Hotel Calzaiuoli

Hotel Calzaiuoli is in an excellent location for walking to all the great attractions. The front desk staff, especially Michele, were great in recommending restaurants and made our reservations for us.Read more The breakfasts were plentiful, offering a good selection of food. We never needed lunch, just a gelato break.Speaking of gelato, right around the corner is a fabulous gelato shop. Our room, at the top of the stairs on the 3rd floor, overlooked the Duomo. The bed was extremely comfortable. We normally stay at Four Seasons when we vacation, and I really enjoyed spending all that extra money on gifts rather than the room. We will most definitely recommend this hotel for your Florence stay.Hide

PROS: - Location: Right in via Calzaiuoli in the exact mid point between Piazza della Signora and the Duomo. - Accomodations: Great rooms, pleasant breakfast hall and food, spotless clean, the works.. No noise at all in rooms although they had huge windos facing one of the bussiest walking streets in Florence. CONS: - Parking fee: 30euros per day. - Some staff members could be freindlier.. no biggie. - A bit expensive but worth every euro for the hotel quality and the location. If you travel by car you can drive all the way to the hotel's front door in Via Calzaiuoli. This street is pedestrian, but there is not a problem in driving it (really slowly). The best way to get there is by Via Porta Rossa comming from Piazza di San Firenze. Look for directions in Google maps. A good advise may be to locate the hotel and look for a near by public parking lot which you think is safe. Research your parking if you think 30E per day is too much. Would happily stay here again if I had a similar budget. Although I would look for cheaper alternatives in the same location to see if I get lucky. EPM Mexico.

The location was amazing - could not have been better and the rooms were lovely too, with a great view out onto the square. Given the location you would think it may have been noisey but it was very quiet.

Perfect location in central Florence, two blocks from Duomo. Good room size. Teenage boys enjoyed ability to get sports scores through hotel laptop and internet access. Would stay here again. Best gelatoRead more at neon-lit store around corner and at Grom, two blocks away. Wonderful full course steak dinner at Il Latini a few blocks away.Hide

The hotel was wonderful! The location was very central, the room was the most spacious we had in Italy and the staff were helpful and accomodating. It is a hotel, not a B&B/Inn, so don't expect the staffRead more to "chat", but they were more than happy to asisst us in any way we needed. I would definitely stay here again!Hide