Sparkling clean apartment, loaded with character, spacious with an added benefit of having a private courtyard - the best part of which was a clothesline that ran alongside a hedge of gardenias, leaving our clothes smelling lovely. The apartment is quiet, roomy convenient to parliament as well as to the Praça das Flores. 10-15 minute walk to subway (Rato station), but bus stop and 28 tram are much closer. The best ice cream store in the city is your neighbor, and there is a Continente grocery store just a 3 minute walk away, and a mini-precio almost as close.
Plenty of restaurants nearby, but you’re not in the noise of Alfama or the bustling center, although you are very convenient to both of those places. Paolo the host was very good with communication, and even provided a new fan for us on request (we had the bad luck of visiting during a heatwave).