Stefano kept in touch in the days leading to our arrival and gave excellent recommendations for finding the apartment. Take a taxi from Firenze SMN station or a longer one from the airport.

Stefano was away for business so his wife Stefania met us. She was so sweet and kind. There was a bottle of wine for us and the apartment was clean and exactly as pictured. It is very modern and spacious.

On the first floor is a bathroom with a shower, a kitchen and dining/living area, and a bedroom. The second floor is an open loft with a full bathroom and a large comfortable bed -- this loft is intended to be the master bedroom, but if you have someone else sleeping downstairs, the whole house is open -- only the downstairs bedroom has a closing door.

The couch in the living room has a fold out bed, and the bedroom has the same couch. We stayed on the hide-a-bed while our parents stayed in the loft. The bed was hard, but decent for a couch bed. There was more than enough storage for clothing in both sleeping areas.

The house has great light through the windows, but you can't open them in the summer because of the mosquitoes. The downstairs bedroom doesn't get any air vents from the rest of the house so cool the house down before you go to sleep and close that door. DO NOT OPEN THE WINDOWS in the summer or you will have mosquitoes in your ears all night. I did find a plug-in mosquito trap in the cabinet that seemed to help a little bit.

Despite my aversion for bugs, the apartment was still worth it! There was a full kitchen that is so modern I had trouble turning the stove on, but we figured it out. The clothes washing machine also dries the clothes, but I recommend to hang dry to avoid wrinkles. Manuals are left for the appliances. Also, it may have been an oversight, but we needed to buy toilet paper and paper towels from the market. There was also no hand soap, but I caught Stefania before she left and got a couple small bars.

Overall, great place, AMAZING LOCATION, and great hosts -- very professional. Visit the bar across the street - the owners there are so nice.