We loved our stay at Fernanda's flat in Carcavelos.
She is a super friendly and welcoming host who put us immediately at ease, let us in, gave us the keys, etc and made sure all our questions were answered. She also always responded quickly to queries.
Fernanda also keeps a super well stocked apartment with everything we could need from kitchen utensils to shampoo, from LOTS of clean towells to extra covers. Everything was right there.
The location of this flat really is outstanding, too:
- It is literally 5 minutes from the beach (on foot).
- It is 10 minutes to a couple of local grocery stores/mini-marts where we got everything we needed to cook for our family of 4.
- It is about a 15 to 20 minute walk to the train station - that gets us both to Estoril (where we went to a lovely outdoor pool) or to Belem or Lisbon for sight-seeing. :)
We did have a couple of minor issues. For one, we had only one key for the downstairs door - which meant we forever had to message each other to be let in (if we were not the one in, first). On one night, the flat's door wouldn't latch, at all - this was a bigger deal BUT I also trust Fernanda will sort this quickly and easily. Plus the neighbourhood truly feels very safe and easy-going.
We really had a blast here and would totally come back and use this same flat as we had such a positive experience, overall.