Check-in was very smooth, Ilaria arranged for Sara to meet us at the flat and let us in. Location couldn't be better, right next to the Galileo Museum, which sits beside the Uffizi. One block walk to the Palazzo Vecchio, two blocks to Ponte Vecchio...lovely views over the river. The apartment is clean, open, spacious and (when you open the shutters) filled with light. The air conditioning works and isn't too noisy. Don't be put off that the second bed is a sofa bed, it was actually very comfortable. The kitchen is large and functional for cooking a family meal if you so desire. Good quality local and imported ingredients are available from a Conad supermarket just across the Ponte Vecchio in Oltrarno. Other reviews probably mention the noise of the garbage trucks emptying the communal bins in the square below. They seemed to come every night, sometimes more than once - it doesn't take long, but is loud enough to wake all but a heavy sleeper. On the plus side, there was never any smell from the garbage, even in the height of summer (35 degrees C for the 6 days we were there).