FEMALE TRAVELLERS BEWARE!!! First of all the property owner has terrible communication and is rude beyond belief. I asked her for the instructions for check-in, she did not give it to me until 8 PM the night before I was arriving. She then demanded that I pay her the Lisbon traveller fee in cash or using a foreign app that I clearly would not have, THE MOMENT I checked in. After haggling about the method, I left cash in the lockbox and she never provided a receipt. What she did do was KEY INTO THE ROOM while I was absent to leave dirty money on the bed (the difference of the fee).
The area is Martim Moniz. Yes it is 10 minutes to Rossio Square, but to get there you have to cross through a run-down area filled with questionable people and garbage everywhere. One morning I walked out and it looked like the people left an all night crackfest. I took a wrong turn one night onto a street called “Rua Do Benformoso”. It was filled with hundreds of non-Portuguese men hanging out in the street doing NOTHING … not a woman, child, or elderly person in sight.
As for the actual apartment, there is a window that doesn’t lock, a tattered mini sofa bed with ratty comforter, shower that doesn’t drain properly and backs up, and a thin film of dust on the floor. The apartment must be locked with a key from the inside! God forbid there’s a fire or a break-in or something else requiring you to leave quickly. You better keep that key handy!
Do not recommend at all!
