The prior reviews of this property were spot on. The location is about a mile away from the Santa Maria Novella train station, making it convenient for us to use our Eurail passes for trips throughout Italy.
We landed at the Florence Airport to begin our three month stay here. We arrived in the afternoon and decided to take a taxi to the property since we weren’t yet familiar with the area yet and were also concerned with rolling luggage on cobblestone. However, it literally only took a day to familiarize ourselves with the area. A lot of people can be seen rolling their luggage to the train station to take a train trip or to use the tram to get to the airport, so it’s doable.
The property has a washer and dryer which made it convenient for us to wash and dry our clothes. The kitchen has dishes, utensils, a coffee maker, microwave oven and stove and oven. The wi-fi is wicked fast. The TV wasn’t working, but we were able to stream movies on our phones, tablet and laptop. There are manual items for cleaning, but it would have been nice (but not a necessity) to have an electric broom.
There are plenty of open restaurants within easy walking distance, but some were also closed while they were on vacation, but almost all were open within a week or two of our arrival.
The Conad supermarket just across the street was one of our favorite conveniences for us to purchase water, snacks and groceries as needed for us to cook at the property when we didn’t want to eat out.
Some of our train trips required physical tickets. Mail to the property is available, but be aware that the post office didn’t want to give us the mail in our name because we weren’t the property owner and they wanted permission from the owner to release the mail.
Bottom line, we felt right at home here and we would definitely stay here again and highly recommend this property.