If you are in Florence for Easter, you MUST stay in the apartment! The Easter tradition in Florence is called "Scoppio del Carro," which includes a 500 year old cart that explodes fireworks after a procession with drummers, flag throwers, and white oxen, and this gives you the most incredible view of the whole thing. It's really a once in a lifetime thing to see this from here. The views in the pictures are accurate - it's really that good. We give this 4 stars because of that, but if we hadn't been there for Scoppio del Carro we probably would give the apartment 3 stars.

We were greeted by the lovely Isabella upon our arrival in Florence. She was kind and charming and told us everything we need to know about the apartment.

The 80 stairs to the apartment aren't bad on a daily basis if you are in decent shape, but with luggage (we were on a 2 week trip, so had rather large bags), it's not easy. But you just have to do it once and then it is not a problem.

This apartment was worth it for us because of the view for Scoppio del Carro, but for light sleepers I could see the tourist-centered location combined with the older windows as being a problem with the noise. We live in a major city so are used to noise while sleeping but it was loud, even compared to what we are used to. After all that sightseeing you are tired anyway, but neither of us are light sleepers and it did wake me up throughout the night. There are tourists outside until 10 or 11 PM, then drunk and noisy students walking home in the early hours of the morning, and then the tourists start up again around 8 AM.

Also, note that there is no wifi in this apartment.