After staying in AirBNB's across Europe, Alessandra's apartment in Florence was by far the nicest. It is essentially like staying in a gorgeous hotel suite. Immaculately designed, wonderful furnishings, a full modern kitchen, and an amazing location made us love staying here. It is right above a bakery so you would need to enjoy smelling butter and chocolate every morning. The bathroom looks like it was remodeled very recently with all marble and high end finishes. Lots of great light and the air conditioning worked wonderfully.

The only negative is that as other reviewers noted, it is on a very narrow, busy, 1-way street so with the windows open it could be pretty loud as busses and motorcycles go by. However with the windows closed, it was reduced to simple background noise as you'd expect in the middle of any city, we slept through it all fine and I am not a very heavy sleeper.

Alessandra herself was super nice, met us in the apartment the first day and explained how it all worked and where everything is. You can tell she's put a lot of thought and effort into the place. Great host, great apartment! If we ever returned to Florence we would stay here in a heartbeat.