The Good: Great location in the Barrio Alto neighborhood with anything you could want to do a short walk away. Spacious, funky, well appointed apartment with in-line infinite hot water.
The bad: David (João’s friend who checked us in) left our group of 9 waiting on the very busy street with all of our luggage for 45 mins. We called well in advance of our arrival and let him know when we got to the front door. He said he'd be there in 15 mins...which turned into 45 minutes. Once he showed up, the check in went quite efficiently and he even offered us a complimentary bottle of port wine. He also told us that we could check out at the agreed upon 11am time, and just store our bags in the corner while we explored the city, returning to pick them up before we headed off to the airport. However, the next day after our group had made plans and split into 3 groups to divide and conquer Lisbon...I received a text at 10:50am saying he had made a mistake and we need to get all of our luggage out of the apartment by 11am because they had guests checking in at noon! Not everybody in the group had cell phones since we had agreed to meet back at the apartment at 2:30pm...so a few of us had to lug the entire groups luggage to a luggage storage place, which significantly impacted our plans for the day. This ended up costing us about 35 euro to store the luggage, which honestly wouldn't have been a big deal had we know the day before to plan on it. Some in our group complained of a faint sewage smell that was sort of masked by strong air freshening smells. I'm willing to write that off as a quirk of a very old building and we didn't spend much time in the place to be bothered by it anyways. It was also a little noisy at night, but not as much as one might expect for the prime night life location, and certainly worth the little bit of noise for the prime location.