This is a very nice and large apartment recently remodeled. It is close to a major supermarket, and several smaller ones, and restaurants. On Wednesday when we arrived, there was an open air market where we bought the most beautiful vegetables, fresh bread, and local cheeses for dirt cheap and everything lasted for our entire stay. Our host Luis even picked us up at the airport, and drove us to the apartment to show us how everything worked, and asked many times if there was anything he could do for us - wow what great service! This is a neighborhood of locals apartments, not tourists, but we walked to many places in the near area and felt safe. We took the train into Lisbon - about a 25 minute ride, to the main station, where you can catch the Metro/subway (or a bus to anywhere in Portugal), then took the subway to a part of Lisbon we wanted to walk around. The train and subway are very efficient, and we bought a Zap card right at the train station in the automated vending machine - so easy! The Zap card gives you a discount from the cash price of any of the bus, train, or subway rides within Lisbon. Also, from this apartment, you are about 8 minute ride by train to the area of Sintra - many castles, palaces and museums to see with tons of great restaurants too. Although out of town some, this was a superb apartment, in an average neighborhood.