Lovely apartment, lovely location and lovely hosts but the experience was dampened significantly by noise and lack of sleep. There was either a constant loud banging/tapping from the kitchen at night, or noise from upstairs neighbours throughout the night and day. We barely slept and struggled to relax throughout our stay as a result.
The hosts engaged and empathised when we flagged the issues but there wasn’t much they could do beyond emailing the neighbours which led to no change, and saying they would investigate the source of the banging/tapping in future.
A shame because the Alfama neighbourhood, the apartment itself and its proximity to restaurants, bars etc is great, and the hosts were very nice and responsive. Consecutive evenings of disrupted sleep because of the noise mean that we sadly wouldn’t stay again though