What a wonderful place to start our first Airbnb experience. Lisbon is a great city to visit. It was our first time but I'm positive we'll be back. We enjoyed every minute of the visit. The accommodation itself was really great. Spotlessly clean, loads of space, very modern and comfortable inside, but also had a lovely secluded, private and quiet garden. When we arrived we were met on time by Sofia, who was just lovely. Really helpful and enthusiastic about the city. She took lots of time to make sure we had all the information we needed and to make sure we were fully familiar with everything in the apartment. We felt immediately at home and this feeling remained all the way through our visit. The location was great too, in a really quiet street but with one of the city's best viewing points just round the corner, lots of local shops, cafés and restaurants to choose from, and a very short walk to the world famous tram 28 route to take an easy ride into the centre of the city, or just ride it for the sake of it to enjoy this wonderful city. We are so pleased we chose this accommodation and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
As a tip to travellers who choose to stay here: If you fly into Lisbon Airport, you can of course easily get a taxi, it's really not that far. For more fun, the underground Metro system has a station actually at the airport. At the Metro station you can get a travel card for the trams and buses (can be used for both) from an automated ticket machine which at the press of a button translates to English and other languages. Buy a ticket for about seven journeys (you'll soon use them!), take the Metro to "Alameda", change from the red line to the green line towards "Cais Do Sodre" and get off after three stops at the "Intendente" station. Emerge into the open and ten metres away is the number 28 tram stop. Make sure wait at the stop on the east side of the road (the one that's going slightly uphill) and get the tram round to Rua Da Graca and get off there. You'll be just round the corner from the apartment. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES do what we did and decide to walk from Intendente Metro station because "it looks so near on Google Maps"! It is near, but it's such a steep uphill climb that just goes on forever, that unless you're an Olympic athlete in training, it could kill you off. When we arrived, looking exhausted, Sofia looked at us in amazement and said, "You came up the stairs"?!!
It's a great apartment in a fabulous friendly, picturesque, vibrant historic city. If you book here, I can't see how you can fail to have a great holiday. Enjoy.