Our stay at Paula and Zita´s apartment was nice. Although the hosts weren´t able to welcome is at arrival, we were welcomed with a nice cake and met up later with Zita. She provided us with a little bit more information about the house and also gave us great tips and recommendations.
The place is a tad bit smaller for 5 people than expected from the photos, however after a day we were all used to it. The apartment is quite central and a lot of the area is quite easy to get by walking. The metro station is about a 2 minute walk which made it easy to explore other parts of Lisbon as well as outside of the city. The house also has great little outside area, we had all our breakfasts there, right under the blue sky.
Everything was pretty much great. The only downside was that the noise was a little louder than we initially had thought it would be. The reason for that is that the apartment is located in quite a lively neighbourhood and has several bars and restaurants right down the windows of the two bedrooms at the front of the house. However, some earplugs drowned out the noise for the most part. Though I would suggest to keep in mind that even when you have earplugs it can get pretty noisy at some points at night because of the number of people on the streets as well as noisy upstairs neighbours.
But despite that, we had a pleasant stay at Paula and Zita´s place!