Everything about this experience was fabulous. Savino was fabulous, helpful, real, and kind. The units (we used both rooms - one for us, the married couple, the other for our 15 year old son) were impeccable - modern and beautifully appointed.
Out and about in Florence, and completely unrelated to the Savino experience, do watch out for pick pockets on the 22 bus running near the plaza outside of Savino's unit towards the historic center, and elsewhere. The 22 bus was not crowded on the afternoon we took it but this did not keep a slight older woman with sunglasses from sidling next to me and inserting her adept small hand, formed into a duck bill shape, into my right side cargo shorts pocket with Velcro closures. Feeling her deft pocket probe, I knocked her hand aside. She got nothing.
So, lesson learned, watch out, even in beautiful Florence. There are people here, as elsewhere, working the tourist crowds.
Sorry for this aside, which I hope does not in any way detract from Savino's fabulous home and hospitality. Thank you Savino.