Where do you prefer to stay when travelling?
To stay in an hotel? A boarding house? Bed and Breakfast? Maybe an apartment/flat?
You can stay in one of the above flats (check their pages), but you can alternatively stay either in an hotel (you have all major known hotels) or in more traditional, mostly family run boarding houses or guesthouses. You’ll find the neat, clean, cosy type; the familiar clean but rather scanty type, and the somewhat not so clean, decayed, definitely cheap, where you never know what’s going to happen next type. (If you want to stay in one of these, just tell me and I’ll point the perfect one for you…)
Guesthouses/Boarding houses
Try for instance the Residencial Brasilia in an old building close to Praça da República, walking distance from Cedofeita, one of the traditional shopping streets in town. Quite between old, historical center and the modern center of Boavista.
There is also the Residencial Portuguesa, Travessa Coronel Pacheco 11, Tel.: 00 351 222 004 174 / 00 351 229 012 211. Very central, close to Clérigos Tower, close to “Piolho” the traditional Student’s Cafe.
Also in the center, on a beautiful street, you have the Pensão Cristal , also central, in an area which is becoming rather fashionable, near some interesting bares.
There are more, may more, therefore these are mere examples of what you can find in town.
Hostels
Black & White Hostel (B&W), Rua Barão de Forrester nº 944 4050-272 Porto, Portugal. Art, style and comfort for cool demanding travellers. Opened in August 2007, B&W is located in the centre of Porto, in a 19th century family house transformed in an Art house. B&W is located near Boavista, and near a metro station (Carolina Michaelis),and many buses. Walking distance to Casa da Musica, Cedofeita and Torre dos Clerigos. We provide clean and modern commodities (comfortable beds, hot showers 24 hours, with Internet for guests, lockers, a terrace and a garden) as well as inside information on Porto. Last but not the least, and although our high standards, B&W is the CHEAPEST hostel in Porto NO GROUPS OF MORE THAN 6 PERSONS
