For the most part, we enjoyed our stay. The apartment is in an excellent location, in walking distance from everywhere we wanted to go in Florence. It is tucked away from the street in a gated community, which made it very quiet and secure. We enjoyed eating our breakfast every morning on the balcony, which overlooks a beautiful garden. The apartment is beautifully decorated in a minimalistic style with high-quality furniture. The queen-size bed has a memory-foam mattress which was very comfortable (but unfortunately got quite hot).
A few things that potential guests should be aware of: Heating and air conditioning are listed as amenities for this apartment, but if you look at the bottom of the "Additional rules" under "House rules," you will see that they are only available during certain times of the year: "AIR CONDITIONING ON from 1st June and off from 16 September . Heating is on from 1st november to 15 april at the following time (from 6 to 10 am, from 12 to 3 pm, from 6 to 11 pm) ." At the end of April, it was quite hot in Florence, so the bedroom got a bit too warm for my comfort, and the air conditioning was not available. It was necessary to sleep with the windows open, but there are no screens on the windows so this lets a lot of insects in.
Also, the bedroom window has sheer white curtains and slatted wood shutters, but the shutters only reduce the amount of light that comes in by about 50%. Even with both the shutters and curtains closed, the bedroom got very light around 6:30 AM, which woke me up. I would recommend that the host buy black-out curtains to supplement the shutters.