We arrived late afternoon and rang Mauro to meet us at the property, which is only a 10 minute walk from Rato metro station. He was prompt and helped us with our luggage (up the two storey flight of stairs, which was very welcome after a hot walk) and showed us around the property. It's a cosy top floor apartment in a really nice residential area, with a couple of nice cafe's (try Taste down the road near Praca de Flores) and a small supermarket for the essentials. It's walking distance from Chiado and Cais de Sodre station for getting along to Belem and the coast (we were going to the NOS Alive music festival at Alges - so ideal for us). Given the area and proximity to the centre of Lisbon, it's easy to see why this apartment is so popular! However, this popularity is perhaps it's weakness...the apartment does have the feeling of being very regularly used.

Just a couple of things we thought could do with a bit of maintenance - nothing major, just a day or two of no bookings for Pedro and/or Mauro to go round, put a small lick of paint on things and get it back up to top standards! We'd have absolutely no hesitation about staying here again if this was done, and we're already looking at NOS Alive 2017!