We are a couple in our late 50's & we stayed 3 nights at Tomas' lovely spacious 2nd floor apartment in Lisbon. All our communications had been prompt & friendly. We could follow his directions from the Santa Apolonia station up the winding streets to his apartment. My phone was playing up the day we arrived & so we were unsure if Tomas got our messages of our later than arranged arrival, so we had a nervous 20 min wait on the street outside. To our relief Tomas (another Tomas) arrived & had actually been sending me reply messages to let us know he would be coming.
He was friendly & helpful, showing us around the roomy, nicely decorated, freshly painted apartment, giving us a map & pointing out areas of interest, restaurants, shops. Importantly, he alerted us to the fact the town was gearing up to celebrate St Anthony, a public holiday. Important because we needed to shop for food to cook ourselves as restaurants may close. It was a great time to be there. Tomas supplied every brand new appliance you could need & we enjoyed making house there, watching the trams & local activity in the street from the French doors of the bedroom. In fact I would have been happy to live there a while. While Lisbon is very hilly & the apartment is not so close to metro stations (10 mins) it is in a reasonable location, with a view of the water does have a tram stop diagonally across the street. The castle is situated nearby.