Joana is an excellent host, very responsive to messages and cares very much about you enjoying their previous home.
The location is very central, 2 minutes walk from a beautiful beach and so many wonderful bars and restaurants. We had wonderful food both in Cascais and Lisbon, which was a very easy and not expensive train journey.
It is very noisy in the apartment, the street below is lively only until about midnight which is manageable but the house is situated right opposite the recycling for the pedestrian streets outside. This results in early starts but by the end of the holiday we were used to it.
We were there with our young child which I do not feel the place is suitable for. There is no door from the child bedroom to the kitchen and steep stairs elsewhere. Lessons learnt from us.
I think we were a bit unlucky when we were there and were not able to relax. Our child was ill and went to hospital one evening (the health care was excellent and better than we have in the Uk). She also fell out of bed another evening as the bed barrier fitted by the hosts were fitted incorrectly. No injuries thankfully but we were on edge for the rest of the trip.
All in all Cascais is amazing, but I think I need to be more careful with what j book for travelling with a young child.