little sink.

The kitchen of the apartment is next on your left; newly remodeled with contemporary pale wood cabinets and pale granite worktops. A heavy sliding glass panel with simple, sandblasted design slides shut to close off the kitchen, providing an attractive feature when viewed from the living room. The kitchen of our Paris vacation rental is fitted with all appliances: refrigerator/freezer, microwave, oven, dishwasher, toaster, coffee maker, and espresso machine. Dishes are from E. Dehellerin in Paris, the shop which furnishes all good restaurants. With a full array of cookware, you can shop the local market and prepare your own gourmet meals.

Enter the piece de resistance of our Paris vacation rental on your right and you know you’re in Paris. The living room is a southwest facing double room and has two sets of French doors which open onto a sunny balcony. This room has beautiful, original oak parquet floors, a white marble fireplace, and mirror. The first half of the living room includes an antique chest of drawers next to the fireplace. The round, beech wood dining table is on the other side of the fireplace and expands to seat six.

Special sliding panel doors of maple and sycamore were made to open up the room during the day and slide closed as needed, making a separate bedroom to sleep two.

The second half of the living room is furnished with an Empire-style 'lit bateau' daybed that is attractive and practical as it provides comfortable seating during the day and pulls out to make comfortable twin beds at night. We believe our guests prefer these deluxe beds to what is generally available in vacation rentals in Paris. The TV (watch CNN or BBC news), DVD player (bring your favorite movies as well), and sound system make it a comfortable room for relaxing in after a long day of sightseeing and shopping. There is a beautiful antique table and mirror on the left wall of the living room, facing the French doors. A built-in closet provides extra hanging and storage space in our Paris apartment. There is free access to a wireless adsl line for your computer, with secure password.

The view of Paris from the balcony of our vacation rental is special: looking down the tree-lined Avenue de la Bourdonnais, over a low, red-brick, turn-of-the-century school and directly into the trees of the Champ de Mars to the right. Look right from the balcony and you see the Eiffel tower, only a block away. The view at night is very special, as you can stand on the balcony and watch the magic show of lights on the Eiffel Tower every hour.

It’s wonderful to watch the day unfold below: parents taking children to school; people buying their morning and evening baguettes, coming back from the market with their shopping baskets full, or joining friends for an espresso in the café on the corner. We believe that a great view is an important factor to a wonderful stay in Paris, whether it’s for your first or fiftieth time. It is extremely difficult to find these kinds of apartments; we say they must have the ‘Wow!’ factor when you walk in the door. As a result, our selection is small, but we are uncompromising in our standards.

Proceed down the corridor to find the first bathroom on your right, including a full fixed shower and sink, tiled in beige limestone. The washer and dryer are in the closet next to the bathroom.

The apartment corridor widens to a reading room which becomes the second bedroom, to sleep one or two. This room is naturally lit by a large window in the corridor, overlooking the quiet courtyard of the building. This cozy room has built-in bookshelves, lamps, built-in closet and an Empire-style wooden day bed. The day bed is similar to the one in the living room, with twin mattress and second pullout twin bed underneath. This is a perfect room for quiet reading or napping, as doors close it off from the entryway and master bedroom. And at night you can view the top of Paris’ most visited monument, the Eiffel Tower.

Going through the reading room you arrive in the master bedroom of our Paris rental, with a large window overlooking the inner courtyard of the building. The extra-wide queen bed is new with high quality mattress. There is a built-in closet with television above.

The compact second bathroom is en suite, with full, fixed shower and handmade sink, painted with flowers. It is tiled in beige French limestone with halogen down lights.

An important note: all of the windows are state-of-the-art double glazed, the same as used in luxury hotels. The apartment is located in the middle of this bustling city, but is extremely quiet for a good night’s sleep.

• Incredible view of the neighborhood from the balcony of our vacation rental in Paris. Look right to see the magic Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars Park from the balcony and living room. Staying in apartments with views like this creates a memory of a lifetime.
• The location is one of the best in Paris: 3-minute walk to the river; 15 minutes to the Invalides; 10 minutes to the Trocadéro; the Grand Palais and the couturier's on Ave. Montaigne, the Four Seasons George V for tea or 3-star dining; 15-minute walk to the Champs Elysées; 20-minute walk to Place de la Concorde and the Bon Marché department store.
• You are surrounded by restaurants that local Parisians go to, cafés, bistros and shops.
• You are six blocks to the golden dome of the Invalides, where Napoleon is buried, along with surrounding park.
• You are seven blocks to the incredible Rodin Museum.
• One block to the Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars. The Champ de Mars Park is a rare bonus in Paris as there are few large parks in the center of the city. Walk, run, play in 1 of 3 playgrounds, basketball court, go to the puppet theater or just sit and enjoy. Nearby skating and bike rental are fun activities in the park, especially after strenuous site seeing. The apartment is next to the American Library, an institution in Paris, and across from an old elementary school built at the turn-of-the-century.
• In January 2005, the Eiffel Tower converted the first floor into an ice skating rink 189 feet high above the rooftops of Paris; we hope it will continue every year.
• The Seine River is three blocks away and right near where the famous Bateau Mouche boat tours begin.
• Open Markets: Rue Cler is five blocks away, one of the best and most famous streets for food in Paris. Pont de l'Alma is a five-minutes walk and has the largest open market in Paris every Saturday morning. Merchants come from the country with wines, fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, pâtés, breads, even five types of escargots!

We leave several Paris guidebooks and other information on the neighborhood for you to peruse during your stay.

This is a non-smoking apartment and, sorry, but no pets are allowed.

We think you will be delighted to stay in our Paris apartment! Please let me know if you have any other questions about our Paris vacation apartment or would like to check availability; we are happy to help.