I was given an address via AirBNB to stay, which contains a street name and what it seems a house number and then right next to it 2 DTO, which looks like this:
Rua Person's Street Name Here 8 2 DTO
Searching for the right place among similar apartment buildings late in the evening could leave me sleeping in the street. I was confused whether the house number is 82 or 8, plus Apt. 2. Owners giving such directions to foreigners is probably insufficient. I could not find anywhere on the internet what DTO means in Portugal.
When I asked the owner, they added Lote number to it, example: Lote 50, which was not in their AirBNB page instructions (directions) to begin with. So now I have 8 (Lote 50) 2 DTO in Lisbon. They wrote that "2" means 2nd floor (how informative) and DTO means "right side". Without knowing it on AirBNB would send at least some foreigners sleepless. Or at least wandering into neighbours asking what it is while already close to midnight hour.
Also, I wonder whether Portuguese SECOND FLOOR (2 DTO) is located right above the ground floor, which sometimes is called as FIRST FLOOR (in the USA) or is it like in the UK actually a Third Floor? Not wanting to wake up neighbours at night looking for the right door to enter.
