We stayed at Diogo’s place for 4 nites at the end of a 3 week visit to Portugal and Spain. The location was excellent. We arrived on the afternoon of the beginning of St Anthony’s festival. The party was on our street with a sardine bbq right outside our balcony. There are bars and restaurants on the street so if your a light sleeper it may be bothersome as the music and people are going till late. But we couldn’t have been happier as it’s a great area to walk around and enjoy the the local feel. Everything is within a 15 min walk and the street cars are a 1 min walk where you can catch the #28 street car to Alfama with no lineups.
The room was very spacious and bright. The common areas were were clean and well equipped. It had a private bath but you had to go out of the bedroom across the common hall. It was great to have a large space to organize our things for our return flight home.
Checking in was easy and Diogo was very accommodating and spoke good English. We had a rental car throughout our trip and returned it to airport the day of arrival. We asked Diogo if it would be possible to drop our luggage off early and then return our car and yes no problem. We also had a late flight and were able to store our luggage before our departure. Caught an Uber at the corner to the airport for 12$euros.
We were a bit anxious about Lisboa and the big city feel. But staying here totally gave a small community aura. We loved Lisbon and would stay at Diogo’s again and again. Also Mario at the bar below us spoke great English and was very helpful as well.