Porto - advice please

[Devonboy]

Hi, I am planning to take the QP down to sunny Spain and come back via Lisbon and 2 nights in Porto.

Am looking for ideas on where to stay in Porto with good parking and the must do’s.

Many thanks

 

[3hcp]

https://www.torelavantgarde.com/en/hotel-overview.html

stayed here a couple of weeks ago, should fit the bill but very chaotic traffic so I wouldn’t be using the car in Porto itself.

 

[Ebenezer]

Has a great bookshop where Harry Potter was conceived. Also lots if port!
Wb

 

[MarkMas]

Has a great bookshop where Harry Potter was conceived. Also lots if port!
Wb

James and Lily Potter had sex in a bookshop in Porto in the autumn of 1979?!?!?

 

[CatmanV2]

Has a great bookshop where Harry Potter was conceived. Also lots if port!
Wb

Mr and Mrs Potter were shagging in a bookshop?!

C

 

[MarkMas]

OK this is getting weird, now.

 

[MarkMas]

I've now been reading up on the bookshop in question and it is very pretty.

You now have to book and pay about £10 to get in - presumably because of insane Harry Potter fans.

(I could not believe the mad lines of lunatics at Kings Cross waiting to have a stupid photo taken that I saw a few weeks ago.)

 

[MarkMas]

If you are in that part of the world and you like that sort of thing, I HIGHLY recommend the library at U Coimbra

https://visit.uc.pt/en/space-list/joanina

Which has VERY clever ladders built into the bookcases.