Metro Lapa House is a lovely old apartment which still retains what look like original features, while having modern facilities, two bathrooms and two bedrooms of roughly equal size. They are light and airy and overlook Boa Vista, a busy street that goes for over a Km to a Pensinsular War Memorial that is truly impressive. The apartment sits above a small supermarket. It was spotlessly clean with good beds and seating and a balcony.
Porto is a beautiful historic city. A photographer's Paradise. The People are friendly and polite and although not many appear to speak English, they will try to help you if asked . Food is great, very reasonably priced if you go off the grid of the tourist traps and we had some first class meals, made all the better by being inexpensive.

Porto suffers from a lack of signage, and you can easily get lost, until you get oriented. The streets are very steep in many cases. Anyone with mobility issues, would find a wheelchair difficult to use. Access to the lifts in the apartment block are restricted by seven steps straight insidec the door if the building. The lifts are small , and again would only just
take a wheelchair if you can get it up the seven steps first. Pavements can suddenly change level without any warning and the Kerbs are quite high. A Restaurant owner who came from Lisbon said of the Signage " Yes that is true, but we don't like to make our guests too comfortable" with her tongue planted firmly in cheek.
That said the Metro system,
which runs within 200M if the apartment at a station called Lapa again takes some time to understand because of poor signage, in steeet you have to know where it is to find it! The Metro is very modern, quick, frequent, clean and inexpensive to use . I recommend using it to get around if walking up or down steep inclines is a difficulty.
Porto is a great city, very family oriented, teeming with History, friendly, relaxed and refined. Loved it and will be going back, there is so much to see . Would be very happy to stay with Sara and Hugh again.
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