I stayed at Studio of Casa do Pinheiro for nine nights and it was a great experience. The location is very convenient to the Metro interchange station of Trindade, is an extremely interesting 20–30 minute walk to the Ribeira, and is well placed for catching the various trams and buses. The apartment’s facilities (kitchen and bathroom) are compact, serviceable, and clean. The building is an older-style Portuense residence with magnificent granite beams and columns framing three shuttered French doors that lead to the narrow balcony. The neighbourhood is mostly residential and life plays out here in a very local manner—this is off the main tourist trail, but facilities are close by. Porto hardly needs any recommendation: it is one of the great small cities of the world and I can’t wait to get back.