We’ve been to Florence many times and have stayed in hotels and apar**ents. The Alinari Hotel is minutes from the train station. While not charming from the street, the hotel was perfect in many ways. The host was great and accommodating, we had a large four person room with a view of San Lorenzo and the Duomo/Baptistry and footsteps to shopping, Mercato centrale, and many great restaurants. Florence is always busy with tourists even at this time of year but it’s nice to experience some rain and moderate temperatures as opposed to summer heat. The Alinari offers a great, very complete breakfast along with an open balcony looking over most of central Florence. We squeezed a lot into a two-night stay but we were already very familiar with Florence, so other then tired feet we wished we could have spent a few more days. Tutti Buono!
What a friendly and clean hotel! Convenient, excellent continental breakfast (even included eggs!), and superb staff to help with everything. Miguele, at the front desk was especially helpful with our entire 3 day stay. Parking was a big bonus, not usually included in this price range.