Irene's apartment in Florence is truly lovely. The view of the Duomo is unforgettable and the location is very good. Irene was out of town so her parents met us at the apartment around 5:30pm. The apartment is up four flights of stairs which can be rather annoying if you're traveling with a lot of luggage. However, laying in bed with a view of the Duomo makes you forget about that climb. It is important to note that checkout is at 10am and at that time you need to be ready to leave with your luggage -- Irene was nice enough to let us leave our bags at the apt until 12pm, but after that we had to take our luggage and go. We are used to staying at hotels and having a place to store our luggage until our flight / train departs, so this definitely cut our time in Florence shorter than expected. If you plan to spend the day in Florence, plan to lock your luggage up at the train station (we found this to be too much a burden and moved on to the next city). Wifi worked well and Irene was available to answer texts if needed.