Rita's apartment is true to the photos. It's light, bright, spacious and very well equipped. While not in the very centre of the city, the area has plenty going on with bars and restaurants and the trendy LX factory all close by. We mostly used the train to get around, the station is a few minutes away and takes you to the centre of Lisbon in 5 minutes, we also used the train to visit the beach of which there are numerous around 20-30 minutes away. The only drawback for light sleepers would that there was some street noise from people and bars at the weekend, that aside it's a great choice for a trip to Lisbon and Rita and Maria are great hosts.