We enjoyed our stay here very much. The apartment is a big and bright top floor of a building of serviced apartments. (3 Euro floors, no lift) the bedroom is on the entrance floor and although it faces the street is very very quiet. We were there during the São João festival which is incredibly noisy and were able to shut it out completely once we got tired. The bed and pillows were very comfy and we slept great. You go upstairs and then you have the whole top floor of the building with a nice terrace over the street and the kitchen at the back looking over other buildings. The kitchen is fully equipped with oven, microwave, cook top and all the things you need to cook with. Also a laundry machine which is pretty rare. They did not however provide basics such as salt/pepper/sugar/cooking oil. There were a few coffee pods for the nespresso machine and a couple of sugar packets and tea bags but that was it. Some other commentators mentioned a sewer smell in the bathrooms but we did not experience that. Our hosts were very communicative leading up to our stay and allowed us to check in a couple of hours early due to our travel plans which was great. Joanna met us at the unit and helped us to get comfortable and suggested some things to do and places to eat etc. I can recommend this unit and I think it would be great for a long term stay too . We only had three days but I could see being comfortable there for a long period if needed.