This was a decent budget choice in an expensive town. The location is OK--just an average neighborhood, with an easy bus connection to Firenze SMN (10 minute walk to most sites from there). The bus took from 5 - 20 minutes to get to the station, depending on traffic. Big supermarket 1/2 block away. The apartment is a gracious older flat with interesting vintage furniture. It stayed pretty cool even when it was 99 degrees F outside. Monia kindly lent me a fan, too. I enjoyed the views from the balconies and the breeze from the huge windows.

I found it off putting that the bedroom has a lot of dead mosquitos squashed onto the walls and just left there. Mosquitos definitely thrive in the neighborhood, but I only got 2 bites, while using the wall plugin and bug repellant cream.

Monia very nicely welcomed me to the flat but I only saw her once after that. I could have used more advance information about how to take care of the flat for the week while she was away. This felt more like a full apartment rental than a homestay.