Hotel Porta Faenza

We stayed for a couple of days at the Porta Faenza during our trip to Florence. It was a very nice hotel, quietly situated near the city centre and close to the Duomo. The rooms were very nice, clean and comfortable!

Hotel Porta Faenza is in the city centre hotel, located in very quiet street close the Capella of the Medichi, Train station, and 5 minute walk from the Duomo. The staff is very warmly, the room is large and clean. The breakfast is normally and taste.

My grandaughter & myself were here for a week in July, the week of the heatwave! We had room 002. First impressions, easy to find from SMN Station, attractive reception, room on the ground floor with private patio area. A good sized room with that would have slept three, french doors to the patio area which we really did not use as it was totally enclosed by high walls and was usually too hot and it had air con machines on the wall which blew out hot air making it hotter. It was quite a dark room so we had the lights on all the time whilst we were in there, air con worked well and kept it cool and only a couple of mosquito bites which was good. No outside noise on a night but you can hear people upstairs and they usually were walking around at 2am, and there did seem to be a dog around which did a bit of yapping! Cleaner always did a good job and bedding seemed to be changed quite often so a nice fresh bed. Bathroom was sufficient and always hot water, only thing I will say is the bathtub is quite high so if you are of reduced mobility it could be a problem getting in and out - the shower is over the bath. Breakfast was OK for us, always fruit and yoghurt, cheese, ham, bread jam etc. Only tried the scrambled egg, bacon & sausage once and it wasn't very warm, matter of taste! Breakfast starts at 7.30am, we had a couple of early trips, we enquired at reception about an early breakfast and were told 7.15am wouldn't be a problem but the lady doing breakfast did seem a little surprised to see us but it was OK. TV has Netflix so could always find something on their if needed, and BBC news. Be aware of tax of 3.50 euros a day per person, if a family it can add up. This felt like a nice small family hotel, quiet and safe, near restaurants and all the sights and yes, we would stay again if in Florence.