I stayed here with my girlfriend and unfortunately it wasn't a great stay. The place was clean and the location is amazing, but there were a few issues:
- The bed is rather uncomfortable and the bedroom smelled a little bit moldy. Not unusual in old buildings I guess but I feel like the host should do something about it.
- The pictures are a little deceiving as they make the place look newer, cleaner, and slightly bigger than it actually is
- Very (and I mean very) noisy neighbor
- Apartment not quite fully equipped.
- Air conditioning and some alarm were listed in the ad when we booked it, but they were not present. There was only a fan.
The last point was a pain point for me, not only because we had some really warm days and the lack of air conditioning annoyed me, but really because we felt deceived by the host since he listed this in the amenities section. Maybe it was by mistake, I don't know, but we felt it was unfair enough that we reached out to Airbnb to arrange an early check-out, which we fortunately got. So we shortened our stay to only two nights. The stay wasn't all terrible, like I said, the location is amazing and the place was generally clean (apart from the mold smell), and it still is decent value. Communication was good too, via WhatsApp. So for short stays in the Alfama neighboorhood, this could be good.
I hesitated between giving 2 or 3 stars. I thought 2 because of the incorrectly listed amenities which for me was a big deal, but I went with 3 starts just because at least the communication was efficient and the host even offered to talk to the neighbor to sort out the noise issue, and also because the location was really good.