We stayed at Sara and Jorge's place for five nights in July. Jorge met us to take us to the apartment and we immediately felt so welcome. He offered to carry our cases up the stairs and spent a while explaining a lot of the lovely things to do in Lisbon, even sending us an email on the first day with more suggestions. The flat is so clean and well equipped, with shampoo and beautiful fresh towels and linen. It is also very nicely furnished with lovely touches like a reading lamp and books to read in a variety of different languages. The apartment is incredibly cool and has such clever use of space. It has been designed so well to use all the space available and it seemed unbelievable in a tiny flat that there was ample clothes hanging space in the apartment for clothes! However, as much as we liked all these things and enjoyed a great time in the city, we must add a word of warning - the apartment might not suit people who feel claustrophobic. It's at the top of an old building so you enter the apartment via pretty steep flights of stairs, then you have to take some more, almost vertical stairs to get into the apartment (you sort of have to climb up with hands and feet!). When you are up inside the apartment, you have to 'slide' the trapdoor into place to cover the stairs you have just climbed. If you try to leave the trap door open in order to feel less claustrophobic, you risk forgetting about the hole and falling down the stairs but when the trap door is pulled into place to cover the steps it can feel quite strange and claustrophobic having no door in the apartment at all. And although attic apartments can be very charming and atmospheric, this one has very low ceilings - we had so many bumps to the head! One other thing to note is that if you're visiting in the summer months, it gets very stuffy and hot on warmer nights. We were pleased that some reviews said it was nice and breezy but the apartment does get really hot and although you can open the window wide, the vibrant and charming Alfama district is quite noisy. Most nights we were out joining in the 'Fado' but when you want to sleep for an early start the next day, open windows equals lots of music! One band had a lot of stamina and they went through about three solid hours of choral pop music whilst we were trying to nod off... Anyway, we loved the city and it's a sweet apartment. We want to thank Jorge again for his kindness and hospitality.