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The Luna
Rossa hostel was almost next to the Firenze Santa Maria Novella station.
We entered through the largest door we'd ever seen, past an internal security
gate and then through the entrance to the hostel. We were greeted by Marco,
the owner and runner of the hostel. He welcomed us in, checked our passport
details (we needed to show our passports for each hotel / hostel we visited)
and then gave us a map of Florence. Onto this he gave us a quick run down
of where the major sites were in Florence drawing them onto our new map.
This proved to be very helpful for later when we would explore the city.
All hotels / hostels should give you a map if you don't already have one.
Our room turned out to be very good. It was large and confortable. It
had satellite TV (not that we'd go all the way to Italy to watch TV though).
One really good feature was that we had internet access in our room. Yes
in our room. Very handy for emailing back home and for double checking
our future trains. It saved us the hassle of having to find an internet
cafe.
There were two shared bathrooms that we could use. There was a separate
sink which we could use for teeth brushing. All were clean and had everything
we needed.
The kitchen had all the crockery and cooking equipment you might want.
There was even a washing machine in there. This place does have everything
you could want. Not surprisingly this has very high scores on Hostel World
and has been the top rated hostel there many times.
Breakfast is not included but we made use of a local supermarket to
buy some cereal, milk and strawberries which we stored in Luna Rossa's
fridge.
On Thursday evening we walked around the market area which is just a
few minutes walk from the hostel, and had dinner at a restaurant near to
the Piazza del Duomo. |