The stay at Álvaro's place was really great! It is a small but nice apartment with all the needed facilities for convenient living. Doors open right into your own yard with a table and chairs. You can open the umbrella to hide from the sun. Apart from the apartment itself, the place where it is located is really good. It is like 5 minutes to the picturesque beach, and the viewpoint from where you can see the ocean. There is a shop with fruit, etc., up the street (if you go in the reverse direction, moving away from the ocean) - I recommend it. A car can be parked right next to the fence. If you travel by car, you can visit the cities nearby (Sintra, Cascais) and surely Cabo da Roca. We went once on foot to the latter, and once by car - this place is worth visiting.
As for some peculiarities you probably should know:
- the shower and toilet are located in the same room as the double bed behind the glass wall;
- there are garbage containers next to the apartment, one of them is for glass and when people (even at night) throw some glass bottles, for instance, the sound can be loud enough;
- next to this apartment, there are other ones for long-term living where your neighbors live so it is not private totally, other people sometimes go by your yard, but it is not a problem at all, the place is designed in a way that you feel like you have your private territory.
Also, twice a week the house is cleaned, bed linen is changed, the carpet is vacuumed, etc. - the cleaning is very thorough.