The apartment is in the old section of town but the inside is brand new & well designed space. We never used the air conditioner because we got beautiful cross breeze with windows open. You are walking distance (right down the block) to resturants, shopping & beautiful sights. Since Lisbon is so big we just grabbed a cab to go to distant sights or when we didn't feel like walking home (cabs very resonable here). The only difficulty was parking. Next time I would research distant cheap parking garage and taxi to the house. We paid 17€/ day at a nearby garage. You do not need a car once you are here. I would definatly rebook if I come back to Lisbon.