Landing well is a science the 13th has possessed from the origin, and any ambitious flatshare apartment request should revise it: on 21 November 1783, at six minutes to two, Pilâtre de Rozier and the marquis d'Arlandes rose from the château de la Muette — the first free human flight in history — and touched down gently, twenty-five minutes and nine kilometres later, on the Butte-aux-Cailles, where the place Paul-Verlaine now stands. Humanity had just asked for the sky; it landed in the 13th. Dare big, land true: the whole lesson holds in a single sentence.
Flight plans filed for the 13th announce the altitude and the touchdown point: €1,850 to €2,350 a month, charges settled apart, for three bedrooms in a flatshare apartment, from the Gobelins to the slabs, crew complete and guarantees lashed down. The neighbours mark out the runways next door: requests banking towards the 14th arrondissement glide over Alésia and Pernety, those for the 12th divert towards Aligre and Daumesnil.
Owner of a big slab-side floor or a Butte-aux-Cailles house? Read the requests like a control tower: course, fuel, crew. The 13th's groups display an exact envelope, steady contracts — plenty of hospitals, faculties and BnF studios —, guarantors attached, and the shared tenancy sought in plain letters within the lease. A home open to flatmates gets nothing but clear skies here: the announced team lands fast, settles long, and the apartment lives year-round instead of waiting for an elusive family.
Frequently asked questions
Is the 13th the right ground for a group request?
The best in southern Paris: surfaces the family market neglects, rents well below the centre's average, landlords — often institutional or long-established — who prefer a steady crew to a rotation of studios. The clear request lands here without any turbulence: the quarter is used to receiving what comes from the sky.
How do you write a flight plan that reassures?
Three lines of instruments: the course — target quarters and surface —, the altitude — exact envelope, ceiling included —, the touchdown — firm date and committed duration. Add the crew: trades, guarantors, two words on cabin harmony. A control tower asks for nothing more before it clears the landing.
What share goes in the logbook between Gobelins and slabs?
The reference altimeter stays set: €744 a room each month, charges on the dial, so says LocService — across the 13th, a flatshare apartment share logs between €640 and €800 per flatmate, among the gentlest in Paris for whole surfaces. Announcing it upfront keeps the flight plan legible and the descent short.
Butte-aux-Cailles, Gobelins, slabs: where to touch down?
The Butte-aux-Cailles for the village, its lanes and terrace evenings; the Gobelins for the old buildings a step from the Latin Quarter; the slabs and the BnF for the big luminous surfaces with equal bedrooms. Three clear runways: one request can mark them all, the tram runs the shuttle between them.
Owner in the 13th: how should a flight plan be received?
Like a kindly tower: check course, altitude and crew on the request, then clear a single manoeuvre — the full-crew viewing, each flatmate present, questions exchanged on the tarmac. What announces itself cleanly lands cleanly: two and a half centuries of successful landings stand as testimony to it right here.
