We stayed for 4 nights during a holiday trip to Lisbon. Firstly, we would like to thank the kind man who waited up until 3am for our arrival, he was so friendly and helpful, we were glad to meet him.
Unfortunately he was not the owner, but an employee as the owner clearly has a number of apartments around Lisbon and doesn’t care much about the conditions afforded to his/her paying guests. The room we stayed in was on the fifth floor, with a window the size of a box of cereal, no view and just enough room to fit in a bed - top floor flat more than roof top flat. 2 humans and their bags do not really fit in this shoebox sized robeom. Would say if it were 1 person it might ok in size. The additional problems include the lack of air con (coupled with small window) no lock on the bathroom door, and far too many other guests when sharing 1 toilet/shower room - this is mentioned but worse than we imagined. It resulted in a lot of awkward waiting and crossing of legs for everyone involved (up to 6 people). Additionally there is no bin or mirror in the room.
Plus points include the location which is nice and central, a good shower, a coffee machine and that’s it.
So all in, we didn’t like it. The thing that irked me the most was how the owner, Kleber informed me that his ‘friend’ would let us, when in fact this person is an employee. He also referred to the apartment as his ‘home’, which it is not. In fact Kleber is running one of those terrible air bnb-based businesses that puts up the cost of rent etc for local people in Lisbon.