Looking for recommendations on great hotels in Florenece for families as well as top highlights to see and do. Best shopping?
Posted by
Chicago
2124 posts
If you're already on your trip--your past posts suggest you're in Rome right now--and haven't made hotel reservations in Florence by now, it's probably fruitless to give you list of great places, because no doubt they're already booked. Get online for availability, check the ratings and do the best you can.
Top shopping will be the high-rent area on via Tornabuoni, and then conversely, the stalls around Mercato Centrale. Good leather goods can be had at Massimo Leather on Borgo la Noce near the San Lorenzo market.
Posted by
Minnesota 🎒
16753 posts
Respectfully, Cari, it's a little late in the game! A good guidebook will list all the highlights; did you bring one? Some of those highlights also require advance tickets for open time slots to avoid very, very long lines during high season.
If you are sticking to schedule, you are driving from the Amalfi Coast on Sunday and only have a partial day (1 night) in Florence? If so, that's not going to give you time for much but a walkabout. Go see the Duomo, Ponte Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Piazza Michelangelo, and anything else you can squeak in. Or did you end up allowing more time?
We also don't know if you took the advice for using trains instead of a rental car: that can make a difference in choice of hotels in Florence.
From a previous post:
"Here's what our plan was to be: Arrive in Rome on a Monday. Stay Monday-Thursday in Rome. Drive to the Amalfi Coast for 2 days, Florence for a day, Venice for two days, and then back to Rome to fly out."