This apartment is lovely, nicely appointed with great dishes and cutlery, something that you don’t always find in rental apartments. It also had nice appliances and the view is beautiful. Having said that, we wouldn’t stay here again and due to no fault of the host but the location. First, you’re in the direct flight path of the airport which is no super big deal because the planes will eventually stop at night but the bigger issue is they are located right next to a park that has free range roosters and peacocks. Dozens of these loud birds. Those birds start making noise at 2 AM, not kidding. What happened to waiting until sunrise Mr. rooster?! One time it started at midnight but they quieted it down and waited until 3 AM to start the full on chorus of rooster crowing and it didn’t stop. Seriously, it did not stop. Despite us having a very comfortable bed and nice linens and pillows, when these birds started it was almost impossible to sleep, they are that loud and like I said, there is nothing you can do besides kill all those roosters and peacocks which is something we thought about every single night! All joking aside, I’d rather take a chance on the downtown locations where the drunks are usually asleep by 3 AM but to be awakened every night by these birds was crazy.
Also, the picture that shows that open viewpoint is the living room with windows that open, to us it looked like a covered terrace so I didn’t want anyone else to be confused like we were. Three of the four windows did not open because they’re being replaced, no problem there, but the terrace is 3 feet wide by probably 15 or 20 feet long alongside the bedrooms so you have a completely different view which also is nice but I did think the terrace was more the picture that they showed. Another note, the “arm chair“ is a leather chair that was incredibly uncomfortable. If you’re a kid it’s probably a blast because the minute you sit in it you slide out of it but as an adult it sucked. I had to stack up those two little beanbag foot stools they have and then drop a couple pillows into the chair so that I wouldn’t slide out while watching TV. By the way, they have a great HDTV TV set up with one mounted on the living room wall and another in the other bedroom that we did not use.
Fast Wi-Fi was a plus, they will give you the code when you check in so write it down in case you forget, it would be nice to have a house manual that listed some of that stuff. Also, when we checked in and asked the gentleman about grocery stores he seemed perplexed and told me it was a residential area to which I replied that the residents have to have a store to shop in, right? We found two grocery stores 10 to 12 minutes walk from the apartment, the first one is 10 and keep on going and the next one is just around the corner. There are also public buses available depending on which direction you go from the apartment so that’s nice to not have to rely on Uber which is wonderfully cheap but it’s nice to see the city from buses and the delightful trams and a €6.95 daily pass is great (buy it in a metro station)!
We have visited Lisbon many many times and loved the city and as much as we loved the view from this gorgeous apartment it wouldn’t be for us in the future.