My wife and I chose to stay for seven nights at Lara and João's apartment because of it's good location, cosiness and apparent value for money. It was indeed a nice, cosy apartment, well equipped. The only real drawback was the very small shower. However, our stay became unpleasant when Lara and João allowed a painter to work for the whole of our second day at the apartment. The result was that the furniture, etc was coated by fine dust from the sanding of the walls and the smell from fresh paint was terrible. We immediately alerted our hosts but they were unresponsive and more interested in whether the painter had carried out all the work they required. We were worried about the paint being toxic. After a couple of days the smell of the paint diminished and by then we had cleaned up the apartment as best we could. The hosts were unwilling to refund the two days that we were worst affected. In summary, a cosy apartment, good location, but our hosts disappointed us.