The people managing this property are excellent and it's a shame that our experience was ruined, but nevertheless I feel that I should provide honest feedback.

We selected this property because it was in a good location. In good proximity to 'downtown' Porto but on a relatively quiet road with limited traffic. Jose was very good at responding to all of my initial enquiries and Maria, the property manager, was absolutely lovely when we arrived and each time we spoke to her.

The apartment is comfortable with good size rooms and effective air conditioning. The beds are very comfortable and the place was very nice and clean with some of the basics provided. My honest view about the amenities are:
1. The bath towels are tiny. I am 1.65m tall and they just about covered the top part of my body.
2. there is only one proper wardrobe in the whole apartment with some hanging space and it is in the hallway. The other rooms have open shelves but no cupboards. This might be ok for a quick visit but not ideal for longer vacations.
3. The air conditioning units have very bright blue lights built inside the system that cannot be turned off, so that they light up the entire bedroom at night. A strange phenomenon I hadn't come across before.

Week one of our two week stay was great. However in the second week, the giant crane positioned outside the living room terrace (which must have shut down for the holidays) roared into action, as did a cacophony of banging, sawing and drilling. This started at around 8:30am and continued until 7pm. Which is probably fine if you've had a big night out or you are out and about all day, but for us it was not acceptable. My five year old son found the noise very upsetting. So unfortunately on our one vacation of the year we had to move out and have the stress of finding somewhere else for the last 4 days of our vacation. Not great.

Jose was reasonable about the whole thing and offered to let us stay in another one of the company's apartment but unfortunately they were in the middle of downtown which would have been too noisy for us. The reason we chose to stay in Rua de Restauracao was because of the quieter location.

Bottom line: check before you travel that there is no construction unless you are not bothered at all by noise.