This is a wonderful apartment! It is spacious and light in an amazing location, with lovely stripped wooden floors and comfy beds. The views are fantastic, over all the rooftops to the castle and the water, with the front windows and then the lovely little kitchen balcony for your morning coffee. In the daytime the lane is a quiet back-street, but then at night it totally comes alive with all the bars and restaurants. But the apartment is a complete haven - the great thing is that you are right in the middle of everything in the Bairro, but then you can escape upstairs and it is quiet and cool and away from it all. And even in mid-August it is nice and cool up there at night. We loved it. The rooms are great and our teenagers had a great time being upstairs in the roof and away from us. The are two loos but only one shower - we were a party of 6 and found this absolutely fine, you get a bit ore organised about when people want to take one. The bars and restaurants around are really nice - Rui recommended to us the Casa India for our first lunch (down the bottom of the lane to the main road and just over on the left) - a really great lunch with the Portuguese favourites like sardines and grilled meat. Highly recommend. Then we went to another small place on our last night one block up the lane on the other side, on a corner - Alta Bota. All great. Lots of good Caipirinhas around too!
This is a great place to stay...