Filipa greeted us on our arrival and was very kind, especially since we were arriving late at night. She showed us the apartment, gave us the keys and from then we were alone in the apartment for three days which was nice.

This apartment is all about location, as is said elsewhere, being a few minutes from the river and near the subway and train station. It is old and has a lot of charm and potential. Lots of sunlight, windows, old wooden floor, etc.

Now the problems: the room was a little bit different from what is shown on the pictures. Few furniture to put our things in (a small table shown in the picture and a small hanging rack), so had to keep most of it in our bags which wasn't much of a problem.

The real issue was the mattress, which was very uncomfortable. I was able to find a thick blanket that we added to the mattress and it ended up being ok for a few days. But an upgrade wouldn't be a luxury. Be aware if you have back problems and/or if you plan to stay more than a few days.

The apartment was invaded with ants, that ended up colonizing our shoes in the hallway. We didn't care much about that, I actually thought it was funny, but be aware of it if you don't like insects.

Other than that the neighbours were very noisy at the time we were there. One of them was doing construction works, starting early in the morning. At night others had a habit of argumenting loudly and shouting in the central courtyard (the window on the right, on the picture, leads there). And the train station is near, so much that we could hear all the noise coming from the trains and passengers. But this comes from being centrally located and obviously can't be blamed on the tenants.

We had the apartment for us for three days, which was a nice thing and given the location, we were able to really enjoy the city.

On the last morning we were told the next hosts would arrive in the afternoon, so we took our time packing our things. At 9:30 we heard someone coming in the apartment while having breakfast, we were a little startled by that, it ended up being a woman coming to do the cleaning and greet the next hosts. We rushed through breakfast and showers, the other hosts arrived meanwhile, the cleaning woman came in our room asking for the keys. We felt a little like being kicked out, so we left as soon as we could. We were told later by Filipa there had been a mistake with the reservations, but the situation was handled in a strange way.

Overall, we have mixed feelings about our stay in this apartment. For us, the disagreements were enough to make us choose another place to stay if we come back to Porto.