We were travelling with little kids and under the impression that this was "downtown" and with free parking around. But you need to pay to park in the street and move the car every 2 hours. There are paying parkings around but the closest ones are very old school and you need to pay with cash and tell in advance how long you are planning to stay. We ended up spending a lot of money in parkings that could have covered a better accommodation.
Downtown in Porto is tricky. The apartments are in the far end of the so called downtown. You have 20 minutes walking to the cathedral and 35 to the river with amazingly steep streets. So if you are travelling with elderly people or kids, this is not the place for you. Public transport is far and not convenient
About the apartment, we rented both of them. The description was not clear about the distribution of rooms. These are two absolutely independent apartments one in the first floor of the building and one, a duplex, in the second floor
The one in the first floor has two "rooms" without doors. One only contains a bed and nothing else fits. The other, with no window, has the bunk bed. It seems that the bed was there before building the walls! Otherwise it's difficult to have squeezed it inside that tiny space. There is also a sofa that turns into a double bed. Don't expect a good mattress. One bathroom only
The apartment in the second floor accomodates 4 people in the living room and 4 people upstairs but there is only one bathroom so be prepared to share
Not the best option for the kind of group we were. Wish we had spend more in a better location instead of on parkings and taxis