An Apartment in Montmartre
Rue de Steinkerque
ABOVE: The dining room and library of our
rented holiday flat near Sacré-Coeur. INSET BELOW: The building entrance on the
Rue de Steinkerque.
By Durant Imboden
 In
April, 2006, we rented a furnished vacation apartment in Montmartre from
Home Rental Connections,
a booking agency that offered several properties in the 18th Arrondissement. We
chose a flat called "St. Pierre" on Rue de Steinkerque, a short north-south
pedestrian street that runs from the Anvers Métro station to the staircase
leading up to Sacré Coeur.
Although Montmartre was farther from the center of Paris than
our usual haunts, we chose it this time for two reasons:
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We were arriving from London on
Eurostar, and Montmartre was within easy walking distance of the
Gare du
Nord.
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We were in the mood for a change of pace, and Montmartre--which was an
independent village until 1860--offered an experience much different from
the more centrally located arrondissements along the Seine. (For an
account of an earlier apartment stay, see An
Apartment in Paris, which describes a flat on the
Île de la Cité.)
Reserving the apartment
Booking the flat was a straightforward process: A few months
before our trip, we checked availability and completed an e-form on the
Home Rental Connections Web
site. An initial deposit of 50% secured the rental; the remaining 50% was due a
month before our arrival, with a refundable security deposit due two weeks
before we occupied the apartment. On the day of our arrival (see
next page), all we had to do was show up with enough cash to pay the modest
cleaning fee.
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