It’s a lovely studio which fits a young couple nicely. You get exactly what you see in the pictures. What you don’t see in the pictures is the details, however, so there are some caveats.
The good
Location is great: 1 min. from a coffee shop; 2 min. from the subway; 5 min. from a train station and two supermarkets (Pingo Doce, Continente); 10 min. from Rua Augusta, Praça do Comércio etc.; good restaurants are 20 min. away. There’s an info centre right across the street where you can get the Lisboa card.
Not in the description, but the studio has a clothes dryer, which was very handy.
Nice view over the Praça dos Restauradores.
The bad
The place is cute, but not very practical. E.g. no soap dish, no hangers in the bathroom, faucet will splash water everywhere, bathroom sink fills up quickly, rain shower doesn’t work, pillows are very thin and useless, dish drainer is under the sink where you’d expect and want a trash bin etc. We were provided 3 little soaps, and there was some manual(!) detergent. Pretty cheap for a place 100 EUR a night. E.g. dishwashing liquid would have been useful.
During our stay the left closet had pillows, sheets etc. The right one was occupied by a tall, broken vacuum cleaner, and a tall, broken lamp. As a result, we didn’t have a proper place to put our clothes. We barely managed to fit our jackets in the right closet. There are some cabinets higher up, and a ladder exists, but that’s not very convenient for clothes that you actually use, is it? We spent the week with our clothes inside the suitcases tucked under the bed.
Lisbon is very noisy, even at night, and the outside wall and window will not insulate you from that.
The weird
The description says the place belongs to Maria & Francisco, but actual communication is done with “Youssef's Support Team”. They manage the bookings through a 3rd party website (Houst) so I was asked to provide my ID & details both on and outside of AirBnB.
Btw, if you get messaged on WhatsApp out of nowhere just before your trip, it’s probably someone from “Youssef's Support Team”. Do check with them on AirBnb cause who knows these days.
The end
Nice place overall, but could use some improvements. I’d say it's overpriced until that happens.