The apartment is small and quirky, but it has beautiful views and is in a great neighborhood. Cassie, the property manager, is excellent to work with. We rented a car, and the drive to Cascais is only a few minutes, Lisbon is just 25 minutes away, and Sintra is only 10 minutes away. The drawbacks of this place is that for non-smokers, the smoke smell is terrible. I guess we had overlooked that smoking is allowed in this apartment. Also, the mattress in the main bedroom is very hard, which made sleeping uncomfortable for my husband who has back pain. Overall, though, it worked well for our week in Portugal.