On the positive side, Simona was a great host and any query we had (there were quite a number of them) were answered within a minute and never
more than 5 minutes out. The location is excellent with a 5 min walk to the Cathedral and center of town. The view also was very nice with Brunelleschi's cupola framed in the windows. The apartment is very well decorated and the kitchen is large. Less positive was that we struggled with the induction stove (we never had trouble with such stoves at other places we stayed) and had to bother Simona about these issues. There was no tea/coffee pot but we found that these are typically not available in Italy. The main problem we experienced was a pervasive sewage smell (different from a typical benign old house smell) in the staircase well. It varied from day to day but on bad days it seeped into the bedroom through the (closed) door to the staircase.