Bernardo's place is a sunny, spacious apartment for two people with an old-school vibe. The kitchen is supplied with the basics and it is situated between Lisbon and Cascais. He was very kind and thoughtful to provide us with a baby crib, high chair, and other baby accessories for my 1.5 year old. Our stay, however, was dampened by a few issues, the main one having to do with the shower and lack of communication and responsiveness on Bernardo's end. As a warning, the shower is very narrow and small, which turned out to be the least of our problems. We stayed at the apartment for 6 nights and the shower only worked properly for 1 out of 6 nights due to drainage issues (leaving us to 30 second showers, which did not get attended to for 3 days due to lack of communication) and then after that was fixed, the hot water went out, which did not get attended to until the day after Bernardo was notified. We had to heat up water on the stove to bathe the baby. On top of all the shower issues, although the neighborhood is very quiet, there is a fenced in soccer court directly outside the bedroom window and on 3/6 nights people were playing soccer at 1am being very loud, yelling, blasting music, so we did not get a good sleep and also made it hard on the baby's sleep too. There was a lack of preparation for our stay as there was sand on the floor throughout the apartment, gas was not checked for the hot water, trash cans were not lined, ants were in the kitchen and there was no dryer as was advertised on the listing (washer and dryer is a big deal when you have a baby!)
I'm sure Bernardo is a very nice man, as many of the reviews have positively reflected. He understood that our stay was hindered by the many issues we had and he kindly offered to compensate us because of the inconvenience and troubles it caused. However, I have made several attempts to follow up on the compensation he suggested, and still after two weeks he has not replied to the messages, therefore has not followed through with compensation that he offered. This has made a lasting negative impression on our experience and stay at Bernardo's apartment.