Eight important tips you should know when start searching for Students rooms to rent in Porto.
Learn eight important tips that will help you choose student rooms to rent in Porto..
Tip number one, check if the ad students rooms to rent has photos
This is very important, you need to know the looks and feel of the room you are going to live in the next semester.
Does the room looks nice and well painted with furniture or does it look like an old room? Is it spacious or not?
Does it look to be warm and makes you feel like its comfortable place to live in or not?
Tip number two, check if students rooms to rent has internet.
Some rooms in apartments or houses don´t have internet, internet its very important in our days, you need it for studying, communicating with your family and friends.
Some houses or apartments will charge you an extra fee ( around 60 to 90 Euros extra or even more ) for internet, electricity and gas.
So remember to check, if the apartment or house has all these features and if they are included in the price.
Tip number three, check if the students rooms to rent has heating system for the winter.
Winter can be very hard in Portugal, specially between the months of December to January, old houses and apartments, specially in city center aren’t very well prepared for the winter.
Its important for your comfort and if you are going to live in Porto, to know if the house has heating system or its prepared for the hard winter, before you do finally decide which students room to rent.
Tip number four, your student rooms to rent , should be in a private house or apartment or should you choose to live among other students?
Well, it depends on what you are looking for. If you want someone always controlling your moves and have a lot of freedom limitations then you should chose a private house.
But if you want to live with other students in an academic environment, meet students from other countries, have parties in the house, then when you chose your student rooms to rent in Porto you should chose to live among other students
Tip number five, chose the location strategically of your student rooms to rent in Porto
There are two important things you need to look at, one is how far is your student rooms to rent in Porto from you University and be aware that a great majority of the universities are located in the city surrounding areas.
The second thing is, If you would chose a room in city center, where the traffic is very high in the early hours of the day as well as the end of the working day, then that would make you get up much more earlier to get on time to the university to not miss the first classes.
So if you chose to live in a place that’s not exactly the city center but that you can have metro and bus that take you to city center fast whenever you need and is near the university where you have to go many times might be a better solution.
Besides Porto surrounding areas are much more safe areas to live. Finally, important points you have to look is transportation access and the area around ( is it safe area? Do i have supermarket?etc)
Tip number six, does your student rooms to rent in Porto includes transportation from the airport to the accommodations?
If you like to save your money, this is an important tip, in some cases the owners wait for the students at the airport and give a free ride from the airport to the accommodations, that will make you save between 30 euros to 50 euros, remember to ask when you chose your student rooms to rent in Porto if they do that.
Tip number seven, before you chose your student rooms to rent in Porto, ask for other students testimonials.
Its important to know other students experience, if they enjoyed their accommodations then its more likely that you will enjoy it too.
Its normal some students writing about their time in Erasmus program or leave a post or comment on Facebook page.
Check the accommodations Facebook page, if they have a Facebook page, would be good idea and see other students comments and posts.
Tip number eight, ask about owners experience in student rooms to rent in Porto.
Finally the number eight tip, last but not least important then the others, ask about owners experience in student rooms to rent in Porto.
The more experience the more professionals people tend to be.
Avoid rent a room to a owner that has less then two years experience.
Searching for house or apartment with student rooms to rent in Porto?
Check our student rooms to rent in at Nazdrowia House at www.erasmusroomsporto.com and also check in the “other rooms” in this site menu tab.
Or our Second Floor apartments with student rooms to rent in Porto. May be the perfect solution for you. Check at www.studentroomsporto.com
Finally you can contact us, because we certainly can help you with a variety of rooms to stay in Porto.
We have several possibilities for you that are strategically located in the city, free internet (no extra fees charged), academic friendly environment and much more!
Remember to book your room early on!…enjoy your Erasmus!