The rooms are a vision in white: sheer white curtains around the immaculately-dressed (Frette) white bed, and sheer white curtains billowing around the open windows, and white Frette bed mats and white Frette slippers and white Frette bathrobes—and all this white juxtaposed with bleached oak flooring, a staircase of which leads up to the bath and dressing chamber, nearly an apartment unto itself, complete with balcony/terrace overlooking the Arno and the Ponte Vecchio.
Who wouldn’t feel positively virginal and pure? It’s perfection, complete with leather steamer trunk-desk, ingeniously fitted with a chair. Who wouldn’t want to write a letter here and lord it over those at home?
Public Spaces
Leave it the Ferragamos to get style just right.
From the intimate lobby with its wall-length movie screen focused on the happenings along the Ponte Vecchio to the Sala Relax overlooking the Ponte Vecchio, one is both immersed in the urban life, even while apart from, and above, it.
Sipping champagne, or espresso, above the crowds, admiring the rooftops of Firenze—it hardly gets better, although there is, in good weather, also a SkyLounge atop the hotel—where the views are even more splendid—and the Tuscan afternoons conceivably even more romantic.
Heavens, no wonder people faint here… And if that weren’t enough, there’s also a home theatre—a room so comfortably stylish, you might consider viewing the entirety of Italian cinema.
(Source: Lungarno Hotels Collection)
Breakfast
Superb—and served in a small and chic dining room across the hall from the salotto/salon. A buffet of the best of Italy’s bounty—to be savored at your leisure, as much as you want. You’ll yearn for this spread once you’re home—so much so that you might book the same trip all over again.
Staff
Oh, so pleasant—and pleasing to encounter. Every exchange seems a little amuse-gueule for the day.
Location
Perfect. Right where you want to be, near all that you wish to see, and yet out of the fray. A cul-de-sac, an enclave, a private entrance just off the main thoroughfare—unnoticed by the masses and all the banner-led tourist groups. And directly across the courtyard from another Ferragamo-run hotel, Gallery Hotel Art, with its delicious in-house restaurant (The Fusion Bar).
(Source: Lungarno Hotels Collection)
Overview
To encounter Firenze the first time, from this vantage point, surrounded by all that is the Continentale, and its sister properties, is to have obtained a slice of heaven—here on earth. It doesn’t get better.
LINK: Hotel Continentale
