Ostello Archi Rossi

The best hostel in Florence

Ostello Archi Rossi
Via Faenza 94r
tel. +39-055-290-804
www.hostelarchirossi.com
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Sights nearby
*** San Lorenzo leather market [market]
* Mercato Centrale [market]
** Medici Chapels [sight]
* San Lorenzo [church]
* Palazzo Medici-Riccardi [sight]
** Santa Maria Novella [church]
*** Baptistery [sight]
*** Duomo/Brunelleschi's dome [church]
* Giotto's Bell tower [sight]

Where to eat nearby
* Antichi Cancelli [meal]
* Da Mario [light meal]
* Da Nerbone [snack]

Other hotels nearby
Reid Recommends Albergo Azzi [cheap]
Hotel City [cheap-moderate]
Reid Recommends Hotel Mario's [cheap]
Hotel Berna [cheap-moderate]
B&B La Residenza Dell'Orafo [cheap-moderate]
Hotel Lorena [cheap]
Reid Recommends Archi Rossi hostel [super-cheap]
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The lobby/reception at Ostello Archi Rossi Hostel in FlorenceThe official HI hostel in Florence is waaaay out on the edge of town. That's why I prefer the Archi Rossi. It's right on Florence's main drag of cheap hotels near the station, making it for a far more central and fantastic value. Plus its walls are slathered with shockingly bad murals.

It's not nearly as nice as the staid Istituto Gould—but it's a lot more fun, is closer to the major sights, and comes loaded with freebies.

The Archi Rossi offers free Internet (with public computers not only in the lobby but in the rooms) and free WiFi 24/7. Want more? How about FREE FOOD! Yes, there is a free breakfast, including omlettes and scrambled eggs. In the off season (Dec. 29–Mar 31) they even lay out free pasta, pizza, and salad from 6pm to 8:30pm on every day but Saturday.

They even run free walking tours of Florence from 10am to noon—the tour covers the historic center one day, the Oltrarno the next.

They've even eliminated the old curfew (which nearly caught me out late once), though there is a cleaning lock-out of the rooms daily from 10am to 2:30pm.

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