Hotel Savoy
Getting there
- Planes Fly to Florence Airport (otherwise known as Amerigo Vespucci or Peretola Airport), which is about 20 minutes from the Hotel Savoy by car. You can pick up a taxi from the airport (you’ll spend about €20 to reach the hotel), or make use of the half-hourly bus from the airport to the central Santa Maria Novella train station. A one-way bus ticket will cost €6. You can also fly to Pisa (Galileo Galilei) airport, which is served by a greater number of airlines from the UK, including Ryanair, EasyJet, British Airways and Thomson Airways. You can get to the centre of Florence in about 45 minutes on the direct train from the airport, which costs about €5 for a single ticket. Otherwise, the hotel offers transfers to and from the airport or train station for an extra charge.
- Trains Florence’s main train station, the Santa Maria Novella (behind the piazza of the same name) is conveniently only a few minutes’ walk from the Hotel Savoy. You can nip to Rome and back in a day (it takes less than two hours to get there on the high-speed train), and plenty of other connections are available within Italy and across Europe (Naples, Pisa, Rome and Siena, for example, as well as Nice and Vienna).
- Automobiles The hotel is ideally placed to explore the centre of Florence by foot, and driving in the busy city centre can be difficult; instead, hail a taxi, or hop on one of the many orange buses that service the city centre (buy your tickets in advance from designated vending machines and tobacco shops). However, four wheels will be essential if you plan to visit the the surrounding Tuscan countryside. You can hire a car at the hotel or the airport, and private parking is available at a nearby car park for €45 per day, although you will need to reserve a parking space in advance.
Hotel Savoy 7 Piazza della Repubblica, Florence, 50123
