The location was great. Giada Hotel is located near SMN train station, across from the Medici Chapel, and a short walk to the Duomo, Accademia, Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio, etc. There is a market right outside the door, several restaurants, and a laundromat, internet/phone, and grocery store nearby. Beyond the location, however, I can't recommend much about this hotel. The staff ranged from indifferent and not particularly knowledgeable to downright rude and surly. The 6 euro/person breakfast was inadequate - neither plentiful nor particularly flavorful. Our room looked out onto the Medici Chapels and the market but that meant that beginning at about 3:30 a.m. each day we woke up to the sound of the vendors' carts being pulled into place on the cobbled streets. In addition, our room was right off the dining area which meant that we also heard the breakfast set up starting about 6:30. Our room was very spacious - clearly it was meant for more than two people - but the bathroom was tiny with a shower that didn't drain well. Our towels and sheets were clean when we checked in and I didn't mind not getting new ones during our stay but our towels didn't dry out within a twenty four hour period. The refrigerator in the room didn't work and we had to connect the cable for the tv ourselves.

For the price we paid for the room at least the breakfast was decent!
While European hotel bathrooms are smaller than what I'm used to in Australia, this one was absolutely tiny!
The bed wasn't particularly comfortable and our airconditioning unit only worked properly in the middle of the night... But, to be frank, the room was incredibly cheap and the service was generally quite good from the staff too - particularly the lovely guy who looked after the breakfast area in the mornings.
The location was great (right in the central market) and the hotel was easy to find as well.
Not sure I would stay here again - it would depend on what my budget was!

Not only was the location difficult to find; none of the staff spoke much English. Additionally as mentioned in previous reviews, the bald man (not sure of his name) was very, very rude and "eyed" my wife on multiple occasions. Our phone never worked during our 3 night stay. They originally attempted to set us up in a 10' x 6' room which contained 2 twin beds, we had paid for a queen/king bed option. Later in the day they moved us to a different/larger room yet it STILL had twin beds. Breakfast. although included in our stay was horrible. On two occasions the bread basket, & juice were empty as well as the stack of plates. While the location was right on the palazzo/market which is convenient for shopping, plan to be woken up every day between 4am and 5am due to the street vendors wheeling out their carts. It was clean and our second room was spacious. The window units that provided air conditioning also allowe mosquito's into our room; 10 or so bites on our face and arms are the result. So, all in all......unless you are planning to sleep on the street in a gutter - find a better hotel.

When we walked into the room we were shocked as it was very small. It really was a single room but had another bed put in there to make it a twin bedded room. The door to the bathroom could not open fully as a table/desk was in the way for the door to open. We could only open one of the wardrobe doors properly as the same desk/table was stopping that to open. We had a TV in the room but could not watch it as there was no arial to plug it into. The one and only electric plug wall socket in the room was pulled off the wall and was on the floor under the desk/table, so my husband had to get on the floor to plug the fridge in, we had to decide if we wanted the fridge or air con on as there was only the one socket. So we kept the fridge on and used the ceiling fan to keep the room cool. The bathroom was very small but functional. Both the room and bathroom was kept clean. The location of the hotel was great, we enjoyed Florence but would have liked a bigger room. There was only a restaurant for breakfast and we so no sign of a bar.