I’ll rate this experience 5/10 I’ll state the pros and cons of this whole service
Pros
Really good location, but if you’ve a heavy luggage, then you must note that it takes 5minutes of walking steep roads and stairs from the Rossio station to the house. I feel a bit tired even only with my side pack after walking this route
The breakfast is quite good
3 toilets for the whole hostel is quite sufficient, I don’t need to wait the others for bathing
Luis is quite easy going, even I check out late for 30 minutes he doesn’t reprimand me, he is friendly and nice
His staffs is helpful. My luggage was still in Amsterdam when I arrived Lisbon due to the mistake of the airline. His staff helped me to contact the airline and successfully helped me to get it delivered to my room on the next day
Cons
The room is Really really hot and suffocating during hot weather. It’s 27-28 degrees during night time in my stay. even I opened all windows it is still extremely hot. Although Luis gave me a fan, without air conditioning makes the room still hot as hell. I had to use the fan to blow my head directly to sleep comfortably. Thus this room is not so suggested for guests who come in a hot weather.
Not so good for tall people. I am only 5”6 (167cm tall) but the ceiling of the room is tilted, so sometimes I need to slightly bend myself to a lower height , in order not to get my head injured by the ceiling. I was quite disappointed by not knowing this in advance, this tilted ceiling greatly reduce the spaciousness of this room. Note that, im only a short guy.
The room lock is not working so well. I wish to lock my room when I am out. However the lock is quite hard to use for me, it is suggested that the lock should be replaced to make it easier to be used.
The overall feeling of the whole building is a bit old
Luis did not reply messages frequently. Although some questions can be answered by his statement in the Airbnb page, I still expect my host can answer my questions as sometimes I may forget or not sure about those regulations. This can be seen in his reply rate in the Airbnb page. Luis has lots of guests checking in everyday and that’s probably why. Therefore don’t expect him always reply / reply messages in a timely manner.