Villa Mangiacane

We enjoyed the typical Tuscan atmosphere of this hotel, its comfort, gastronomy, service and location. Very spacious and comfortable room. Elegant reception area with a cosy sitting area. Pleasant restaurant, excellent food and wines and friendly service. Pleasant outdoor sitting possibilities with views over the countryside. Great location to explore the northern Chianti region and only 18 km to Florence (no shuttle available). Some negative points : 6 light bulbs not working in the room when we arrived... and be sure to travel with some basic bathroom amenities (cotton pads, Qtips) and above all a box of Kleenex as there none in the hotel ! During our stay the main building of the hotel was privatized; we asked to have a quick look as we are researching a destination in 2018 to bring a party of 20 friends; no way, even escorted by a member of the staff. Nevertheless we enjoyed our stay and can recommend this property

Very nice staff, interesting winetour and tasting around the palaccio, fantastic view, very relaxing. Good tips to visit Florence and find the best typical toscanian food. Very complete breakfast, big choice

we had a blast. probably the best hotel we have ever visited. the reception /concierge was very helpful with reservations and all. We definitely want to revisit Villa Mangiacane in the future for a longer stay. best beliz & mert

Everything at the Villa Mangiacane was absolutely fantastic! The staff was fabulous and very attentative. Highly suggest doing the wine tour and tasting with lunch, the sommelier was great. The food was absolutely wonderful, best gnocchi the whole trip. The only complaints are that our a/c unit was working so we had to sleep with the windows open and got a couple mosquitoes and the suana wasn't working.

Villa Mangiacane is a magnificent 15th Century villa built by the Machiavelli family, bearing the unmistakable hand of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo. It is about 30 minutes outside of downtown Florence (about a E50 cab ride). It also has sort of a smaller hotel on the same property with rooms not physically in the villa at a lower daily rate. We had our wedding here so had high expectations since they bill themselves as a "small luxury hotel". For us luxury means high end rooms, great food, and superior service. Let's start with the rooms. If you get a room in the main Villa (which you have to in order to get married there) don't expect any privacy as the hotel staff parade potential visitors through the villa without notice. Also we had booked a room in the villa for 3 days of our stay and had our guests in the accompanying buildings. Once we booked a room there were supposed to be no other guests in the villa. Very frustrating is that they had a large party want the whole villa so they bumped us and only provided the room (afternoon) on the day of our wedding when we had lots of support staff lined up to do hair, set up music, take pictures, etc. This made the day overly hectic for us and showed a lack of honesty and ethics on the hotel's part especially since we had paid a 2/3rd deposit on all the rooms we booked. Also from a luxury perspective the view was amazing as was the property but the rooms were worn and run down at least in our opinion. For instance the plunge pools were dirty, walls cracked, chandeliers dirty and dusty, carpets worn. Also we only received one bath towel daily. Service....well we went into ethics above. We were told that the owners had not visited in over a couple of years and if that is the case it showed with the staff's attitude. That having been said, the chef and kitchen/serving staff were amazing. They truly went all out in making our stay and wedding amazing. It was definitely "luxury". Several of our guests remarked that the food service staff should be running the whole hotel. Food - we did not have a bad meal. The chef went all out to create interesting and solid dishes for our visit. Everyone one of our guests commented how fantastic the food was. Breakfast is a buffet and very varied. It has something for everyone and the staff is on the spot with coffee options. In short it was a good stay but we wish we had selected someplace else to get married, especially considering the great hotels in the Tuscany. We would not have called this a "luxury" hotel even by European standards and have stayed in other European boutique hotels for a lesser cost and much higher luxury. The saving grace was the food service staff that helped with everything including having to act as bell staff and other front desk services.