Where to begin....Our host was very friendly and very welcoming. The apartment was probably the nicer of the 8 that exist in the building since it has a high vaulted ceiling. It was beautiful! Here are the downsides. We stayed on a weekend night and it was a party zone till 5:30 am after which daily life in downtown Porto began. Sounds reverberate through the old downtown and we listened to many a conversation. You are located across from a church which gives you some added dongs every bit, plus the streetcar passes right in front. Even though we were 4 stories up, kind of a trek up a narrow winding staircase. To top things off, the neighboring building had applied polyurethane on it's remodel and the stench carried over making it impossible to stay in the room without opening the veranda doors. It gave us the added noise factor. I think we slept only two hours tops.