30 min
30 min
35 min
D
1.5 / km²
1 - one reason for the Avoid verdict
5
520 - one reason for the Avoid verdict
−15% vs city
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Staying in Paranhos
Paranhos is where Porto keeps its institutions: the university campus, Hospital de São João, the IPO cancer centre, the halls of residence and the football stadium's northern approach. The yellow line D runs straight down it into Aliados in about eight minutes, and a room costs less than the same star rating in the Baixa. Those two facts are why people book here by accident, usually from a map that shows the metro and not the walk.
The walk is 30 minutes and uphill on the way home. There is nothing in the parish that a visitor crossed a continent to see, the hotel stock is chain rooms bolted to hospital and campus buildings, the cheapest of them inside a hospital shopping gallery, and in August, when the students go home, the streets that do have life in term time have none.
Book here only if your trip is to the hospital or the university. Otherwise the saving buys you an hour a day on the metro.
What works
- Yellow line D reaches Aliados in about eight minutes
- The cheapest rooms in the city for the same star rating
- The right base if the trip is to Hospital de São João or the university
What does not
- Nothing in the district that a visitor would cross the city for
- A 30-minute walk to Aliados, uphill on the way back
- Hotel stock is chain rooms attached to campus and hospital buildings
- Empty in August once the students have gone