Machiavelli Palace - Florence, Italy 

Nothing to Write Home About
Posted: Mon, Nov 23 2009
My clients report this hotel and services are just so...rooms, breakfast, service.

KN
Posted: Wed, Jun 10 2009
The location is good,near train station. But the room we stay is far away from the lift, many stairs to walk up and down.Staff are helpful, the shower facilities also ok.

BC
Posted: Tue, Jun 02 2009
As travelers on foot, it was really convenient that this hotel was located just 200 m from the main station, where we were delivered by bus from the airport. It's on what seemed like "hotel avenue" -- since the entire street was lined with hotels, which made finding the sign challenging among all the others. The front desk staff was courteous and helpful, and was very nice to get reservations for museums for us -- even at practically the last minute. Because we arrived late, we were so grateful that restaurants are open later in Italy (than in some other countries), and we can highly recommend the Trattoria Anitchi Cancelli down a couple of small streets and around the corner. There are street markets close by during the day. From our balcony (we were on the top floor) we could look around the corner and see the Duomo -- which was marvelous, and it was a pleasant way to spend a night resting. There were 2 things that were less than ideal for us: 1. TINY shower - it was about 1/2 size of a standard single shower in the US. When you close the according curtain, you can barely turn around -- and there is no chance of bending to wash your legs. Although we are both over 6 feet tall - this would be true even for smaller people. So we made due by showering with the curtain open. Good thing there was a drain in the floor. 2. Inadequate A/C: Even in May you will want A/C. But even turned up all the way, it was 3 days until the room was finally cooled enough to be comfortable. We would sleep with the door open, which was tolerable -- except that because we were on "hotel avenue" it was rather noisy into some of the later hours. While most of the tourist sites are within relative walking distance, if you want to be near those, I would choose a different area of town for accommodations. We liked the proximity to main station.

AV
Posted: Tue, May 19 2009
Noise from an engine or something similar at the rooms of the top floor