Dear Marco,
Thank you for being such a great host! We enjoyed our long stay in Florence and wish to come back again :)
Our family of 3 stayed at Marco’s apartment for 4,5 months. And we found it to be the best place to stay in terms of location, comfort and price. It is situated on the Ponte alle mosse - where you have many buses driving through. Getting to any part of the city was easy and quick due to many bus stops near the apartment building. You can take bus to the city center or have a 15-20 walk.
There are 2 big supermarkets for groceries and one for al the housekeeping items. There are few pharmacies in the vicinity of the apartment. One tabachi just across the road for bus tickets. Few really good and inexpensive restaurants with pizza, pasta, seafood and deserts. One great pasticceria with all sorts of cakes and coffee at 3 minutes walk. In the same building, 1 minute walk away there is a bar that offers not only drinks but really good lunches for €7.50. Nevertheless, the windows of the apartment look at the inside yard, so it is very quiet in the apartment at any time.
There are two parks at 15-20 minute walk, one of them is Cascine park - the central park of Florence. We had a child with us, so we used to go to the parks a lot for their big playgrounds. There are also 2 kindergartens in 2-3 minutes of walk from the apartment, if you plan to stay with kids. And one co-working place, where you can work while your child is playing in the next room or you can leave your child with nanny there for few hours.
The apartment itself is great for a small family, as it has a bedroom and a kitchen-studio, TVs, air conditioners, bathroom, coffee machine, dishwashing machine, stove and oven. We were impressed with the number of cutleries, plates and pans. We did not need to buy any more. We liked the design of the apartment - it is very modern and bright - just the we like it. As of June 2018 the apartment was freshly refurbished.
Marco and his wife were very nice and helped with everything we needed. They were very welcoming and helped with any questions we had. We are very grateful to his family for such a wonderful stay in Florence! Definitely will come back again and would stay at the same apartment.
Thank you very much again! Wish you the best of luck in all your beginnings.