LSA Palácio Camões by Numa

Location!!!!! Views from our window were amazing!

Having to lug our baggage up 4 flights of stairs!! We are not young anymore so very stressful and difficult to carry our stuff to the 4th floor.

The views. The location. The apartment was spacious, great aircon.

The bathroom was a little dark when you had the door closed, that is only minor.

Everything, couldn’t have been better. Apartments are very spacious and very quiet. You can’t hear any noise at all, perfect

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A spacious flat in a great central location with plenty of good restaurants and shops within easy walking distance. There is a wonderful view of the river from the main bedroom. The double glazing was very good at keeping out noise from the busy streets below.

Although the apartment has an overall good rating and looks good in the photos, hence why we chose it, having read some of the reviews we were rather trepidatious about what we might find. Unfortunately, most of the previous negative comments had not been addressed. The lift was not working when we arrived so we had to use an alternative entrance and then lug cases up to the 3rd floor. The code we were given for the access door did not work for the alternative access door and so we had to phone up for a new code. There are lockers (on the 3rd floor only - not as described by Numa) in case you arrive early as we did but less lockers than flats and each one will only take one suitcase so as a party of four we needed two lockers which cost us 15 euros to get more than 3 hours. Others tenants had to find lockers elsewhere. The photos make the apartment look much brighter than it really is. The main living space is quite dingy and some of the lights did not have working bulbs. The furniture is basic and the flat lacks any character. The internal bathroom did not have a working fan and was smelly so we just used the other bathroom that had a window. Both bathrooms had heated towel rails that you could not turn off, whatever the temperature outside. The air con in the main bedroom would randomly become really noisy so you would have to turn it off at night. The floors were not clean - we got black feet from walking around inside.