Our family spent 5 days at Joana's place in Sintra. We found it was perfectly located within walking distance to town (up a very steep hill!) in a beautiful old building . Joanas mum greeted us and was very accommodating about our delayed arrival time. The apartment itself was clean and they had even made up a cot for our son, however it did smell quite musty although this may be due to us being one of the first guests of the year. Unfortunately for us in late April/early May the house was just too cold - the three small heaters were not really sufficient and we had to go and buy more warm clothes for our kids! Appreciate it does say on the listing there is no heating but it would have ben good to have a heads up so we could have packed appropriately! There is no washing machine but the maid who works below very kindly did a wash for us.