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Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci : Florence at its Best
by TripAdvisor Member vonOtter
Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci is a very special place to stay in a very special city.
The hotel is well positioned one block from the River Arno near Ponte Santa Trinita, giving easy access to the Oltrarno, as well as the destinations on the north side of town. Unlike most hotels the entrance is four stories above street level; this unusual arrangement gives guests the impression that they are in a secret location.
The ceilings are 14 feet high throughout, lending a sense of spaciousness to the entire place. Art and antiques line the halls and furnish the rooms. A large sitting room allows guests to socialize in a warm atmosphere. The staff is very helpful, with friendliness and warmth larger hotels do not offer.
The Continental breakfast (included in the room price) is filling and satisfying. In warm weather breakfast is served on the terrace that is planted with flowers and has sweeping views across the city.
Ask for room #26 when you make reservations. It is very comfortable; its bathroom is roomy. From this room's two tall double windows Brunelleschi’s dome and Giotto's campanile can be seen to the left, with the Church of San Miniato al Monte and the hills to the south of the city in plain view on the right.
The comfort, warmth and charm of the Tornabuoni Beacci can not be matched and will keep me returning to Florence.
A jewel
by TripAdvisor Member macbird
After looking at several possibilities in Florence, we chose Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci for our three night stay October 9-12, 2004. It is a beautiful, art filled small hotel with its reception desk on the fourth floor of an elegant building on a busy commercial street, next to Tiffany and across from Cristofle and Pucci. It is a short walk to the Piazza della Repubblica, the Duomo, the Uffizi, the Arno, and several museums. Our room (#26) was decorated in formal Florentine style, had a marvelous view of the Duomo, and was roomy, comfortable, and fairly quiet considering the din of motorcycles and the sound of church bells that is Florence. The roof garden is beautiful, and our night cap drinks there were very reasonable and served with a smile. The hotel offers a simple breakfast of cereal, eggs, croisssants and rolls until 10am. Great location, accommodations and service. We would love to return some day!
Good value for the price-.
by TripAdvisor Member GabyTraveler
We just came returned from a two night stay at Hotel Beacci Tornabuoni, and found it to be a mixed bag. On the positive, the hotel has a FANTASTIC location, and the staff is nice. Sitting up on the rooftop was also quite lovely. It could have just been our rooms, but you had to walk up several flights (after using the elevator to go four flights to the lobby) to get to them. Breakfast was so-so, and the rooms were large (a definite plus), but nothing special. We got a VERY good rate for our two rooms, and so that made up for alot . . .
An excellent small hotel
by TripAdvisor Member jiminptc
We have just returned from a three night stay at the Beacci Tornabuoni Hotel in Florence, Italy. We recommend the hotel highly.
The location is excellent - centrally located about two blocks off the Piazza Republica, but not right in the incredible tourist crush of central Florence. Just about everything in Florence is within a short walk.
We booked our rooms directly with the hotel by email - we had two standard double rooms that we got at a very good price through a special on their web site. Both rooms were more than adequate size for two people. The rooms are in need of modernizing, but comfortable and clean. One room overlooked the Via Tornabuoni, but we were not bothered by traffic noise because of a heavy wooden shutter on the window. This room was on the central hallway, between the reception desk and the breakfast room, so we did hear some hallway noise. The other room was on a lower floor and facing a building, and while it had no view it was absolutely quiet. The air conditioning was creaky, but once it got going it was adequate for June - not sure how it would do in August.
The hotel has a beautiful roof-top garden with a bar. They serve dinner on the roof-top 5 nights a week for a fixed price of 30 Euro, and it is well worth it - the views of the rooftops of Florence and the Tuscan hills at sunset are worth the trip.
The staff is very polite & helpful, and they all speak good English. We had to ask for help with the air conditioning when we arrived, and they showed up promptly to help us. We were unable to get tickets to the Uffizi Gallery (they were booked a month in advance), but the hotel got us reservations with a tour.
The breakfast was standard cereal, fruit & pastries.
We have travelled to Italy several times, and Florence once before, and this hotel exceeded our expectations.
Lovely, Characteristic Hotel
by A TripAdvisor Member
We stayed here for 2 nights on our honeymoon in Italy - it's a truly lovely place. Because the hotel is located on the most fashionable shopping street in Florence (Tiffany is on the ground floor and Gucci a few doors down), it quiets down from both foot and motor traffic in the evening. This is extremely important for us as nightlife can extend well into the wee-hours of the morning, making it difficult for a relaxing night's sleep. Our little room, which had a view of the surrounding red roofs and building walls, was very quiet, and the simple furnishings characteristically 17-18th century.
The rooftop terrace is a real plus. The owners took care to fill it with flowering and decorative plants. You really don't feel like you're in the middle of a noisy, polluted city and we took breakfast out there daily.
The staff was polite, friendly, and helpful. Breakfast service was excellent.
A few more words about location - most of historic Florence is located in a very concentrated area, so it is easy to walk all over town. The Beacci Tornabuoni is a short block from the beautiful Santa Trinita bridge, which provides a glorious view across to the Ponte Vecchio and the hills on the other side of the Arno. A 5-6 minute walk takes you past Piazza Republica to the Duomo and 6 in the other direction takes you to the train station. Much of Florence was under scaffolding with constructions abound. Thankfully we did not have that issue at our location.
Not as great as all the reviews say...
by A TripAdvisor Member
We were really looking forward to staying here but left very disappointed. Rooms are very variable in size and quality of view. The bed in our first room was in fact 2 twin beds pushed together with no covering mattress. The beds were also ancient and had been reinforced with chipboard-Outrageous for a hotel of this price. After considerable amounts of complaining we were grudgingly given a suite on one of the lower floors. It was the best of a bad lot and altough nice enough was dark and had a window out onto a wall.
We initially thought it was only us having problems but as we waited in a long line to check out it was abundently clear that many other guests were complaining about the same things.
On the positive side it was charismatic and rather like staying in an old, well decorated venetian palazzo (which it is ) and is centrally located.
Overall it is nice enough but there are better places to stay in Florence for less money.
Forum Posts
KING-SIZED BEDS IN FLORENCE
by Cinzi
Could you help our my husband and myself to find some "King-sized" accommodations in Florence? My husband is very tall and requires a bed that is much longer and wider than usual.
We are open to the type of accommodation - hotels, bed and breakfast, etc.
Your help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you!
Re: KING-SIZED BEDS IN FLORENCE
by squizzy1
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Re: KING-SIZED BEDS IN FLORENCE
by von.otter
Try the Hotel Tornabuoni Beacci. The bed we had was very large.
http://www.tornabuonihotels.com/
It is a great hotel.
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