First and foremost, the apartment was in a convenient location. My travel amigo and I found it very easy to walk to centre of Florence, as well as the train station. In the surrounding area, there was restaurants, cafes, gelaterie and grocery stores. Very easy to walk to and from, so had little trouble with that. The air conditioning was very good in the apartment; and kept us cool during the summer days and nights. Without it, I don’t know what we would have done.
And now, the apartment. It was much smaller than we had anticipated. My amigo and I, both smaller than the average human, found it difficult to navigate and manoeuvre the apartment. Given that we had two large suitcases, it was a struggle. My amigo compared the apartment to being a ‘shoebox’, which I would agree with. Some people don’t mind, and we didn’t too much, but it was just much smaller than we expected. Both of us had trouble with the wifi. I messaged the host regarding this problem, and it was resolved with a wifi router that had a different username and password to the one on the door. Okay, cool beans. However, the wifi did give us trouble, and with scientific reasoning beyond me, it worked better with the window open. Which was inconvenient, because it was loud outside. The traffic, as well as the chatter of people nearby, made it difficult to sleep sometimes. The windows open, it was worse. We did have some trouble with the hot water. The host did pay us a visit, and it was working when she came in, however, it would continuously work and not work. My friend and I did have a cold shower each. But we didn’t mind, because it’s bloody hot in Italy. Overall, a good apartment for two female travellers, but not for everyone.