My husband and I stayed in Marie's apartment for a week with my brother- and sister-in-law. The duplex apartment is conveniently located to explore the Alfama neighborhood. Since it has two full bathrooms and three bedrooms, it was very comfortable for two couples (we used the upstairs bedroom and one that's downstairs and has a queen bed --there's an additional double-bed bedroom downstairs which we left unused). The apartment has a cozy living room and a small but well-equipped kitchen we took advantage of to cook several light meals. The apartment also has two A/C units: one in the living/dining room area and a second one in the upstairs bedroom. We thoroughly appreciated these during our peak-summer stay in mid-late July!
We had a couple of small issues, mainly related to responsiveness and communication: When we arrived to check in at the agreed upon time of 5pm (already after the 4pm posted time for check-in) and met Paulo to get the keys, to everyone's surprise, the apartment was still being cleaned. Apparently one of the cleaners was out sick and that delayed the process. Although Paulo apologized, we needed to leave and wait for another two hours for the apartment to be ready. This hassle could've been avoided if we'd been told of the delay beforehand. The other small issue was that when we ran out of dishwasher pods on day 2 (there was only one in the apartment) and when I asked for more, Paulo said he'd bring some. However, he never did and we had to end up buying pods ourselves. Buying dishwasher pods wasn't a big deal, but it was annoying to wait for days for him to drop by, only to buy them ourselves in the end.
Still, these are minor issues. We had a great stay and the apartment worked very well for us. I recommend it!