The good: apartment was as advertised. In a beautiful and central district. Maria Joao and Felipe were very helpful and responsive. Great value. Overall happy.
The mediocre: The "second bedroom" is a loft which is very open to the rest of the apartment and only accessible through a kind of scary ladder/staircase. I traveled with a friend, neither of us was willing to stay there, so my friend ended up going to a different hotel while I took the one non-loft bedroom. If you need multiple rooms, please be aware one of them will be this loft. The listing is completely honest about this, we just weren't expecting it to be as open and as hard-to-access as it was. The neighborhood is pretty noisy and the apartment had poor noise insulation. And although we never saw living bugs, we did see a dead one, so they must be around.