Pros:
* Central location on a (mostly) pedestrian-only street
* Directly above many restaurants and bars
* 10 min walk to Continente center with multiple grocery stores
* Beautifully renovated Apartment - brand new kitchen, aesthetic bathrooms
* Tons of natural light
* Views of pedestrian street below
* 20% off discount to the really nice restaurant below
Cons:
* Furnishings and homewares were of very cheap quality; Complete 180 from the niceness of the apartment itself; this is a common theme throughout the cons.
* Multiple miscommunications that left us confused and frustrated. This is another common theme
* A single small, dull cutting knife
* Cheap plastic-handled flatware
* Basket of processed sweets and alcohol; Would have preferred kitchen essentials like oil, salt/pepper, or coffee
* Uncomfortable less-than-single beds. You can feel the springs in the mattress. Beds were short and my wife complained that her feet hung off the bed (She’s 5’7”). When pushed together, it's like an American queen with a rigid crack in the middle.
* No top sheet. There was a fitted sheet but no top sheet, only a duvet.
* No washer / dryer in the apartment or access to washer / dryer in the building.
* No system in place to have bedding replaced on longer-stays.
* We got a cleaning as “...a cuddle from us, for your wife. As a woman, I know we like to be cared for.” We were confused about the implication that getting clean bedding was my wife’s responsibility.
* The cleaning lady only changed the fitted sheets and pillow cases in one room. None of the duvet covers (the part that was against our bodies) were changed. Upon reaching out to Ana about this, she brought us a tray of towels.
* The street musicians are loud and the reverberations make the main area of the house very hard to be in. We went into the bedrooms to concentrate on work.
* The wifi was slow (at first). Ana did quickly arrange to have it upgraded so this is both a pro and con. She told us she had chosen the cheapest option. I would expect the internet will be downgraded again. If you need high speed internet, I would check before booking.
* The check-in was almost a fail - we got our check-in codes with just a couple minutes to spare.
* The bathroom fans are loud and run all the time.
For a long-stay, we would not recommend this apartment for working from home. It was very expensive and did the not meet the standards of quality or comfort we would expect for this price range. If you are only in Porto for sightseeing and don’t care about sleeping in single beds or cooking at the house, and don’t mind the reverberations of the street performers, you may have a different experience.