Hotel Fedora in Florence

The location is not really closed to the train station. It’s no easy to need to lug your big luggage to walk the Rocky road and up the stairs before you can get to the reception. However if you’re hand-free it’s not a bad location.

We were given a room next to the staircase on the second floor, no lift, but receptionist was kind enough to carry up the suitcases up the narrow stairs for us.

This is the “oldest hotel” I’ve stayed to my visits to Europe/Italy since 24 Mar 2024. The door is still using the old old key lock and we have to remember to lock with the key whenever we get in or out the room!! The ceiling of the room is low and my son (height 185cm) can easily touch it by raising his arm. He needs to lower his head when entering the toilet in order not to hit the door frame.

The aircon in the room not working and when asked, the receptionist said it’ll only be usable during summer. But our room has no ventilation at all when the toilet door is closed and even with opening of that small little window, worse still, it’s facing the back of the surrounding blocks and you can imagine how dirty it is. I’m a person with low tolerant of cold and I can feel warm and stuffy in the room. So much so that I have to open the door wide when my son was having shower.

The toilet door can’t be closed properly and need to slam to securely closed! The skirting in the toilet is dropping off and the layer of “cushions” on the wall is peeling off.

We return from outside and night to need to open the main door facing the street, the semi glass door up the stairs, the metal gate at the reception area, before we could walk up the stairs to open our room. The thing is, the “gate” at the reception area need to turn the key and push open without turning the knob. So it actually auto locked by itself. So we are safe.

We heard funny sounds at the door and my son said someone was trying to open the door! I had to block the door from opening by using the chair to block the handle of the door.

The table lamp not working and I have to use the light from my selfie stick, else will have to sleep with the light on or in total darkness.

My son said there’s a fly in the room, after we return from outside at night. And when I was ready to sleep I heard the mosquitoes buzzing but could find it. The next day, my son told me he was bitten by mosquitoes and not able to sleep well!

They placed an electronic mosquito repellent at the toilet after i told them about the mosquitoes.

When I walk past other rooms on level 1, I saw their rooms are big and bright with natural light. I guess it’s the room we had that made me don’t feel good, otherwise it’s not a bad stay.

The receptionists are very helpful and polite, They even tell us where to visit and have meal. Too bad that I can’t really understand his accent, so don’t really registered what he said.

The location is very good. Very close to center of florence. The personel was very kind and helpful.
But!! The hotel must be renovated as soon as possible.
Very old furniture, the bathroom very small and not in good condition. Wind and noise is coming in from the windows. The breakfast was poor. The lights, on the upper floor where the bed was, didnt work.
Even if i paid only 100 for 2 nights, i would have expected a more decent hotel.