Lovely light and airy apartment! Distant view of the Graca Church and São Jorge Castle and although not an area where we spent our days / evenings, it was relatively close to the main spots - Rossio (10 min walk) and Bairro Alto (20 min walk) Martim Moniz metro station was less than 5 mins from the apartment so if you don't want to walk to the other areas, the metro was easily accessible too!
Andre was on hand from the moment I booked and helped with directions and gave us plenty of local recommendations which was great to have to hand. Very easy to get to from the airport too!
We were also left some pastel de nata (egg tarts!) and a bottle of wine which was a lovely touch.
Despite all this, I did have a few issues....
- I'd actually booked the apartment through an alternative site which was cheaper - but host cancelled and had to rebook through airbnb instead. Andre explained the issue with the other site but it was still frustrating considering it cost me £100 more to book the same apartment!
These 2 points I totally acknowledge are out of the hosts control but wanted to flag anyway...
- The upstairs neighbour snores very LOUDLY, which kept me awake and had to sleep in the living room for some of the nights. Bring ear plugs just in case!!!
- Building work outside the kitchen and bathroom window. Builders could stare right in so had to get fully dressed just to walk around in the morning. Bring a robe if you have one or check how long the building work is going to continue for before you book (noise wasn't really an issue from the building work as we were up and out by 830am most days anyway)
All in all, it was a lovely stay in Lisbon and Andre was a great host.