Hotel Helvetia & Bristol

Very nice stay at this hotel, top notch staff especially all the concierges! Location is perfect Thank you everyone for making our stay as nice as possible I would definitely come back and stay again..

Came with my wife for a week end and truly enjoyed our stay. The staff is very attentive and professional. Food is also excellent! Sound prof is not ideal in the rooms. Will definitely return! Hope next time will be able to stay longer.

This is an incredibly charming hotel in the center of Florence and we couldn't be any happier about the accommodations. The staff is always friendly and very helpful. The lobbies are comfortable for relaxing and having a drink or snack. The rooms are spacious enough with elegant, marble bathrooms. they are not huge rooms but they are very cozy and have plenty of space for comfort. The shades are black-out, so if you want to sleep late, it's great. Basically the rooms are very well appointed and there are no hassles whatsoever. A hidden gem is the hotel restaurant where we have enjoyed our lunch twice, even though there are many hundreds of choices. We highly recommend this hotel and restaurant.

If it helps readers at all: we went back. Back this beautiful property where even the most basic room choice will create indelible memories of one of the world's great cities, from the most personal of touches to the service gestures from start to finish. Living like royalty for less than you'd ever imagine. They say you can't go home. And choosing to stay again at the Helvetia we thought hmmm, maybe it won't live up to the last experience (one about which I wrote/gushed on a blog posting a few years back)....ha! they said - come back, it's better than ever. And they were right. And, tellingly, the experience surpassed our stay a short while before in a riverside room on the banks of the Arno. And for those who like hearing about things practical in reviews: we had an issue with our room a/c, and without staff and management missing a beat we were switched a a room that, even though we were only in Florence for one night, again, as before at this hotel, was a memorable, unforgettable highlight of our time in Tuscany. And further on the practicality front: be sure to reserve for the hotel's restaurant for dinner if at all possible in you schedule. And the breakfast a la carte selections are excellently done.

A well located, well maintained hotel in central Florence. Old fashioned, but pleasant surroundings, good service-sometimes excellent, a useful business center. Hotel is a block from main shopping street, Via Tornabuoni, and a short walk to Uffizi or railroad station.