Ok.. I’m going to be real honest!
This location can’t be beat! It’s in the heart of everything and makes this amazing city of Porto easily accessible. The communication with Sara was excellent. She was quick to get back to me with any questions and made our check in extremely easy.
The apartment is very spacious, with lots of closet space and adorable balconies. There’s a great view of the Cathedral out the back window!
Here are the downfalls...
If noise is an issue when you sleep... look elsewhere. If you don’t mind a guy singing at the top of his lungs at 4am, or a guy who thinks he can play the accordion until the wee hours of the morning... you’ll be fine! The bedrooms face the street, and I suggest you have ear plugs or use a sound machine. I read the prior reviews and was prepared!
The bathrooms.. I can not believe no one has mentioned this in reviews in the past or maybe they just remodeled them and have yet to finish, but the bathrooms need immediate attention. The small bathroom had the soap to the sink on the back of the toilet... sitting next to the toilet paper. This is because of a lack of a soap dish and toilet roll holder. There was also no place to hang your damp towels, as there are zero towel racks! We had to drape them over furniture. You can tell where towel racks use to be, but nothing was put back in place. There was no shower curtain in the large bathroom which resulted in water all over the bathroom floor. Four days of showers does not help a one wet bath mat dry out. There was also no place to place your toiletries. A small shelf or hook on the bathroom door would have been helpful. We literally dragged a small table from the living room into the bathroom just to have a place to set our stuff. The bathrooms were extremely disappointing.
Want to wash your clothes? The unsanitary journey to the pigeon poop door to the laundry room is unacceptable. We decided to wait. It was that gross. The laundry room is located on the back corner of the balcony where two pigeons have decided to call it home. I took a photo. The pigeons need eviction and that area needs to be cleaned.
All in all... We throughly enjoyed our stay in Porto and this place has sooooo much potential, but it lacks simple details and frankly, I expect more out of an Airbnb at this price!!!