Overall the experience was good. The main struggle I had was for the first day or two the wifi did not work for certain periods of time, mostly in the late night hours through early morning. Isabel was responsive and did something to try to boost the wifi signal. The last day the wifi was working better and seemed to worked all night. If you are really counting on wifi though you might want to check with host or other reviews that it has been working fine.

The location is fine, but maybe a little far from the main tourist attractions. It is on a steep hill so you can walk up a hill from Santa Apolonia maybe 1 km or about a half mile I think. It is roughly the same distance to the Intendente station with some uphill then a bit of downhill. I think there are buses and trolleys that come closer to the house than the metro but I never made the effort to figure those out so I just used metro. I used a taxi the first time arriving which I think I would recommend. This was my first time to Lisbon and I found the city a little easy to get turned around in the twisty streets so I think once you got used to how to get back and forth from the house it is a fine location. So I can't really fault this place for Lisbon in general having steep hills and twisty roads everywhere. The area was mostly calm. Some noisy cars day and night and occasionaly people coming through the shared hallway but overall acceptable noise level. The TV wasn't working for me, but I don't think I understood how to use it and I didn't really want to watch TV anyway.

There were several good things. The host was very responsive and helpful via email. She was flexible with my check-in which was great. Her husband let us in and he was very friendly and helpful. The house was clean and well stocked with what we needed. The beds were adequate, although pretty firm. The futon would be pretty small for two adults to share. I would recommend this for 2-3 people but 4 might be tight unless they include smaller kids.

I would be happy to stay there again, at least so long as the wifi is working fine. Now I now how to get there the location is fine and the place itself is great. I can certainly recommend. I only maybe give 4 of 5 stars for the wifi issue.