Casa Tasca is a very spacious, grand yet homely, traditional Florentine apartment and the host Paolo was very friendly and helpful, allowing us to check in a little earlier than planned. He lives in the same building so he was always available if we needed to ask any questions and he provided useful information of nearby amenities, he even kindly booked restaurants for 2 evenings for us - and they were absolutely wonderful. We would highly recommend them to other guests. He also very generously laid on a welcome feast of fruit, cake, snacks and water, which we had not expected - and helped us up the stairs with our heavy luggage. Remember to ask him for electrical wall socket adaptors for your electrical goods as the existing sockets are the old-style 3-pin ones.
The apartment is very easy to get to by local bus, 2 stops away from Florence Central (Santa Maria Novella) Station and then very easy to walk to the Duomo and all the famous attractions of Florence, yet in a nice quiet residential street with a myriad of restaurants and supermarkets nearby. Thank you, Paolo, for a wonderful stay!