Obrigado a tudos especially Lourdes, and the cleaning staff, Kyle and Carlos for being available and helpful with me practicing Portuguese and everything else whenever they were on duty. The place was extremely clean for the amount of traffic passing through. Rooms, bathrooms and common/work areas were always well-kept.
Obrigado ~
The only problems were the intermittent WiFi - My SIM's Data got maxxed out and I had to go to cafes or restaurants or other hostels to get work done and that got costly. The city was extremely expensive, which everyone arriving mentioned, "It's far more expensive than I was expecting," or comments to that effect.
I was surprised staying a month didn't allow or supply any discounts, but they did my laundry for free but that wasn't close to a 1% discount so I only stayed 3 weeks - that's all I could afford.
Sicals, tavernas, cafes and other local restaurants and Uni/college or "dive bars", like Esapcio 77 are everywhere offering a wide range of plate lunches or dinners, grocery chains like Pingo Doce, Continente and others have meal deals,broiler chickens as well or buying and cooking your own - and once again, having access to a kitchen was vital.
They could use another refrigerator as so many for only one medium refrigerator wasn't sufficient during high season when I was there.
Still, I was extremely lucky to finally have a fully operational kitchen - which some of the other hostels DON'T have, and places to unwind, relax and work, when WiFi wasn't on the FRITZ.
Additionally, the location was perfect for the Porto Femme and Beast International Film Festivals and the MIMO Music Festival as well as dozens of other attractions. The energy at Travel & Live was outstanding, especially my first 10 days there. People starting or finishing El Caminho Porto to Santiago de Compostela, Spain were a wealth of information for when I do some of all of varying routes.
I'd definitely stay at Travel & Live again, and hopefully WiFi issues will have been resolved. Perhaps it's an issue in Portugal, as my first hostel and where I am currently in Nazaré have been having major connection problems all hours of the day?
That's why this review is so late~