This is a comfortable 1 bedroom apartment in a great location for accessing all you might want to see in Porto. It is very central and an easy walk to everything

The apartment has been renovated in the last 3 years and is beautifully decorated, very clean and well set up. The décor is modern but a few nice light fixtures and items of furniture give the feel of an earlier period. Unlike some Airbnb apartments, you are not staying in someone's home but rather in a building with about 8 apartments that have been restored as rental accommodation.

Everything you need is provided except a washing machine. You can get your laundry done by their staff for a very reasonable cost but we prefer the flexibility of doing our own laundry.

There was one negative point for us: The only 2 windows look out over a very busy road. There is constant traffic including trucks, buses, and motorbikes (both day and night). The cobbled road surface makes for a lot of noise which echoes up between the tall buildings facing the street. It is particularly noisy after rain when the road surface is wet. We struggled to have a conversation at times.

The 2 lounge windows are double glazed and there are heavy wooden shutters - closing these shuts out nearly all the noise but this then leaves the apartment with no ventilation which is a problem due to its design (the bedroom has no outside windows and relies on ventilation coming via the lounge).

At night we closed the windows and shutters but it made the place very stuffy. I can imagine it being a problem on very hot/humid nights where you might really want to leave the windows open but then there is the noise. It might not be a problem for heavy sleepers.

We stayed in the "Verde" apartment and I think the noise issue would affect all of the apartments facing the road. I think there are a number of apartments that face out the back of the building and these would be much quieter I should think.

Luis and Eugenia were very helpful in all of our transactions and very accommodating of our arrival time etc. They provided some excellent travel information annotated onto a good map, including some suggested walks. A bottle of Port was left for our arrival - a nice touch.

In brief, a nice apartment in an excellent location, with very helpful hosts but we wouldn't choose to stay here again because of the traffic noise issues.