Our experience here was miserable. Although the apartment was clean and the communication was good, the location was so noisy that we were unable to sleep past 7 am or continuously throughout the night.
As the listing mentions it is right across the street from the Statue of David. This means that at 7 am businesses start opening their metal shutter grates, trucks start unloading deliveries, and people start shouting down the street. The apartment doesn’t have any installation to buffer the noise and in fact, the window is simply a hole in the wall with shutters, (no glass) so sleeping later than 6:45 is impossible. Also, sirens go down the street at all hours of the night, so sleeping continuously is also impossible.
My husband and I stayed there for three nights. Horrified after the first night, we asked Daniella to move to the back bedroom, as the guests were leaving. She said the cleaning lady had already come, so it would not be possible. The second morning, again, the guests were leaving. We asked, again, if we could move, since this time the cleaning lady had not come. Not only did Daniella refuse, but she accused us of over exaggerating, saying she lives a couple apartments down and the street was not noise at all. We live in Boston, so we are no strangers to noisy streets, but this was too much for us.
Staying at Daniella’s absolutely ruined our trip to Florence. We were forced to go to bed no later than 10 pm to get a full night’s sleep, and therefore couldn’t experience the city’s nightlife. We found the host to be unhelpful and rude the moment a problem arose. I would not recommend staying here.