How a Vacation Rental in Alfama Earned 5 Stars with Professional Ironing

Imagine this: it's 9 PM on a Thursday in July, the air is warm and the living room of your house in Alfama smells of lavender (blame the automatic air freshener you bought in March and never replaced). Your phone buzzes with a notification that you, host of a new short-term rental, have learned to love and fear: last-minute booking. A couple from Bordeaux, check-in the next day at 2 PM. Reason for the trip? They came to see Triste para Sempre at Cinema São Jorge. And you, of course, still n...