My partner and I recently stayed at the Villa Florence during a mini vacation. This was our third trip to the city, and the first time we'd stayed at Villa Florence. Our previous two trips, we stayed in Japantown, but decided to go with something more centrally located, to make getting around easier. We chose the Villa Florence because they had a great price on a deluxe king room if we paid in advance.
Check in was very quick and easy, and they were able to accommodate our request for an early check in when we arrived earlier than we'd expected. We were offered a choice of an outside room facing the road, or an interior room, facing the courtyard. Having heard that street facing rooms were quite noisy, I went with the interior room, and was glad I did. No street noises, but you can still hear the people above you walking around very clearly, and one night there were very loud voices coming from the courtyard.
The room itself was nice, with the amenities you'd expect. People will complain that the bathrooms are very small, which they are. However, in a hotel of this style and this age, it's to be expected, and we still found it adequate for our needs.
I had read in other reviews that the beds could be a bit soft, but the one in our room was beyond soft, it was very broken down, to the point it was slanted, and this caused both of us quite a bit of back pain. For my partner it was so bad she had great difficulty sleeping while laying in the normal direction, so she ended up sleeping basically across the foot of the bed, where it hadn't broken down. She tried sleeping in the wing back chair in the room, but the foot rest provided was higher than the seat of the chair, causing her to sit at an awkward angle which pulled at her lower back even more.
Supposedly the hotel has a free basic WiFi connection, and a better one for a fee, however when I tried to connect with my iPhone, it only gave me the paid option, and quite frankly, even though we got a good deal on the room, for what we paid, I didn't feel compelled to shell out more money for what much lesser hotels offer as a free service to guests.
Overall, we enjoyed the stay, but the horrid quality of the bed would probably rule out our returning for another stay. I seriously urge management to replace the mattresses, because ours was sorely in need of it.
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