Where to stay in Florence Italy? Also Rome.

We stayed here in Florence and loved it!

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In Rome, we stayed in this hotel. Great location!

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In Rome, look at places in the Trastevere area. Plenty of small hotels & apartments. I stayed in the Hotel San Francesco last year and it was good.

Trestevere is best spot in Rome. How many in your party? We stayed here LINK. For location you couldn’t beat it. It’s just a few rooms but we liked our room was big, great shower etc. only issue my wife didn’t like was it is in an old building and has a small very old elevator.

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4. Me n wife. Two high school aged boys.

We stayed in Trastevere in Rome and would recommend it.

In Florence, we stayed across the river just inside the wall, on San Niccolo, in the same building as Rifrullo Firenze. Looks like the the place we stayed is no longer listed on AirBnB, but would highly recommend that location. It's at the foot of the Piazzale Michelangelo, and the Giardino delle Rose. La Beppa Fioraia and Enoteca Fuori Porta are around the corner. Plus the views from our AirBnB were beautiful.

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Seems to be a popular choice. Would you recommend it for just a short two day stay though ? I was kinda thinking perhaps we’d stay somewhere walkable to the major attractions with such a short time frame ?

The plan we have for now is to get there from Positano. Check in or store luggage. Hit up a colosseum tour that afternoon then have a nice dinner that night. The next day we have a private group tour of the Vatican /sistine chapel / peters basilica at 730 am. From then we thought we may just get a 24 hour big bus tours pass and kinda just see everything and spend a litttle time around each of the major attractions. Next day we fly out around noon.

That’s sounds really cool. Did you book it somewhere locally or something like viator.

Just got back yesterday from my 3rd trip in 2 years. For Florence the area you are looking in is perfect. We stayed at Kairos Art Apartments on via dei Neri and for a trip with teens it’s ideal. We did the 2 bedroom deluxe.

For Rome I’ve stayed all over but the closest we stayed to the borghesi was down via del corso on the other side of the pantheon. Looks far but for Roman standards wasn’t a very far walk at all at a hotel called Terrace Pantheon Relais. We loved that place and I’d definitely recommend it.

ETA: be prepared for tiny everything. Cars, elevators (when available), rooms, bathrooms. Use iPhone maps to navigate. Rome is under construction preparing for the jubilee next year.

3rd time doing the Vespa sidecar tour in Rome and it was so much fun. We did the night one that starts at the palazzo vecchio. My then 14 year old was pretty thrilled with sitting behind her young tour guide on a Vespa. She just tried to ignore her nana in the sidecar and myself watching from the back of another Vespa. Really a great tour for teens.

This what I have boooked right now for Florence

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And this is what I have currently for Rome.

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Do those look like decent areas and places ? Thanks you guys a lot for the feedback so far. I just wanted to lock these down for now but if I come across something better I’m subject to change.