Cheap Hotels in Florence: Compare Budget Rooms and Bases

Start with a property, rather than a cheapest-area rule

For a cathedral-focused search, compare San Giovanni, Dali and Giappone, which EuroCheapo places in the Duomo area. For arrival by train, investigate its station-oriented Abaco recommendation. For distinctive interiors, compare Bavaria with the small B&Bs below. This gives you several concrete candidates without treating an entire district as a single price band.

Use the broader guide to where to stay for the neighborhood decision, then return here to compare individual accommodation. If two rooms both serve your intended Florence itinerary, let the preferred room feature break the tie. A view might matter on a trip with time indoors; a particular arrival location might matter on a short rail stop.

Duomo: San Giovanni for outlooks, Giappone for street windows

EuroCheapo describes Hotel San Giovanni’s rooms as basic and says some offer Duomo views. Its description identifies Wi-Fi in common spaces, plus toiletries and a hair dryer in the rooms. We would put it on a cathedral-focused shortlist for the possible outlook. Establish which room offers that view before making it the deciding attraction.

Hotel Giappone offers a different comparison in the same Duomo-area list: a historic building, desks, televisions, air conditioning and free Wi-Fi. The guide describes many rooms with tall windows overlooking a shopping street. Compare that street outlook with San Giovanni’s cathedral-view possibility, then choose which setting you would enjoy returning to.

Choose between these candidates by asking what you want from the room after sightseeing. If the cathedral outlook is the attraction, identify the view category before selecting an offer. If a desk or shopping-street outlook is more appealing, start with Giappone. The exact category matters more than selecting either hotel solely because both appear under Duomo.

Hotel Dali: art and a lending library in the Duomo area

Hotel Dali is another Duomo-area option in EuroCheapo’s guide. The description highlights local artwork, antiques and a lending library, alongside air conditioning and free Wi-Fi. We would compare it with Giappone when the choice is between a room’s decorative character and its street outlook. It also gives a reader who enjoys browsing books a specific reason to investigate this property.

Bavaria: Santa Croce interiors and the entrance sequence

EuroCheapo places Bavaria in Santa Croce and describes arrival through a courtyard and up a large staircase. It highlights rooms with eighteenth-century frescoes and painted wooden ceilings, plus Wi-Fi in the common areas. We would investigate Bavaria when historic interior decoration is part of the pleasure of the stay, rather than only a backdrop to a central address.

The staircase makes the route to the room a useful deciding question for this particular candidate. Ask the property how the assigned room is reached if carrying luggage or using stairs affects your choice. Compare its painted interiors with Dali’s artwork and antiques: both offer decorative reasons to investigate, while Bavaria’s description adds a clearly identified entrance sequence.

Hotel Abaco: a Santa Maria Novella option for a rail trip

Hotel Abaco is EuroCheapo’s Santa Maria Novella recommendation. The guide describes a family-run property in a fifteenth-century palazzo near the main train station, with seven rooms and intricate decoration. We would start here when arrival or departure by train is important and the palazzo setting also appeals. Its intricate decoration also gives it a room-style reason to compete with the Duomo shortlist.

Compare Abaco with a Duomo candidate by separating your arrival from the days between journeys. Put the room address, the station and your planned stops on the same map. If the rail journey is the main constraint, Abaco merits an early place in the comparison. If the cathedral outlook is the leading attraction, San Giovanni may be the more interesting room to investigate.

Seven rooms describes the scale of the property. If a smaller hotel appeals, keep Abaco alongside the five- and six-room B&B profiles below while comparing offers. Choose the candidate whose location and interior appeal most, with another acceptable option in reserve.

Johanna I: compare a San Marco profile with small-B&B listings

EuroCheapo places Johanna I B&B in San Marco. Its room description includes individual decoration, mini fridges, flat-screen televisions and free Wi-Fi; it also mentions tubs and rainfall shower heads for mini-suites. We would investigate the named room category if that bathroom setup is a priority, rather than extend the mini-suite description to every room.

Secretplaces separately lists Residenza Johanna I as a low-budget B&B with six rooms under Historic Quarters. Use this entry as another search lead. Match the property name, address and room category when moving from either profile to a booking offer, so you compare the accommodation you actually intend to reserve.

Grand Tour and Antica Dimora: two medium-budget B&B styles

Secretplaces classifies Relais & Maison Grand Tour as medium budget and lists five rooms. It describes antique furnishings, a flower-filled courtyard and an Italian breakfast in an adjacent café. We would shortlist it for the courtyard and café arrangement if those are appealing parts of the morning you want. The breakfast location is useful to compare separately from whether a particular rate includes the meal.

Antica Dimora Firenze is also listed as medium budget, with six rooms in Historic Quarters. Its description focuses on individually styled pastel rooms, linen and silk, antique furniture and terracotta floors. We would compare it with Grand Tour as a choice of interior style versus the courtyard-and-café setting, rather than assume one has a broader facility list.

Medium budget is the collection’s classification, rather than a fixed spending limit. Keep these B&Bs in the comparison if their style is worth investigating for your dates. If you also want to consider a different accommodation style, use Luxury Hotels in Florence, Italy to broaden the search, then compare the exact rooms and features that interest you.

Locanda Orchidea: private bathrooms and one-to-three-guest rooms

Locanda Orchidea’s current operator page places the B&B in the historic center near the Duomo. It lists all rooms with private en-suite bathrooms, televisions, air conditioning, Wi-Fi and a coffee or tea maker, plus daily cleaning. The single category lists one guest, the double two and the triple three; each lists optional breakfast. This gives you a specific private-bathroom candidate to compare within the budget-oriented shortlist.

We would compare Orchidea with Giappone when practical room equipment leads the choice, then choose the offered category for the actual guest count. Price the breakfast arrangement you prefer alongside the room. For three travelers, start with the published triple category rather than assume an unspecified double can take an extra guest.

Compare complete room offers before choosing

Once two candidates appeal, compare offers for the same dates, guest count and bathroom requirement. Write down the payable total, meals included, cancellation conditions and any feature essential to you. A low headline figure cannot settle the choice if the room offered is not the one you wanted.

Give each candidate one concrete question that follows from its description: the view category at San Giovanni, the window outlook at Giappone, the entrance route at Bavaria or the café breakfast arrangement at Grand Tour. Then ask about any personal requirement the description leaves unresolved. This keeps the decision specific instead of sending every property the same long list of hypothetical problems.

Choose the room detail that earns its place in the budget

Start with San Giovanni for a possible cathedral outlook, Giappone for the described desk-and-street-window combination, Dali or Bavaria for decorative character, and Abaco for a station-oriented search. Add Orchidea for its published private-bathroom room formats. Compare the Johanna listings and the Grand Tour or Antica Dimora B&Bs when their room descriptions or settings appeal. Choose between complete offers for rooms you would be happy to reserve.