Pros:
- Huge apartment for myself and my partner
- excellent location, right in central Lisbon
- lovely big windows all around, they let in so much light and the shutters do a good job of keeping the apartment dark at night
- comfortable bed
- a bottle of white wine as a gift :)
- shower has very good pressure
- bathtub is a nice bonus!
- checking in to the apartment was easy, no need to walk to a place to collect keys
- there is a powerful fan which really helped with the heat
Cons
- As is to be expected anywhere in central Lisbon, the noise from the streets can be quite bad sometimes, especially late at night with the bottle bank right below the apartment window, and the rubbish van came very early around 6/7am most mornings. You can hear vehicles and trams very clearly because of how many big windows there are in the apartment! But we managed to sleep okay, I recommend earplugs. In order to stay in a good location in Lisbon, I think this is the compromise!
- The window in the kitchen couldn't be locked properly so we had problems with mosquitos coming in, also I think they were coming in through the vent in the bathroom. I recommend bringing some insect spray/mosquito repellent.
- lighting is very cold blue colour, not relaxing at all! I hope the host will change the lightbulbs for the next guests so the atmosphere is warmer and more relaxing.
overall a really great stay, we were here for 6 nights and by the end I was getting a bit tired of the noise issues so would also be perfect for a shorter stay. The size of the apartment is surprisingly huge for Lisbon!