Nice apartment but BRING EARPLUGS!!! Neighbor noise is unbearable.
PROS: The apartment is nice, clean and in a great location so it does have a lot going for it given those factors.
2 CONS:
1 CHECK IN: this was not as big of a con as #2 below but it would’ve been appreciated if the woman greeting us would’ve met us at the building door downstairs. The apartment is on the top floor and the elevators is VERY finicky and janky. The woman expected us to know how to work it somehow and it needed a key to use it. I finally had to insist she come downstairs to meet us after calling her several times. (Also note there is an extra cash fee upon arrival to her for laundry which we hadn’t experience before. This is inconvenient to the guests in my opinion because they expect you to remember to bring cash rather than wrapping it in your coat through AirBNB. But they did message us about this beforehand so we agreed to it.
#2 NOISE: THE BIGGEST PROBLEM we had with the space is the noise from the other apartments in the building. This AirBNB is on the top (5th) floor and the staircase inside is concrete and echoes like a cave. So any noise made in the other apartments in the building might as well be done right next to you. *Note: we sleep with a sound machine.
The first day/night there was a dog left alone in the apartment under us that barked all day and night and into the early morning the next day. It woke us up constantly and when I messaged the host about it she responded with an apology and said she would stop by but never let us know if the issue was resolved. We were grateful that the next night the dog did not bark but it was replaced by more disturbance.
our last night in the room we had a late dinner with friends and planned to sleep in before we headed out at check out time the next morning. We did not get to rest as we had hoped because starting at 8am an apartment on the first floor started hammering for 4 hours straight until we left at our checkout time. Again the halls are like a cave so the echos were so loud it might as well have been inside the apartment.
In conclusion, the apartment is nice but the noise issue is such a problem that if we come back to Florence we will not be staying at this AirBNB.