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Ostello Archi Rossi Hostel

Florence

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Via Faenza, 94r, Florence Tuscany, Italy   Map
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Features

  • Free Breakfast
  • Lockers
  • Bar
  • Lounge / Common space
  • Food/Restaurant
  • TV
  • Movie Library/Rental
  • Washing Machine (laundry)
  • Clothes Dryer
  • Elevator/Lift
  • Travel information provided
  • Free City Tours
  • 24 Hour Free Hot Showers
  • Phones (public or in room)
 
The Hostelz.com Review
A fun but not too wild hostel. The first thing you see when you walk in is the walls are hand painted with art inspired by famous paintings. Then when you go up the stairs there is the less formal art of drawings and quotes from people who have stayed in the hostel in previous years (graffiti basically). If you have nothing better to do with your time in Florence you could spend days reading the graffiti. Or you could also use the free internet. The rest of the hostel has a dining/TV room and there are upstairs and downstairs outdoor patio areas. The outdoor areas are especially nice, with stone sculptures, a fountain, and lots of folliage.

It's a social hostel and it's a good place to meet other backpackers. They do sell beer at the reception desk, but it's not really a party hostel. They don't take reservations and you need to show up early to get a bed (about 9 AM).

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Ratings & Comments

4.5 Average from 82 Ratings

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Comment by Jules, Canada
June 2009
5 Awesome!
This was by far my favourite hostel in Italy! First off, the rooms were really nice, with your own sink, huge lockers, and a computer with internet access. The washrooms were also really clean, and there were enough of them that you never had to wait more than five minutes to take a shower, no matter the time of day. The hostel is perfectly located like a five-minute walk from the train station too. If you're going to stay here you definitely have to do one, if not both, of the free walking tours. our guide was excellent, and you got to see a whole bunch of sites that you might have missed while walking around yourself. One top of all this, you get free breakfast and dinner! Which you get to pick off a menu with about eight different meal choices each time! It was amazing! Plus, there was a little garden and eating area outside which gave you the chance to meet a bunch of really cool people! Because of this hostel, Florence was one of my favourite stops on my trip! Ostello Archi Rossi is the place to stay in Florence!
Comment by Luigi Perzia, Canadian
May 2009
5 Great!
Clean, friendly, nicely located (Florence is small anyway). The hostel is pretty social, but not too wild. The staff controls the noise in the courtyard at night to ensure the guests are not disturbed. I will go there the next time I am in Florence.
Comment by Mandy, Canada
December 2008
5 Would come back again and again!
This is absolutely the most amazing hostel ever! First, it is no longer than a five-minute walk from the train station and was so easy to find. The staff were wonderful -- super nice and very accommodating. Rooms -- Amazing! Ours was very big and spacious with three bunk beds in it. The linens were all clean and wrapped in plastic -- we had to make our own beds but I didn't mind because then I knew the sheets were clean. we each had our own locker that were bigger than full school locker -- no doubt I could fit in it. You need to bring your own lock though obviously. There were even hangers in the locker. Each room had their own sink (so we didn't have to go to the washrooms to brush our teeth) and we also had our own computer. They had computer access but I couldn't figure out how to use it. Each bed also had their own light so you were disturbing other roommates. Washrooms -- Very clean. There were two on our floor and rarely had to wait in line. Internet -- There were easily ten computers down in the lobby with fast internet access. There was never a line up and it was unlimited use. Breakfast -- amazing! you had a menu to order from and could get anything from cereal and croissants to french toast and eggs! and it was all free. Absolutely incredible. Walking tours -- Do these free offered tours! There are two different tours alternating each day, we went on both. The guides were very knowledgeable and they really helped up to see all the parts of the city. Then we felt comfortable to venture out and find things on our own afterward to go back to the sites we liked. You could also leave the tour at any time so you didn't have to feel like you were locked in for two hours. In the end, I would definitely recommend this hostel to anyone and everyone! Just to give an idea of how popular it is, it was completely booked up when we were there in May and they were turning people away at the door (the hostel is very big too). It is close to everything and the staff were very helpful in recommending restaurants or places to go. It was by far the best hostel I have stayed at. We met so many people. It was mostly a younger crowd but I would recommend it to any age group. Definitely stay here if you go to Florence!
