São Domingos Flowers Apartments

Liliana and Carlos are wonderful hosts and managers of a really great set of guest apartments. Fully equipped (including the kitchen), spacious, very clean, quiet and perfectly situated in the center, these apartments are a wonderful place to discover the beautiful old town of Porto. We stayed in the Rose Apartment, which includes a lovely spacious patio area which opens out from the kitchen and living room. Air conditioning wasn't needed much despite the hot late-July weather, but it was a welcome sight to know it was there. Special thanks to Carlos and Liliananot only for welcoming us around midnight thanks to flight delays, but even allowed us a special check-in process the next morning so that we could rest and visit their amazing shop just below the apartments. If coming to Porto, I would highly recommend a stay with them here!

The 1 bedroom apt in the back is well located steps from major attractions which is very convenient. It is small but well priced. I did suffer from loud noisy neighbors on multiple nights and reported this to her at 2AM on the website. She said she sent them a message but the noise continued for multiple days. I was so tired I could not enjoy myself. The walls are thin and the stairs are very loud. Do not rent on the bottom because you will hear everyone walking up the stairs. You will hear them on the balcony as if they are next to you. In spite of this bad experience, I tried to stay positive as I know the buildings are old so I wrote a positive review of Liliana's apt. I am now changing it because we only learned how the host really felt about us after we left. She never complained to us while we were there about anything. She waited until we left and then said we 'broke rules' but did not tell us what rules we broke. There is no printed list of rules but suddenly only after we left, we were guilty. She said we left the doors open, however the door to the apt automatically locks when closed. The door to the building could be left open by anyone and yet I was blamed for this. When I saw the review, I tried to resolve this directly but I received no response as of the time I am writing this. She smiled to my face but it was disingenuous. She does not communicate well and then blames the guest for another guests behavior.