The flat is new and located in a nicely gritty part of Porto where real people live... and the cobblestones are noisy in the morning with heavy traffic. While cunningly designed, the flat can feel cramped. The bed takes up maybe 85 pct. of the bedroom, for example, so the luggage ends up in the living room, and it feels cramped too. The enterprising hosts, though handy with Google Translate, didn’t communicate much with these English speakers.