We loved our stay — What an amazing location!!! The apartment is outfitted with everything we needed. Fernando was an excellent host and provided many good suggestions for our stay and provided a good orientation of the property and area.
Make sure you arrange your airport or train station transfer with him — it’s just a few euro more than a taxi and so worth it just to make it easy as possible to find the apartment and learn about it.
There are many stairs to climb (about 4 flights between the condo and street), and we were bummed that the funicular wasn’t running … yet, all this added exercise was also worth the priceless views of the apartment!
It was so easy to walk around and find a bite, a drink, or a shop and a stroll across the Luis Bridge to Gaia was a breeze. It was easy and reasonable to order an Uber near the base of the bridge for those times when you’ve climbed too many steps that day.
Our only true complaint was that the bed was way too hard for our liking (sort of like sleeping on a box spring only). There were ample blankets and comforters at the apartment for us to make the best of it, and Fernando just ordered a new, modern mattress which will remedy this issue for all future guests.
If we are so fortunate to come to Porto again, we will seek to base at this apartment — it was one of our favorite AirBNB’s!