The Old Town VIII apartment was beautiful, very clean, and in an ideal location. The location cannot be better. It is within walking distance to main tourist attractions in Lisbon and to Rossio station that takes you to Cascais. The small elevator in the building helped a lot with bringing all the luggage to the 4th floor. Having two full baths was also excellent, since we were very eager to leave the apartment in the morning and to explore the city as soon as we could. One of the hosts was already at the apartment when we arrived from the airport (note that there are three people in charge of this apartment that we communicated with: Martin, Andreas, and Liz). Liz showed us around the apartment and gave us multiple tips for sightseeing Lisbon. The bedroom in the back is relatively large, with a queen size bed; the mattress is comfortable and firm. The window faces a small service alley, and it is very close to the adjacent building, but it is very quiet. The bedroom in the front is minuscule and has two small beds in it. This one faces the main street, and can become very loud from the street noise. Also the guests in the apartment upstairs were easy to hear. We turned on the air conditioning in this bedroom only once, and then there was a strange, intermittent noise coming from the unit for the rest of our stay. The apartment is equipped with Air Conditioning in each room, although the hosts’ preference is to shut it down when you leave the apartment. For us, this meant returning to a stuffy place after a whole day of walking in the heat of the summer, and then having to wait for it to cool down before going to bed. The main issue we had was that on our second day in the apartment (we stayed 4 days) we came back to a strange smell (think sewage) and water started dripping from the exhaust vent in one of the bathrooms. The host came to take a look at it but could not identify the issue and urged us not to use the Air Conditioning when we were gone, because that can be one of the sources of water leakage. Although we refrained from using the Air Conditioning to at most an hour a day, the dripping continued intermittently and one night it poured out from the vent, waking us around 1AM. We eventually fell asleep to the dripping noise that night. The host told us that they will get somebody to fix the problem after our departure, so they wouldn’t disturb our stay. One other problem: the boiler did not have the capacity to sustain a continuous flow of hot water during a shower. Every two minutes the water would turn cold and then you would have to wait about 30 seconds to a minute for the water to turn warm again for the next 2 minutes, and...