Lovely apartment in the heart of Alfama. Many restaurants and bars nearby. Communication and check in was great. Unfortunately 2 things let this apartment down. Firstly it is incredibly noisy at night (people returning from bars/restaurants, the neighbours below and bins being dragged up and down the cobbles outside in the early hours of the morning every morning). Secondly, as others have mentioned the apartment smells strongly of stale cigarette smoke as the neighbours below are smokers. I appreciate that both of these problems are outside of the hosts control; however, it did impact our stay.