Alessandra's apartment is a wonderful Florentine jewel in my fabourite part of the city. The apartment is small but very well designed so it does not feel crampt at all. All of the decorations & finishing to the apartment are top-class & it had a relaxing & calming atmosphere.

There is a bakery downstairs, lots of great restaurants nearby & the Boboli Gardens just over the road for a morning stroll.

The bed linen was lovely, bath towels were fluffy & the place was spotlessly clean.

Alessandra left detailed instructions & information & met me to hand over the keys. She was very professional & organised.

We hired a motorscooter while in Florence to explore the Chianti region & was unsure where to leave it at night as the apartment is within the restricted traffic area of the city. We left it in the downstairs communal hallway, just off the street, which I thought would be ok for a night. This however caused some problems with the managers of the building & I received an SMS from Alessandra asking me to move it, which I did immediately. This was not outlined in the rules of the house probably because this has not come up before. I apologised to Alessandra for any trouble caused & sorted the problem right away.

There is some traffic noise in the mornings....we called it 'the Formula 1 starting grid' but it did not bother us at all. We enjoyed being right in the centre of the city.

I can definitely recommend this flat most highly for a little bijou pied a terre in Florence.