The flat was spacious and easy to find and access, very bright and pretty quiet, considering the central location. All very clean, and an excellent TV system, which allowed us to access all normal UK services, such as BBC1/2. ITV. C4 etc. Aldi next door great.A microwave woud have been useful. The bed was not too comfortable, and the two towels provided were of poor quality. We asked Filipa how far the hotel was from the station. She told us it was 2 mins on the Metro, and 7 mins on foot. She must be an olympic athlete! I took us 25 minutes walking up very steep cobbled streets to the flat, we were dragging two suitcases, and are both 74, so youngsters might do it in 15 mins. The specified time on the Metro is indeed two minutes, but that is the time on the train, and ignores the 9 minute walk to and from the Metro station. Also if the steepness of the walk had been mentioned, we would have taken the Metro, but by the time we discovered the problem we were way past the Metro statio