Hello, We will be arriving in Florence and picking up our car the day before we head out for Tuscany. We are looking for a nice place to stay for that one night that is near enough to the airport car pick up that we don't have to do a lot of driving that day. Any suggestions? Thanks so much!
Les
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San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
16232 posts
If you are not renting upon arrival, but rather the next day you should rent from a city office rather than the airport, you are likely to save some rental fees. The area near the airport is called Novoli. It's not the place I would choose to stay. Not because of safety of course (Ukiah is probably more dangerous) but because it's an ugly dormitory neighborhood full of high rise condos that shuts down in the evening. There is a new Hilton Garden Inn near the new Courthouse (the hugest and tallest Courthouse you'll ever see). Or you could go to Sesto Fiorentino (the suburb next to the airport) and stay at the Villa Stanley, just blocks from the University of Michigan Florence Campus. Either way you are a distance from Florence historical center. Change your car rental arrangements if you can.
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Seattle, WA, US
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I agree. Rent from someplace else if you can. The whole experience renting and returning the car from the florence airport (in 2011) was awful. they were doing construction at the time, so perhaps it's fixed now.