Hotel Colorado is a charming hotel in the center of Florence, completely renovated and refurbished in June 2008 by the new owners, the... more » easytobook.com
Hotel Colorado is a charming hotel in the center of Florence, completely renovated and refurbished in June 2008 by the new owners, the Marazzini Family. The hotel boasts a central location on Via Cavour, only a 15-minute walk from the Santa Maria Novella railway station and the Fortezza da Basso Exhibition Complex. Within walking distance from the most famous monuments and museums of Florence, including the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, Giotto's bell tower, and the Galleria dell'Accademia (home of Michelangelo's David), this affordable hotel is also just steps away from the Uffizi Gallery and the Old Town Market Place. The Colorado Hotel offers a friendly and familiar atmosphere, breakfast room, as well as modern services and facilities such as free wireless Internet access, multilingual tourist information, and city maps. The reception desk is open from 7.30 a.m. until 8 p.m.
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33 year old with a luxury budget, traveling for leisure
The hotel is centrally located - on Via Cavour near the San Marco church. To get up to the hotel (on the second floor) you have to walk up a few steep flights of stairs. If you've got heavy bags, skip this place.
Reaching the second floor landing, you go into reception. Rooms are tiny and bare-bones. A double bed took up the entire floor space in our room leaving us wriggling space to move. The bathroom is functional, but the shower curtain badly needs cleaning/replacing. No bath-tub or enclosed shower space means that bath water runs over into the loo area - carry slippers!
Our room overlooked Via Cavour but the traffic at the weekend was relatively quiet so it was not a problem. The 36C heat was made marginally bearable by the provision of a small fan. A rickety table and wardrobe (blocked by a chair) completed the furniture. There was not much place to keep luggage, so we lived out of our suitcase. All this for about 85 euros a night!
Breakfast was sparse - not the continental breakfast we have been used to in other hotels in Italy : Some cereal, sweet croissants, butter. Coffee from a machine and a juice machine that was labelled 'orange' but spewed out something else in sweet and non-sweet flavours.
In all, if you are looking for a convenient place to keep your stuff while you move around Florence, this should be okay. Don't expect ANY luxuries or comforts. I've stayed in youth hostels which were more comfortable.
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