We stayed here for 7 nights and here are the NEGATIVES:
1. No mention is made that this place is on a pedestrian street located about 100 steep steps down and another 100 meter walk from the place where a taxi or Uber will drop you off. This is a major issue if you have weak knees and/or are coming with heavy luggage.
2. No mention is made that when your eventually find the front door (not an easy task, especially if you arrive after dark), you have to climb up 5 floors worth of steep and narrow stairs to this attic space apartment. The verticals of these stairs in this 500 year old building are higher than usual. The horizontals are narrow and a tripping hazard.
3. The bathroom and kitchen need a full renovation. The toilet wobbles and is NOT firmly attached to the floor. It is old and small. The toilet area has a constant BAD ODOR. The shower ceiling is sloped and unless you're 5'8" you're going to have to duck to shower. In 7 days of staying there we only showered twice... at other times opting to heat water on the gas stove and use towels to wash ourselves in the kitchen and kitchen sink. The hot water runs out after a while and you're going to have to wait for the heater to reheat it again (a problem is you like long showers). The hot water faucet in the sink only delivers cold water. Both sink faucets leak and in 30 seconds your feet are soaking wet with the drips. The toilet sometimes runs and runs unless you're careful to monitor it after every flush and adjust the flush lever.
4. The bed is very hard. My wife was not at all happy sleeping on it.
5. The TV screen is broken and the picture is not visible in the top portion of it.
6. There are 5 ceiling light fixture bulbs that do not work, causing the place to have inadequate lighting.
7. The kitchen windows back to an area where people hang out after dark to drink and chat and it can get loud.
8. There is no central AC nor heat. We had to rely on their plug in units.
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And here are the POSITIVES:
This place has AMAZING VIEWS OVERLOOKING OLD TOWN ALFAMA, CRUISE SHIPS & DAILY SUNRISES... It also has a great walk score and central to everything!!! If you dislike a lot of stair climbing, bad bathroom odor, cold showers, hard beds.... best look for something else UNTIL these items are addressed by the host.
Hope this helps :)