The apartment was nice and clean and tidy and well located for the bars and restaurant district. We managed to get everywhere on foot not using the trams or any other transport. The hosts were really helpful when we had a query and can’t fault them.
I’ve deducted a couple of stars just on accuracy just because I feel that it should be a bit clearer quite how small the apartment is. There are balcony double glazed doors looking out on to the street but otherwise no other windows anywhere else in the flat.
The street isn’t noisy in terms or music or bar noise BUT you do get the combination of groups of people wandering home after a night out who decide to take a seat on your doorstep to carry on an “important” and lengthy conversation at the tops of their voices (as we all know alcohol makes you think everyone around you is deaf) also a seemingly never ending supply of people (and a dog one night) being locked out of their nearby apartments and banging / yelling to be let in. The Portuguese then start their days early morning and again are prone to stoping for a chat just underneath your window. The bedroom has its own (lockable) set of double glazed doors which presumably deafens the sound from the street very effectively should you close both sets. However this does then put you in a very small sealed box (the bedroom is only very fractionally bigger than a double bed) with no ventilation. I am too claustrophobic to cope with this so we slept with both the balcony and bedroom doors open every night and just managed with the noise. For a couple of nights it’s absolutely fine but wouldn’t want to do more than that.