Ines was in touch with me almost immediately to start getting information from us about our visit. A couple days our arrival, she offered to arrange a pickup from the airport for us. This may have been unnecessary because the airport is well-connected to transit options, but it was so much easier for the four of us to not have to worry about any of that right after showing up in a new country. She also ended up arranging our departure taxi as well, so we definitely thought it was worth it! When we arrived, Ines sat down with us and quickly walked us through a handmade/curated recommendations book with not a bad tip in it. She also left some prepaid metro cards to save us the hassle of buying them. We topped up approximately what we had used, and assume that's what the people before us did. She helped us out with a couple of cultural tips (ie: relax, everyone else is). She wanted to give us more info, but we were craving some food, so she told us where to go and let us on our way. She would have taken time out of her day to meet us the next day, but we were proper tourists and stayed out of the house most of the day. She was absolutely the most helpful host we've ever experienced!

The description of this listing is very accurate. In fact, I'm so used to "large" meaning "big enough to relax, but no bigger" in Europe. This apartment? It's LARGE. It has beautiful period ceilings and floors, and a nice long balcony facing the neighboring garden instead of the street. It is on the first floor (second to Americans) and has a nice wide staircase, making access simple.

The neighborhood is a 5-minute walk from a major metro station, multiple trolley stops, the various hop-on hop-off tour buses, and most of the nightlife, but still manages to be nice and quiet, as it's not actually on a main drag.

This is hands-down the best apartment I've ever stayed in via Airbnb, and I won't even bother looking up other places in Lisbon next time we go back. We were willing to try the place because originally there were 6 in our group, but even if it's just 2 of us in the future, I'll take it. I've paid more for worse than this would cost for 2 people.