The apartment is 5 min walk to the main entrance of the Bois de Boulogne: Paris' largest park and, according to Frommers, one of the most spectacular parks in Europe: jogging, row-boating, bicycling, picnics, horseback riding, shooting, restaurants ... and, for kids, Jardin d'Acclimatation: French icon Guignol puppet theatre, a zoo, amusement park, pony rides, golf driving range, and a narrow-gauge railway. It is 10 min walk to the beautiful Trocadero Gardens (children playground, carrousel, fountains ... and, straight across, the Eiffel Tower). 2 subway stops from classy Jardins du Ranelagh: with poneys rides & Guignol theatre, Marmottan Monet museum (vast collection of Impressionist works second only to that of Musée d'Orsay -- museum offers discovery tours for children), 18th Century Balzac's house museum with period furnishing, personal belongings & writing samples -- for design lovers, Foundation Le Corbusier, and Mallet-Stevens street entirely build by the architect.
The apartment is ideally located in the 16th district of Paris, at the edge of the 8th just behind the Arc of Triomphe. Champs Elysees, Trocadero and Eiffel Tower, are all at easy walking distance. So are shopping areas: Av. Victor Hugo, Champs Elysées (English newspapers, movies and books readily available), Av. Montaigne & Faubourg St Honoré. You will enjoy the great number of very good restaurants and cafés, markets & fine food shops. Bakery (LeNôtre bakery & fine food emporium 2 blocks away), Butchery, Supermarket, Pressing, Drugstore, ... are all a block away. 5 min walk to the beautiful St Didier covered food and flower market -- 10 min walk to famous President Wilson street market. The closest subway stop a block away. Secured public parking possible a block away. The 'Etoile' Rer/Metro station will lead you everywhere in the city & to the Chateau de Versailles, to Disneyland Paris or St Germain Castle.