The apartment is located right in the centre of Florence, about 20min walk to the main train station Firenze SMN. The host was hard to contact prior to arrival. We only managed to contact him the night before our arrival by phone to arrange meeting up. The apartment facilities were basic, air con was particularly poor. The host was friendly, got us a map and showed us the main attractions in Florence on the map. We really didn't appreciate that he took pictures of our passports for input of guest information for obvious confidentiality reason. All other Italian hotels that I have stayed, they only needed to write down our passport numbers etc.