Please consider reading this honest review before booking this property.
Usually people say nothing on their reviews simply because they want to be nice and not look picky. But actually it's really important to be honest about one's experience and not shy away because it will improve the quality of other people's holidays. That is why I decided to write my experience about this listing.
1- Location of this property is central and very good (but do keep in mind uphills). However, there is a public bench in front of it on which young men sit all the night, drinking and talking. It also does not feel safe (one of the reviewers from Russia said a burglar broke the door and stole their things in oct 2018).
2- The bathroom is en-suit and does not have a door. The bathroom extractor fan does not work, hence the bedroom gets smelly. The space for using the toilet is so so tiny! Just for you to understand it: imagine the space between economy air-plane seating; the space in front of the toilet seat to the wall is maybe less than that in front of a chair in an aircraft.
3- The bathroom smells and is not clean. The shower valve knob is broken and so you cannot use the other head shower, only the hand held shower. No shampoo or body wash is provided.
4- There is no air condition (when Lisbon gets hot it's a disaster) and if you open the window there is always the smell of smoking coming from the neighbour. On our first night the neighbour was shouting and yelling on the phone so loud from 3:30 am till 7 in the morning. So of course I never had a good night's sleep during my stay.
5- There is no curtain in front of the living room's window (only a solid pull down metal cover). So when it is hot if you want a breeze, you will not have privacy since there are plenty neighbours' windows in sight and those walking past have full view (especially that the alley in front of the window is on an uphill).
6- The sofa is so dirty; you can see the dirt on it.
7- The oven always causes the fuse of the electricity to go off. To cook one meal it probably fused at least six times. And that was having only the oven on, without the hob or anything else.
8- The draws were dirty and you can even see hair in it from the previous people. Also the bedroom ceiling corner had few spider webs.
Conclusion: Even if Roman was giving this property for free I wouldn't go into it. It really effected the quality of our holiday. I found the public toilet was much easier to use than the flat's toilet.
Lisbon is a really beautiful city. We enjoyed our trip and the only downgrade was our place.
Now I appreciate it if other people take time and write with honestly about their experience so we Airbnb'ers do not fall for this kind of properties.