Maria's location is perfect for exploring Porto! We ended up not needing our metro cards and walked everywhere we could have wanted to go! Maria was also very gracious and understanding about our travel plans that changed last minute due to flight issues out of the U.S. The apartment itself is much larger than expected, and very modern. Very nice to have the washer in the unit. The only things we weren't entirely thrilled about were the bed - very stiff (based onpersonal preference), the shower (grout build up around the edges, which really could use an update), and unfortunately our neighbors. Seems there were about 3-4 young women renting across the hall the nights we were there and we could hear them at all hours of the night, until 5am when they returned from night life. No fault of Mari'as but you can hear everything across the hall if your neighbors during the stay happen to be loud. All in all though, we were content with our stay and none of the above hindered our vacation.