Maria's apartment is conveniently located near a popular shopping and restaurant area. It is clean, compact and has a little patio in the back. Sadly Maria never met with us or bothered to greet us by phone (the house cleaners gave us a key told us that Maria would meet us in two hours at the apartment - she never did). It is a nice apartment, but the air circulation is poor and there is no air conditioning. The living room door opens onto the sidewalk and has the only window at the front of the apartment, so if you open it for fresh air, you also open it onto the street/sidewalk where people can look directly into the living room. Bathroom light bulbs needed to be replaced (only 1 of 4 was working). There was no information for guests about the area or maps of the city (in our experience, most AirBnB hosts have offered this, or at least were present to provide information). Drivers be warned...parking is extremely difficult. We had asked Maria for information as to where we could park and leave our car for two days and she said she would send us a map with locations and never did. We received a parking ticket and a boot on our car within 2 hours of our arrival (our fault for not understanding the parking restrictions), but had difficulty getting information, in English, as to how to resolve the situation (as we do not speak Portuguese). When we called and asked Maria for help, she was unresponsive.