The host Carla is a lovely elderly lady who speaks English fluently! We had a very nice and warm welcome and she gave us information about the area. The breakfast was very good indeed.
The house is an old charming mansion house from the 15th century, which nowadays is a shared house. Carla (and a few elderly ladies) live on the ground floor, the second floor is also rented to some elderly ladies. The first floor has the four guest rooms and the communal room. The landscape around it is absolutely beautiful and the cats were sooo cute! It's very close to the city, but we recommend going there by foot, bus or taxi, since there seems to be only residential parking around Firenze or the expensive parking areas.
But now to the downside: The problem is, that, due to the pandemic they probably hardly had any guests staying here over the last year - and unfortunately, this is how the rooms look like. It smelled dusty and damp. There was dust, dead flies and spider webs almost everywhere... The white towels they gave us smelled clean but had brown stains and were torn apart at some parts... The worst part were the mosquitoes: they were an absolute plague. Although the owners knew about the problem, they didn't have any mosquito nets or tents, just mosquito plugs and sprays, which weren't of great use and smelled rather dangerously hazardous if inhaled... Since there is no air con nor ventilator, we wanted to leave the windows open at night to get a nice fresh breeze, but this was absolutely impossible. We come from the countryside ourselves (without aircon or ventilator) and are used to things, but this was too much. Not being able to sleep at night is no option.
We had a long chat with Carla about all that before we left. She was very understanding about the problems and promised to change things and do some investments for the guests to come - and we are sure she will do it!
Carla was always very nice to us all the time and we cannot say anything bad about her personally, but sometimes being nice is just not enough to cover for all the other things that are going/had gone in a wrong direction. Until now, for around 70 Euros per night (in total) you can definitely expect more.