We stayed a month in one of the apartments located in this historic old building in central Florence.
The location is a bit away from the main tourist sites, but still close enough to visit everything on foot, to be honest there's not really a bad location in central Florence, it's a reasonably small and accessible city, if you stay in the central zone.
The apartment we stayed in was called Fiorella, there's a number of different apartments in the old building, ours was tucked up under the eaves and has a lift that you can use to get to the upper floor, there's also a small staircase if you don't like the look of the rickety old lift.
Our apartment was not ready for us on arrival but our host Roberto pulled some strings and got the place cleaned and serviced in a couple of hours while we waited in a nearby park.
There were a few other issues during the stay and again Roberto did his best at helping us resolve these issues which included the hot water and heating systems, when we regularly had neither.
It's an old building and the apartments reflect that, our stay, during the autumn month of November was a bit gloomy, although they do have a skylight that does a pretty good job of injecting some natural light into the place, there's a kitchenette that you can prepare some very basic meals in, the bathroom has a washing machine included which we appreciated, the bedroom, in the European way, was two single beds pushed together to make a double which was fine.
The windows in both the bedroom and sitting room are not double glazed, and the street noise may be of concern to some, it's not too bad but the street is a typically cobbled road and everything echoes and bounces up from below.
There are two lounge suites, one in the bedroom and one in the main sitting room, both are pretty old, pretty uncomfortable and pretty grim, the whole place could do with some interior decorator skills to bring it up to contemporary tastes and comfort.
The Wi-Fi was great and we had no issues with a pretty good strong signal for the whole month.
If you're going to be in Florence for more than a few days and like the idea of something bigger than a European hotel room then Roberto's could be the place for you, they have a weekly clean and it's well situated to the sights, there's a couple of supermarkets nearby and plenty of cafes and restaurants to choose from.