This is a great budget hotel, a 2 min walk from the main train station F.S.M.N. When you come off the train, exit the station at the right hand exit. If you walk down a few steps and look to your right you will see the hotel signs. We had a triple room which had 4 beds and a table and chairs. The bathroom only had a shower, which was fine for us and the room and bathroom were cleaned every day. The hotel is on a main road, so if noise bothers you, ask for a room at the back of the hotel or take ear plugs. The breakfast selection was limited to cereals, toast, ham, cheese, scrambled eggs and pastries but all very tasty. All of the major attractions are within walking distance from the hotel. They will give you a great map when you check in. The hotel recommended a great restaurant within a 5 min walk and Za Za on Piazza del Mercato Centrale, 26r is well worth a visit. For those who love chocolate try Hemmingway, a cool little cafe/bar at Piazza Piattellina 9r. It's worth taking the no 7 local bus to Fiesole, a beautiful village in the hills (only 25 mins on the bus). The bus stops are located on the main road leading to the Duomo. Buy your tickets at a newspaper stand before you board. Florence is a lovely city, and I would recommend visiting it out with the peak summer season.

Travelled here in mid October of 2007 and was pleasently surprised by the hotel and the size of our room. Upon check in we received an upgrade to a kitchen suite and a High speed Internet PC in our room. This is a budget hotel so there were a few things that were far from perfect, our shower didn’t drain very well, and we our room faced the street thus we could hear the street noise. Those were the only complaints we had. The staff was very helpful at arranging tours, and giving us directions. All of the satff spoke good English.

The reason we pick this hotel was because it is near to the train station. My friend and I were on a short europe tour and train is our main mode of transportation. What we did'nt know was, there are 2 main train station in Florence. We took a train from Rome and the train stop at this particular station which was not the station we expected the train would stop at. Therefore we have to take a bus to the correct train station because we only know to get to the hotel from the "right" station. The hotel itself is located as part of a row of shop lots, just like most of the hotels nearby. I would think the hotel has gone through a major renovation or it might be a totally new hotel. Everything look so new and clean. We got ourself a standard twin bed room. Spacious, clean and modern. Even the bathroom is spacious. Towel, shampoo and soaps are provided. Oh ya, shower cap too.

The staff is ok. Not too friendly but not too ignorence either. About the free internet, yeah, it is free. Just ask the front desk staff for the username and password and you are set to go. The last time we were there, they have 6 computers located at the lobby area near the breakfast room. There was not too many people when we were there, so we can were able to use the internet for as long as we want. it will automatically log off once the 15minutes or was it 30minutes (cant really remember) period over. but u can log on again using the same username and password. I think it is fair enough so, that others may be able to use it too rather than the facilities being abuse by some guests.

Like most hotels, they too have a luggage room in the lobby area. Just in case your train/flight is later than the checking out hour. Check out as normal and you may leave your luggage in that room and continue sight seeing. The front desk staff has the key to the luggage room.

The famous Duomo dome is within walking distance. It took us 10minutes to get there. I'm not so sure of other mode of transportation to get there but I'm sure there should be an alternative than just walking. We saw a lot of buses though. It is nice to walk when there are lots of shops along the way.

This hotel was just perfect for our one night stay in Florence.

Right next to the train station, which is super convenient. We were able to even make a quick trip to Pisa after we checked in since we were so close to the station. Only 10-20 minutes walk to the Duomo and museums too, so we were able to see everything we wanted and more in just 1.5 days (including Pisa).

Free internet use, with 5 computers provided. We loved this as we could contact our family easily!

Excellent breakfast in the morning, with hot and cold items.

Friendly staff, who spoke excellent English.

Our room was big (I think it was one of the "family" rooms) and the bathroom was nice too - but only a shower, no bath (not a big deal, but just made it a little harder to bathe our baby). Quiet too.

Provided a lovely little crib/playpen for our baby, with nice clean bedding for it too. Our bed was a little uncomfortable, on one side anyway. It was 2 single beds pushed together (very common in Europe), and one of them was very squeaky.

We arrived early and they made every effort to get our room ready for us right away. If it had not been ready they were going to store our luggage for us (which they did when we checked out, so that we could tour the city some more before catching our train).

Would definitely stay here again.