It’s on a little road halfway up the Bica tram hill, so you need to be able-bodied to reach it.
Location is convenient with Baird Alto at the top of the Bica, Chiado to the right, and Cais do Sodre Station at the bottom.
The tram line is popular with tourists who congregate outside its many tiny bistros and bars. It’s buzzy at night but we weren’t disturbed by rowdiness. The apartment is on the fourth floor of an old building with an elevator going to the third floor and twenty stairs to walk up.
All promotional photographs are accurate, though the apartment now needs a coat of paint on the walls and woodwork. Kitchen is equipped for simple meals. Dishwasher, washing machine, central heating. No shutters on the huge front windows so might get very hot in summer. It’s a perfect and sunny winter escape from the U.K.
It’s a lovely space to be in and we stayed there happily for five weeks and will go again. Joanna, the manager, is efficient, caring and clever.