| From: MR, USA |
| Date of Stay: June, 2008 |
| The Hotel Villa Carlotta definitely exceeded my expectations. The room was lovely, with a chandelier and antique furniture. For breakfast, an elegant man brought me a truly delicious lemon pastry along with my cappuchino. The best part about the Hotel Villa Carlotta was the staff, who go out of their way to welcome their guests. When I inquired about a local parade, a staff member even looked it up in the newspaper so she could give me more information about it. I would love to return to the Hotel Villa Carlotta and spend more time in the beautiful city of Florence (Firenze). |
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| From: Reviewer has requested to be kept anonymous. |
| Date of Stay: April, 2006 |
| The pictures on their website must be old...rooms are pretty run down. It's close enough to walk to town which is nice. The staff was nice and very helpful. Surrounding area is beautiful |
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| From: Robert Edwards, Germany |
| Date of Stay: December, 2007 |
| I would highly recommend the Villa Carlotta to anyone visiting Florence. It is about a 20 to 30 minute walk into the center of town from the Villa via the Porta Romana, the Via Romana and the Ponte Vecchio. The hotel is beautifully situated in a seemingly upscale living area on the edge of the Boboli Gardens. The rooms are spacious as well as the bar and the dining area. There is a bit of lost old world elegance about the hotel, which I found extremely charming. The staff is very friendly and helpful and they all spoke english. They were even helpful in making telephone reservations for restaurants in the area. There is a free internet point in the bar area. The taxi ride to the airport costs 23 Euros. If I ever return to Florence, I will definitely plan to stay at the Villa again! |
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| From: Bernhard Weber, China |
| Date of Stay: October, 2007 |
| the hotel is very quite, in an upscale area of the city, not too far away from the center (about 15 minutes walk to Ponte Vecchio) |
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| From: Jean-claude Trevisan, Switzerland |
| Date of Stay: November, 2006 |
| We had a fantastic 3 days in Firenze. Hotel is well, quiet, and close from the center of the city. We used the bus line 13 to the city and line 12 from the city to the hotel while passing by the michelangelo, the frequency is about every 30 minutes, which is ok. |
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| From: Alejandro Adamowicz, Argentina |
| Date of Stay: October, 2006 |
| The hotel is located about 2km (a 20 minutes walk)from the Ponte Vecchio and the major attactions and monuments. I would recommend it to you specially if you arrive by car because they provide parking and it is included in the price. It is very easy to get to the hotel from the highway and the sourrundings are beautiful. The rooms are old style but they are clean. Breakfast is very good and the staff is competent and kind. |
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| From: Armand Ewen, Luxembourg |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| 30 minutes by foot to the center easy car parking at the hotel |
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| From: ROBERTO ORTIZ, USA |
| Date of Stay: August, 2006 |
| awesome little hotel, i felt right at home is not really a hotel is more like a luxurious bed and breakfast ,some type of an old mansion. the hotel is all for yourself, i wished i had some more time to spend it there without going out,unluckily we only stayed two nights on our way to rome |
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| From: James Frith, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: May, 2006 |
| The fantastic thing about Villa Carlotta for us was the setting. The walk back through the Boboli Gardens and then up the quiet leafy street to the hotel in the evening was just magic at the end of a busy day down in the city. Such a peaceful spot and yet within walking distance of everything we wanted to see. And thank you to the staff who were so helpful and made our stay a pleasure. |
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| From: Ludovic Righetti, Switzerland |
| Date of Stay: March, 2006 |
| The room was really small (smaller than on the pictures), not very clean. The faucet was borken. The room was old. The people not very friendly (breakfast). However the location was nice. |
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| From: Joel Cunningham, USA |
| Date of Stay: October, 2005 |
| The hotel is in need of a renovation. It feels old and dingy. It is over priced. |
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| From: David Cummings, United Kingdom |
| Date of Stay: September, 2005 |
| The hotel was what we hoped for, a quiet part of the city but not too far from the centre. Our only complaint was the breakfast, for the price of hotel it was limited in choice. |
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| From: NK, Italy |
| Date of Stay: May, 2005 |
| My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Villa Carlotta, which had been recommended by a colleague back in the USA. We were happy to be staying in such a quiet, lovely location, away from noisy Florence traffic, and only regretted that our stay was limited to one night. (We might have stayed two, but the villa was booked.) I believe we reserved the last room available for the night that we were staying, so we expected to have a small, undesirable room, but were pleasantly surprised to find our room quite large and relatively quiet, even though we were in Room 101, the first off the reception area. It helped that the villa has double doors installed across from our entranceway that can be closed to cut down on the noise at the front. We only heard noise once when guests were arriving, but it wasn't unpleasant or disturbing. If we were asked if there was anything negative to say about Villa Carlotta, there would be one minor and one possibly not-so-minor comment or concern. The porter referred to our "terrace," which was just a tiny space outside our room separated from the parking lot by a stand of trees. There appeared to be two other rooms that shared similar space to the left of our room, so it wasn't private/separated from others, you couldn't sit there (or wouldn't want to), and if you left your outside door open (which we did for awhile), someone could easily walk into your room. This didn't make any difference to us, because when we wanted to be somewhere other than our room, we sat in the very pleasant common areas. The second concern might be more relevant to other guests than it was to us. The food that we had at dinner was mediocre at best. The dining room itself is lovely (although downstairs and a bit cavernous, with no windows), our waiter (who also served us tea in the afternoon and cocktails before dinner) was extremely helpful and friendly, the service excellent, but the food was unmemorable except for it |
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| From: Stephan Laske, Austria |
| Date of Stay: May, 2004 |
| We have been at Villa Carlotta for the first time in October 1967 and have always chosen it being in Florence or on the way to southern Italy. And we will come back again ... |
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| From: MK, Austria |
| Date of Stay: September, 2003 |
| The room did not smell very well. |
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| From: Phu Trinh, USA |
| Date of Stay: September, 2002 |
| Overall my experience was average. The service was great but the experience from our room was not so good. We had bug bites and mosquito bites at night. The one positive point was that it was in a good location so it was quite. Our first impression was that it was not worth the 270 Euro that we paid for the room (given a 4-star hotel). I personally did not have good night sleep. We had a much better experience with a 3-star hotel we stayed in Roma (for 200 Euro). I hope this information is helpful. |
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| From: Donald M Henzi, Switzerland |
| Date of Stay: May, 2002 |
| Rooms are rather small. The garden is very tiny. Food is a bit boring. |
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| From: AR, Australia |
| Date of Stay: March, 2002 |
| Basically the hotel was adequate. But NOT outstanding. Food service was not good and breakfast was very ordinary. The coffee was terrible. |
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| From: John Treuge, Poland |
| Date of Stay: March, 2002 |
| This was my second stay at Villa Carlotta and I enjoyed the second as much as I did the first. I particularly like the intimacy of the villa. one critical comment is that the coffee served at breakfast was instant or tasted like instant. Requesting espresso or cappucino from the bar improved matters. |
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