We choose this apartment because of the bedrooms, bathrooms, its quiet fairly central location and the large lounge area with plenty of seating for a large group and all six of us were pleased with our choice and enjoyed our stay.
The open plan lounge and dining area are very spacious. There is a separate kitchen. From the lounge there is a door to a separate corridor with the bedrooms.
Like some of the other reviews say, the apartment does not have any particular view or outdoor space and the immediate area is a bit run down and dull but quiet and safe and within less than 5 minutes walk, you are amongst some shops, cafes and restaurants, so it did not bother us.
It’s 8 minutes uphill walk north of Trindade station and we were okay doing that walk with small suitcases. Waking from the apartment, down past Trindade, you soon start approaching more of the tourist areas and we could probably reach the Harry Potter bookshop and the tower which many tourists climb within about 20 mins. Obviously waking back to the apartment is a bit uphill but anyone with an okay level of fitness should be fine.
There’s a direct metro to the airport from Trindade (the metros are about every 20 mins so even though the actual journey time is about 35-40 mins, it took us almost 2 hours from landing to get through the airport, buy a ticket and we had to wait 20 mins). The return journey was much quicker as we knew the metro times.
The two double bedrooms have en-suite showers and toilets and then there is an additional shower and toilet room and a further additional toilet. We struggled to have more than two showers running hot water at the same time so it took us longer to get ready but it was still useful to have several shower rooms.
There are air conditioning units in every room (two in the lounge/diner) which can also be used as heaters which was useful in February.
The photos are very accurate.
Communication with the host was very quick and easy.