I had to give some thought on this review. I will try to be objective and fair. On the positive side, the location is excellent and central. The apartment is very large with a huge living and dining room, both very nicely set up. All rooms including bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen are large and nicely done. There are at least six bedrooms , three with windows and three without. The internet is good. The amenities are fine (except soap and shampoo not provided). The welcome on our arrival was good and it was easy to communicate with Joao and his team and they were fast to respond. So the first impression when you get in is very positive.

On the negative side - our stay did not turn out to be good and negatively affected our cherished family holiday in Lisbon. Two reasons for this:

(a) All the rooms facing any window get a lot of noise. The three bedrooms with windows are next to a "party" alley where immense amount of street noise persists with young people having fun till 5AM . After that there is noise of maintenance vehicles. However if you shut the windows, you will not get any noise. The windows are really good.

(b) However, the apartment has NO air conditioning. That would not be a problem at all , except there were no fans provided to us when we arrived. Which meant that if you closed the windows, the apartment would be stuffy and hot and you couldn't sleep. If you opened the windows, the three bedrooms would get a beautiful nice Lisbon breeze, except the noise wouldn't let you sleep !!! ;

(c) So we could not sleep the first night. On the second day we asked our host to arrange for fans. After some persistence, they agreed to do it, but the fans could be delivered only the day after. So we could not sleep properly on the second night. In fact, two people from our party has to move to a nearby hotel for two of our three nights in Lisbon. Which costed us a significant amount of money .

(d) Our hosts delivered three new fans the next morning - which worked fine for some of us (as the other in any case had to stay at the hotel).

My understanding from Joao is that he has placed an order for sufficient number of fans. So I hope future guests will not face the same problem as us. Otherwise it is a good place , good location, responsive hosts, comfortable beds and amenities; Be cognizant of the noise and that fans are necessary to sleep well in any of the rooms .