It was a treat to be greeted by Laura who was SO KIND even though we had a two hr delay in our arrival.
Gianfranco's home is beyond wonderful! Plenty of room for 5 adults. It's so clean, has all the conveniences of home like a dish washer, washing machine and detergent, two bath rooms one shower and comfortable beds. Laura even had juice, coffee, tea and a well stocked kitchen with sugar, spices, olive oil.
The home is centrally located to everything, museums, restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, sight seeing, shopping!!! Just around the corner is a restaurant with huge meat sandwiches for on the go (long lines but so worth the wait). We traveled with the sandwiches during the day so we could eat while touring. Wifi in the home is wonderful and never dropped! Every single suggestion Laura gave us was perfect. She sat down with the map to show us the best of all we wanted to eat, see and do. We put our Rick Steves guide book away and followed Laura's suggestions! Two months before we arrived Laura emailed us suggesting we get tickets on line for the museums. We were here years before and couldn't understand the need to do so. We were wrong and she was right, again! Buy your tickets online or days ahead of when you want to go. We purchased the Firenze card and it was perfect, you save a lot of time jumping ahead of the long lines. We wasted a lot of time trying to purchase the cards and could have saved hours if we had arrived with them. The first Sunday of every month the museums are free but crowded and long lines! Several museums are closed on Monday so plan your museum day carefully. When we visited Florence the taxi service was not dependable in any way so give yourself plenty of time for your arrival and departure, have a backup plan if you are needing to get to the airport. We toured Florence on foot so we got to see many hidden treasures like stores, cafes and amazing photo shoots. We have traveled around the world with Airbnb and Laura is beyond a super host she is amazing, gracious, kind, helpful and a wealth of information to make your stay in Florence cherished in your heart forever! Just follow all of her suggestions! We look forward to seeing Laura and Florence again and we highly recommend staying here for your visit to Florence!