What a spacious, quirky place! It is actually 3 efficiency apartments combined into one to make a huge amount of space that seems like it just keeps going and going. So great to have 3 kitchens, 3 baths, 3+ bedrooms. We loved the ability to spread out and have space to ourselves. The location is great – easy access to the Ponte Vecchio, Duomo, and just about everything in Florence. A couple of things to know:
* To exit the building, there is a button on the wall to unlock the door from the stairs to the lobby. It looks exactly like a light switch and is not labeled as to its purpose. How to exit the building may have been discussed in our check-in, but we missed it. We only found out accidently as we stood there, trying to figure out how to exit the building, and the lobby lights automatically shut off. Fumbling in the dark for the light switch, we accidently hit the door open button. Very frustrating experience - but, if you are reading this, you now know how to open the door!
* Check in time is from 14:00 to 20:00; we arrived at 17:30 and let owner know ahead of time when we would arrive, yet the cleaner was still working and didn’t finish for at least an hour (this is why we rated the check-in process only 3 stars). We let the owner know and I expect that this will not be an issue going forward.
* The apartment was very clean, but there are a few maintenance issues such as broken tiles around the faucet in kitchen (which makes the faucet loose) and torn up floorboards outside both bathrooms.
* Owner was very responsive to an issue we had with one of the keys - thank you!