1) Location is excellent. To the station Sao Bento - 3 minutes, to the metro station 1 min. To the bridge Luis I - 2 min, to Ribeira - 5 minutes down. To the streets of Santa Catarina and Formoza (where the pedestrian zone with good shops is located) is 7 minutes on foot.
2) Place is calm, on Google street view everything looks more strange than it really is. The entrance is quiet and clean. The house is renovated and electrical wiring and plumbing in good condition. Just in case, there are fire extinguisher.
3) Place is quiet, as far as it can be in the old town.
There are no restaurants below on this street and it's a plus!
(although a million cafes and restaurants are on the neighboring streets, just walk 10 minutes walk to him) Nobody is sitting on the pavement until midnight and does not play the guitar. However, this is not a village house, sometimes cars passing by in the next street are audible.
Just do not go to bed very late, get up at 7 am and go to the bridge to meet the sun or rub it on the fog on the Douro. Seagulls wake up with the sun and fly along the street at the level of the 3rd floor and these birds meow loud. And at 8 am you will be awakened by a bell at Sé do Porto
4) The house has a large wardrobe with hangers for your clothes, as well as a chest of drawers and bedside drawers for things. In the kitchen there is a refrigerator, a microwave oven, a capsule coffee machine, a cooking induction cooker with an extractor and an oven, a washing machine. There is a folding dryer for clothes. Pots, pans, plates, cups and cutlery are.
Carefully check the size of the capsules and buy in the store needed (Minipreco or Pingo Doce). In Porto, there are a lot of places where people drink coffee, but the first cup in home is very tasty! There are guest umbrellas, we thought that it would be hot and did not take their own. It turned out in May in Porto there are cloudy and rainy days.
5) We were in the beginning of May, at night the temperature in the street fell to 10 graces. In the house was not hot, but there are heaters and warm blankets. It seems to me that in summer this stone house will not get very hot.
6) If you need something, ask Charles. For example, we did not find an iron. Charles lives somewhere nearby, he is very sociable and will help you. Charles brought us an iron very quickly.