Melania's place was lovely, it has in my opinion one of the best views in Florence out on her terrace. You can see the Duomo, and Palazzo Vecchio from the terrace. The bed is very comfortable and the rooms are all very elegantly decorated. The place is also sparkly clean. There is a bus stop right outside the apartment making it easy to get to the train station and some other places. There is an elevator which is very handy, as small as it is. if you are a little bigger in size you may find it cramp or claustrophobic. There is a strange smell in the bathroom, but I think it's just because of how old the buildings are. The only major downside is if you like to cook, you might find you need to buy a lot of the things that you need for cooking like oil, vinegar, ground pepper, sugar and other basic spices as none was provided even though the kitchen appears very professional. Only very coarse salt was provided. If you are not planning on cooking, then it shouldn't be a problem. Also in the pictures it showed there was also a Kitchen-aid stand mixer and blender at the apartment, if you were looking to cook with them, then know that they were not at the apartment when we went. We did have a small problem with the wifi, but Melania was very responsive and helpful to come up with a solution for us right away.
There is also a charge for utilities if you have an extended stay and Melania told us we can look at the meter together the night before we left and calculate based on the picture she took ahead of us arriving because we arrived too late, she was not able to greet us, so we never looked at the meter together. Or the other option was to charge us at 3 EUROs/person/day, she told us that this was probably a better deal for us, which turned out to be 100 Euros for 2 people for 17 days. So maybe something you need to keep in mind.
Also during our stay there was an incident of an umbrella appearing on the patio when we came back from a 3 day trip to Venice that was not there on the previous days before we left. The umbrella had fallen over, knocked over a few chairs and was broken. We told Melania and she did send her helper over to inspect, however no conclusion was given. We were quite uneasy about it because for the umbrella to show up like that, it must have meant someone had to have come into the apartment when we were away. However, we were assured that no one would have came into the apartment. Now looking at the pictures we took when we were there, we noticed there was no umbrella either until after we came back from our trip from Venice. There was never really any explanation as to how the umbrella just appeared...... we were just asked to believe that no one came into the apartment even though there was no way an umbrella could show up unless someone brought it in. Thankfully nothing of ours went missing, so this I guess could be the case of the miraculous appearance of a broken umbrella.