If it is hot in Florence, this isn't airconditioined. By keeping it closed all day, it does remain cool but that means you sit in a very dark rather dismal collection of rooms with a galley kitchen that you would need to be desperate to want to cook in. If you are 3 or 4 , I guess it's a very cheap alternative but we, as a couple, moved out pretty quickly to a reasonable, pretty, aircontioned hotel . this place is near sites but really you don't need to be that near and that is what you are paying for. The little outside area was the only light spot I found for reading (the rest was just too dark) and it was good for drying clothes etc. We didn't use the machines etc. but noticed they were there as was the microwave and fridge. We never really got ~wi fi the whole time we were there but got it no problem once we moved to the hotel. Sometimes I got it in the street but rarely.