Very good apartment, excellent location. Host Stefano was reliable and conscientious and quick to respond to text messages (response to emails was sometimes a little slower, but not unacceptably so). He kindly gave us a list of restaurants in the area that he liked (one or two of which we ate in and also liked). The apartment is largely as pictured on Airbnb. The living room was smaller than it appeared in the photos, but the bedrooms were actually considerably larger than they looked, and quite large by the standards of an average U.S. home. (This refers to the photos that were available on Airbnb as of mid-summer 2015; it’s possible that the photos might be changed in the future, of course.) Even the smallish living room wasn’t “small” by most standards; although it had furniture placed around in a way that made it seem a little crowded, it was still about 12 feet deep by 20+ feet wide (rough eyeball estimate). And, best of all, all the ceilings in the place are about 18 to 20 feet high, which made even the living room feel more than large enough. Speaking of furniture, it’s good that most people won’t be spending much of their time in the apartment, because the living room furniture was pretty much thrift-store quality and not very comfortable. I’m more sensitive than most people to the need for good back support, and the kitchen chairs were especially uncomfortable because of their rigidly straight backs. Other people, I suspect, will be less sensitive to this sort of thing. Anyway, the kitchen is ill-equipped for serious cooking, and none of us (three couples) spent much time there or tried to cook. It’s rudimentary and looked to have been assembled from Ikea parts. Incidentally, when we arrived, the kitchen had no bowls for cereal, ice cream, etc. I texted Stefano about it and the next day he brought us eight new bowls. (Thank you, Stefano.) Our only real surprise about the apartment was that the three full bathrooms were not connected to the bedrooms; they were located together, all branching off a small antechamber on one side of the living room, whereas the bedrooms were off the other side of the living room. So to get to a bathroom, you walk out of a bedroom, across the living room, into a common bathroom area, then into an individual bathroom. It wasn’t a problem, though—just the only surprising thing about the apartment. If we sound negative about the place, we aren’t at all: we’re just want to get the less-positive stuff out of the way first. On the whole, we thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The huge bedrooms were a treat; the fact that the apartment was in town and had three bedrooms AND three separate full bathrooms was a rare and welcomed amazement; and the location … was absolutely wonderful. Walk out the front door and look to your right: there’s the Palazzo Vecchio and the (reproduction) statue of...