Also, it's a third-story walk-up with no elevator.
It's where I've put up everyone from my own parents to my Boy Scout troop (note: make sure you know what you are getting into when you agree to take a group of teenage boys on a month-long trip to Europe).īonus: You get breakfast in bed, served by Evelyn Morris, the Welshwoman who has managed the joint for years.ĭrawback: There's a variable curfew (usually between midnight and 1am). This is the place I usually stay when I come to town. The hotel's dim halls are crowded with genuine baroque art-a marble child in a chair, a chipped sculpture from the della Robbia studio, tattered oil paintings by Van Dyck and Sustermans-and the cavernous rooms are stuffed with a mix of antiques and 1950s designer furnishings. However, it gets my personal highest, three-star rating for having ten times the character of chic hotels that charge five times as much-and for being in the precise geographic center of the city, on what was once the decamanus maximus (main street) of the Roman settlement Fiorentina. This is not a luxury hotel in any sense of the word-not by a long shot. Spiaggia del Fornillo is placed 0.
Located a mere 600 metres from Via Fornillo, the hotel boasts 3 restaurants specialising in Campania, Southern-Italian and Neapolitan cuisine.
My favorite inexpensive hotel in Florence is a third-floor walk-up in a 1645 palazzo smack in the center of town. The 2-star Pensione Maria Luisa Positano is set right at a harbour and narrow alleys. Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici SADLY, THE MARIA LUISA DE' MEDICI HAS CLOSED.īaroque art, designer furnishings, and cheap rooms at the Pensione Maria Luisa de' Medici, an inexpensive hotel in Florence, Italy
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