If you want an authentic and unique experience and to really feel like you are in Florence, this is the place to stay. It is wonderfully decorated from family artifacts to interesting posters. The location is AMAZING. We walked everywhere without a problem from the Ponte Veccio to the David (Accademia) the Uffizzi and the Mercado Centrale (two blocks away) where you have to go to the first floor before 2:00 for fresh veggies, fruits, biscotti and fish. The top floor has all kinds of food and is open until midnight. The hosts, Christina and Gianna, are amazing and were so very helpful, not only before we got there but while we were there. They offered help without being intrusive. They would ask how we were doing and if I asked a question they offered places to go, restaurants, cafes and their recommendations were always spot on. Many were places only locals would know.
They left many typed pages of suggestions tailored to us, after hearing what our interests are once we booked. The day we arrived, we were so tired we just wanted to go out and eat and they told us that three block away there's a great place for pizza and pasta and wow it was fantastic. Everyone knows what a crapshoot restaurants can be so to land in a paradise of a place like Florence and to start the vacation this way was so fabulous. Christina and Gianni are warm wonderful hosts and we hope to se them again. Caio, amici!!! Grazie mille.