We had a lovely stay at Ricardo's apartment recently. His mum Margarida was very communicative and gave us all the details regarding directions, places to visit, local supermarket locations etc in advance. Ricardo's apartment is located in an area that is close to public transport, restaurants and supermarkets. They also have all amenities available in their home including some bonus ones for families(stroller, high chair etc). There were just two downsides that we experienced in their apartment 1) there was constant airplane noise in the evening and at night as airplanes flew directly above the apartment to land at the airport and 2) You can hear all the noise from the apartment upstairs, don't think there's any sound proofing between apartments. Other than this, we had a very comfortable stay.