Hotel Ibis Firenze Prato Est - Campi Bisenzio, Italy     

If you want to get to the centre of Florence with public transport easily, I won't recommend this hotel. However, if you have your own car it will be an excellent hotel for you. We followed the instructions of mickodwyer of 18 September 2007, but still ended up buying the wrong bus tickets. The first ticket seller you get to if you follow his instructions, is not a Lazzi bus! Make sure you buy a ticket for Lazzi, and don't expect the salespeople to be very helpfull. We had a terrible time getting information out of them. According to the Lazzi bus schedules there are regular busses from the hotel to the centre of Florence on a Sunday, but in reality, there are no busses at all! We stood at the bus stop for 3 hours and eventually a bus driver going in the opposite direction took pity on us and helped us out by taking us to Prato train station. The hotel is opposite I Gigli shopping centre which is handy, but that's all there is in the area and the centre is closed on Sundays. The rooms and bathrooms are absolutely fine, and the staff friendly, but the location is not ideal.

what you would expect from an ibis, standard conditions, some things not working properly, yopu have to insist \to get a good service not so easy to find by car, as they claim on the website (unless you have a GPS) + it takes about 1 hour to get into florence (firenze)