Hotel Duca d'Aosta

close to florence SM train station. a lot famouse sight nearby. traffic is convenice. the hotel building is old .but interesting.

We enjoyed our stay here. Diamond at the front desk was able to check us in even though we checked in a little late. He even gave us recommendations of restaurants and the best place in the city to see the sun set. The room was good. The candy, biscuits and beverages available around the clock was a hot with my group. I highly recommend anyone to stay there.

With a little more effort, this hotel could readily achieve a five stars review from me. Firstly, the good points. Great location near the station and not far to walk to many areas of interest. Lovely room that was well-equipped and quiet, apart from one night when an extended family were talking loudly after they returned from their evening meal. Breakfast was generally good, although the number of seats was limited and caused a problem on a couple of occasions. But we found it frustrating to arrive and read a notice to say that we had to check in at the sister hotel across the street. This meant carrying our cases up some steps, heading up in a lift, checking in, then wait for the receptionist to stop dealing with other guests, go down to the street, cross it, and then take the lift up to the hotel where we were staying. It's a good job that it wasnt raining when we were doing this. Also, the bread at breakfast was tasteless sliced, white bread. Surely, there's some great bread available. Also, there was far too much sugar in the granola. Staff were very helpful within the constraints imposed on them.