The location is right in the heart of Alfama -- a very touristy area and always filled with tons of people, gift shops, restaurants, etc. I would not stay in Alfama again as it was so touristy and the prices for food were outrageous ($20 for a bagel with cream cheese??). But it was very charming, nonetheless. The wifi was SLOW ... S..L..O..W... or didn't work at all. This was a drag because we had asked if it was fast and were assured it was so that we could work from the apartment. Instead, we had to rent a co-working space in order to get any work done. If you want to head to bed at a decent hour, don't plan on it because it is literally right above a Fado restaurant so singing and playing is happening until 10 or 11pm. There wasn't much in the way of being able to cook, but if you want to only cook basics (scrambled eggs), it would work fine. The apartment is much smaller than we imagined and quite cramped for two people -- and a small and very uncomfortable bed that had a valley in the middle of it so that, if two people were sleeping in it, you just both rolled to the center, which made it hard to sleep. There was no place to hang clothes and very little storage, so just plan to keep your stuff in your suitcase. Jb was a nice guy and met us at the train station to bring us to the apartment, which is pretty hard to find simply because it's Alfama, which is quite labyrinthine. The shower was really old and the tiles were moldy. It smelled like there was water damage in the wood -- a kind of rotten wood smell that was pretty potent when you walked into the apartment. But if you can overlook that, you can just get used to it. Final words -- you get what you pay for. If you'd ok with overlooking those things, it would be a fine place to stay.