The location was excellent if your driving - just outside of the zone. Walking distance to everything. The rooms were spacious and clean. The bed was surprising comfortable. Some mentioned the noise on the street but we didn't hear anything.

Francesca and David were very helpful and made calls for us to the museums. Also we had a small problem and they were fabulously in helps us retrieve our package. Thank you.

Would definitely recommend the place.

We stayed here in a double room during April 2008, and paid about 89 euro/night.

The place was clean, and the reception polite (the reception even helped out one of my friends when a misunderstanding caused her to arrive a day before we did - they called around and found her a room in another hotel since they were fully booked). We liked our huge room (by European standards) and bathroom. Breakfast was provided each morning on a tray, with juice, some "toast" in a little package like crackers, and some jellies and Nutella. NOT very impressive, but there were apples sometimes in a basket by the reception and I took one of those instead, and one day we went to a bakery.

The hotel is basically next door to the train station, so it's not in a very pretty or quaint area, but there were several bakeries/sandwich shops nearby, and of course the station if you wanted to go in there to find anything.

Florence is a small city compared to Rome, and we were able to easily walk to all the sites we wanted to see, as well as plenty of restaurants, without using any public transportation. The hotel itself is near San Lorenzo (the Medici church).

We were annoyed that there was no internet provided - you had to go around the corner and under the building to a dingy internet cafe. Personally I wish that wifi was a standard amenity of all hotels worldwide. :)

To sum up our experience, I would say that we neither cared much for the hotel nor disliked it. My main complaints was the stingy breakfast and the lack of internet access, but it was sufficient for our needs, and honestly - who needs an amazing hotel when you're out exploring Florence all day? :)

My Husband and I loved our stay there. The location was perfect an easy walk to main station shops and of course the great markets as well as tourist attractions. The room was spacious and comfortable and the free 24 hour internet in room was great. Florio was a wonderful host. It was our first trip to Italy and our stay in Florence was definately one of the highlights. Heather & Robert Kendall Australia

We had a great stay at the Old Florence Inn B&B. The staff was helpful and went out of their way to assure we had all that we needed. It was close to the train station, the market and nearly everywhere we wanted to go. Our room was thoroughly clean every day and the bed was comfortable. I couldn't say anything negative about the B&B other than I wish we could have stayed longer! It was a great home base while we walked around Florence.