Hugo is an exceptional host and extremely helpful and charming. Unfortunately we did not find the beach nearly as closely to the apartment as we expected and the host's friend who helped us enter the apartment underestimated the long journey to cascais (nearby beach town) which was not 2 metro stops as she described (the journey takes over an hour by public transport). All this was fine but if unsure hosts should be honest about this as this was much more of a journey than we anticipated. The apartment was beautiful. Totally charming and just what we wanted!