Comment by Lizzy Henry, USA
November 2008
5 Fantastic minus the breakfast
the french toast here sucks. but other than that this place is amazing. i would recommend it to everyone and their neighbor. its super convenient having a computer in each room, along with a heater and a shower. this hostel is very professional looking, but its still charming. oh, and its pretty easy to find.
Comment by Renato, Brazil
October 2008
5 Simply Excellent
These guys are Pro! Very clean, well located, and excellent structure and breakfast. I recommend!
Comment by opb.travel
April 2008
5 What a good place
Wow. What a place. I never thought I will find a hostel like that in Italy, and there is was. Clean, not to big or impersonal, great breakfast (they even have egg dishes) for free, nice dorms with bathroom, free internet downstairs and in the room (Wi-Fi), nice garden, super friendly staff, good prices for food and drink, cheap and very tasty homemade style dinners, free Florence walking tours. Right on, the Archi Rossi in Florence is a hostel worth talking about on many continents. Six stars, oops, only five possible here.
Comment by natalie, USA
April 2008
4 Pretty nice
this is a pretty big and nice hostel. the staff is really friendly and helpful, there's about six computers with internet but there's usually a wait to use them. however there is a pretty cheap internet cafe right across the street. the walls are all covered with graffiti and art from various guests which gives it a really cool vibe, and the rooms themselves are pretty big with decently sized locking wardrobes. it also has a complimentary breakfast that was pretty good. the downsides to this hostel are its 2 a.m. curfew (we actually ended up getting back one night at about 5:30 and had to wait for the hostel to open up in the morning to get back in), there's only two or so bathrooms per floor so there was sometimes a wait to shower, and about two days after we arrived, my self and two of my friends ended up getting a rash that slowly spread over our body. it was too bad, and i can't be certain what caused it (i don't think it was anything in the room since my other friend and our roommates didn't get a rash). i think it was the soap we were given at the front desk, since my friend that didn't get the rash was the only one that didn't wash his clothes while we were there. i'd recommend this hostel to most people, but maybe not to the more wild people out there that plan on staying out late and making lots of noise when they come in.
Comment by Garrett, USA
July 2007
5 Great place
I really liked this hostel. Everything was clean, the internet was free, location was great (and hostel was easy to find), and the breakfast was probably the best I had at any of the hostels I stayed at on my trip. The place has a neat atmosphere as well. There's a nice outdoor terrace and the hallways have graffiti written all over them, which is kind of neat. I would definitely stay here again. Lockers in the room. Free internet. Free breakfast.
Comment by jacki, usa
July 2007
5 Good hostel
Great hot breakfast available. Free internet limited to thirty minutes a day, but decent. Interesting frescoes/paintings/graffiti everywhere. Cheap drinks and snacks at the reception. Big lockers in the room for each bed. Pretty close to train station. Pretty nice staff. Pretty good place overall.
Comment by Reuben, New Zealand
June 2007
5 Clean, friendly, and excellent location
This is a great hostel, clean facilities, friendly and helpful staff, and is close to the train station as well as being within walking distance to the main attractions.
Comment by Susan, USA
May 2007
3 Very clean
This place was clean, and in a decent location not very far from the train station. It is a fairly social place, although it does not have a bar. The breakfast is huge also, which is nice. The only problem was the staff was rude and "reservations" don't seem to mean much there.
Comment by Kris, Canadian
May 2007
4 Great hostel. The young italian guy at the front is super helpful. they even let me keep my bag for the weekend free while i went out of the country. overall all a great place to go -- free internet and breakfast, lots of interesting people, very close to the train station so i would definitely recommend it.
Comment by umesh, Indian
April 2007
5 one of the best hostels I have ever stayed, very helpful counter staff, nice ambiance, nice breakfast. in short, everything nice here. Will definitely come back here.
Comment by Barbara, US
March 2007
4 I stayed here 2 nights in January 07. The price seemed reasonable, and everything was pretty clean. The location of the hostel is great, it's right by the train station, and I felt safe walking around alone at night. It's also close to the city center. I would stay there again.
Comment by Maria from USA
February 2007
5 Archi Rossi is one of the best hostels I stayed at in Europe. Even though the showers are a bit scarce if you are in a shared shower situation, the breakfast is excellent, rooms are clean, and the vibe is awesome. It's not a drinking-all-night/party hostel for twenty-year-olds, but a very social one and conducive to meeting cool people. I'd recommend it to anyone and so happy I stayed here!
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