We had a great stay at this apartment! This is a great location - especially if you are visiting the university. The interior decorating is much better than other airbnb places we’ve stayed at (across the world). The street is cute and tree lined. The short walk down to the grocery store / mini-mall is sunny (and hot in July) but just on the other side of Av. de Roma is the busy tree-lined shopping and eating area, which is both nice and convenient. The metro takes long enough to get downtown (and is hot!) that during the week we were staying in Lisbon with our baby, we actually made a lot of use of the grocery store and local cafes right on Av. da Igreja. The kitchen was great and had a beautiful dish set and everything we needed (except a wine opener, which we bought and left there so you’ll have it). As always, when staying in airbnb you are living in and around the locals rather than other tourists in a hotel, so I think you get a nice sense of this neighborhood while staying here.

We only had minor glitches that you can work around. In the dishwasher, that door to the detergent holder is getting stuck again (so the detergent never comes out and the dishes don’t get clean). We just left the door open as a workaround. Also, we couldn’t figure out how to get on the wireless or whether the “Zon Repeater” device was a full Wifi router or just a repeater. We did manage to get internet by plugging directly into the ethernet cord that comes out of the cable modem. There’s an AC unit per room, which have straightforward remote controls, but the one in the bedroom near the kitchen wouldn’t work. When turned on, it would start to open its vents then turn right back off.

One more small tip: We jaywalked across the huge Campo Grande road several times before realizing there actually *is* a place to cross it at the Av. da Igreja intersection -- it’s on the left and it runs underground.