Airbnb at Le Havre, France

Name of Airbnb : La Sanvicaise
Room Type : Entire Home/Apartment 
Area : Le Havre, Haute-Normandie, France

• Communication with Yveline has been easy and reponsive before our arrival. We told her our ETA and she was there to welcome us. 
• She briefed us on her house and we fixed a time for us to see each other again for the goodbye. 
• It's a 3 storey house located on a hill right above Le Havre city centre. Her son stays on the ground level only for the weekend but we didn't see him. We parked our car right inside the compound here. 
• On the first floor, the living room is on the right (when you face the house), dining room and kitchen on the left, and another living room right behind, with full height windows, facing a huge garden. 
• On the 2nd floor, 2 rooms, a twin bed and a double bed on each side of the staircase, with the bathroom in between. The front of the whole house faces the south, so it's bathed and warmed in the morning light as the sun rises. 
• It was pretty cold in Oct, so Yveline had the heaters turned on slightly. For us, it still felt cold. Fortunately, there's a portable heater that we could use and we place it to use wherever we felt cold. 
• She provides a lot of information in a file, what to do, nearby shops, restaurants to eat, etc... This was our 2nd time in Le Havre but this time we stayed longer, to know it better. 
• It's very convenient here, near to the Le Grand Cap Shopping Centre, where there's also the huge hypermarket Auchan, to the Parc de Montgeon, and to the city centre or the coast. 
• We visited Etretat for the 2nd time but at sunset, Le Tréport, St Valery sur Somme and Fécamp.
• In town, we shopped at Docks Vauban and Espace Côty and Le Grand Cap nearby. 
• We also enjoyed eating seafood : lobsters, turbot, "bar", "bulot", scallops, oysters and mackerel, all so fresh and cheap, that we had lobsters and turbot twice.
• Yveline's kitchen came in handy, her induction pots heat up really fast and of course, pretty well equipped for our cooking, and the dishwasher as well.
• Yveline also provides a paid option to engage a cleaning lady at the end of our stay. Though we always clean up the kitchen and clear trash at every Airbnb home, we may not have the same yardstick as to the standard of cleanliness, so we took up the option. 
• It's a quiet neighbourhood. It's also our first Airbnb experience in France and we had a wonderful stay thanks to Yveline.