My 11 year old granddaughter and myself spent 5 very enjoyable nights at Giovanni's lovely apartment. We found the apartment to be just as it had been described . As a 75 year old I did not find the steps up to the first floor at all troublesome , although Giovanni's brother did very kindly help us carry our luggage up when we arrived .
The apartment was very well laid out and we had plenty of room, the kitchen and bathroom were just what we needed . One lovely addition was the presence of a washing machine that was so useful after the 2 weeks of travelling we had already done before we got there .The air conditioning unit worked very well so we didn't have to open windows at night and were not bothered by the mosquitos . The large bed was very comfortable so there was no bother getting to sleep.
The apartment wasn't in the very centre of Florence but we found this a plus and loved walking over the bridge into Florence , we only caught a taxi twice, when we arrived and when we left.The apartment block itself was one street back from the river and was extremely quiet.There are plenty of restaurants very close by.
Giovanni and his brother were exceptional hosts and very quick to respond if we had any queries . One of our suitcases was lost so that meant we were late arriving from the airport and arrived a bit stressed but Giovanni helped with the delivery of this when it was found the next day, also my granddaughter has coeliac disease and cannot eat gluten so they kindly sent us a list of gluten free restaurants that we could pick from for our meal that first evening. Also they kindly organised a taxi for us when we left.
On the subject of gluten free restaurants , we did find a lovely quiet one a 10 minute walk along Via San Spirito called Momio's, the staff were fantastic snd very friendly, the food was extremely good and we ended up going there every evening and once for breakfast. Also there is a small fruit and vegetable store about a three to five minute walk along the Via San Spirito the other way towards the Ponto Vecchia and a slightly larger supermarket just further on past Ponto Vecchia all on our side of the river. Not to mention THE most fantastic Gelato shop which needless to say we managed to visit every day!!!!!
I would certainly happily recommend Giovanni's lovely apartment for any couple who wanted to stay in Florence and if ever we come back to Florence ( and i did rub the famous statue of a pig that apparently ensures that you do return to Florence ) we would hope that Giovannii would allow us to stay his apartment again.