went well:
- it's an okay place. good location for tourists, but I'd stay in principle real and Uber everywhere (Ubers are cheap about 4 bucks to get around Lisbon).
- the owners were nice and flexible. our flight got cancelled and they were nice enough to extend the stay by 1 day for no charge. We appreciated that.
Issues:
- there is construction that starts at 8am every morning. the workers start yelling and talking at 7am. this doesn't stop till about 7pm everyday. To be fair to the owners, they did tell us about this, but were not clear of the timings and said it was minimal (which it was not)
-Overall the place is noisy, but that's what you get for the location. There is bar down the street so expect a lot of drunks walking by, drinking in the street etc...might be great if you are single and hanging out, not fun for us who had a 4 yr old.
- The check-in process was horrendous for us. We flew from the USA and our flight landed at 5am. We paid for the previous day but were told check-in is only available after 10am for us. We waited to pick up keys at a different location. I really wished they had self check-in. I felt we wasted an entire day of Airbnb fees to get the keys.
- the patio isn't really private (not with the construction happening).
- there are 4 owners for this place, it was really confusing who to contact when we did have issues. They also weren't as responsive via the Airbnb app.
Overall mixed bag. This was our first time flying to Portugal, and while the people were super nice, I'd recommend staying in a neighborhood like principle real. You will enjoy better food and have better neighborhood to relax in.