Since each room at the Lisbon Story Guesthouse is unique and tells its own "story", the owners give guests the option to choose the room that's right for them. Calçada is the Portuguese, cobblestoned pavement that was brought from the Greeks and Romans in antiquity. This compact bedroom has sloping ceilings and sky lights, a private shower bathroom, and accesses the communal terrace on the same floor.

Guests are welcome to use the communal kitchen with fridge, microwave, 2 electric hob, dishwasher & dining table. There is a chill-out, shoe-free lounge overlooking Rossio square with a book exchange and computer with internet access.

The Rossio area is the liveliest square in the city, where people stop to sit and relax, or for a drink at the several atmospheric cafes with outdoor sitting (the most popular is the art deco Café Nicola on the western side). On either side of the square are two baroque fountains, and in the center is a monument measuring 27 meters in height. It consists of a pedestal with marble allegories of Justice, Wisdom, Strength, and Moderation, qualities attributed to Dom Pedro IV, whose statue stands on top of the monument. In the 19th century the square was paved with cobblestones in wave patterns, a design seen today in many other pavements all over Portugal, and that has spread to Portugal's former colonies from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to Macao (China). On the north side of the square is the Dona Maria II National Theater, a monumental neoclassical building built in the 1840s. The portico has six Ionic columns (originally from the Church of St. Francis, destroyed in the 1755 earthquake), and crowning the pediment is a statue of playwright Gil Vicente.