B&B HOTEL Calenzano First

Decent hotel with average breakfast. The restaurant offers good quality Tuscan food.

It is absolutely not a four (4) stars hotel. Hospitality and welcoming is deficient. Hotel staff was not friendly and not helpful. The hotel needs a lot of maintenance and renovation. We had water coming in the room from the shower and the air conditioning was making so much noise. We had to change room.
The breakfast was basic.
Only thing positive was the location, parking and the restaurant next door.
I do not recommend this hotel.

All reveiws are of the reveiwers opinion, this Hotel was chosen for us as a cheap package touring Italy by train and suited our needs, a fair distance from firenze, accessed via the tram from firenze to the airport from there becomes a little difficult to locate bus stops for Hotel, so took taxi @ €25.
Upon arrival, hospitality a tad cool: — (Hotel in need of tlc, only charging points in bathroom, no tea making facilities, sound travels, although good nights kip. Bar opens at 7pm althou no atmosphere and felt like a hassle 🤦‍♀️
Positives! Super easy to access train from patigone to pisa via a 10 minute stroll, surrounded by shopping malls & excellent eateries, right next door, so rough with the smooth, all in all an interesting stay 😄

How did they get 4*?
It is from far the worst 4* hotel I've been to. It should only have a 1*.
The hotel is old and needs a full renovation. It's a bit creepy to be fare.
There are a lot of moisture on the ceiling of the corridor, the bed was uncomfortable, the TV is 15 years old.
The area of the hotel is a disaster, but there is a parking.
The swimming pool area close at 7h30, and normally you can't even have a drink around. The personal was great with us, made an exception, and let us have one there.
Breakfast is fine. Parking is free.
The price is not so bad for what you get.

Hotel First is situated near the town of Calenzano, Tuscany. It is a 25 minute train ride from Florence.
The hotel is a 10 minute walk from the train station, get the Patagione stop not the Calenzano stop or you will be a 30 minute walk from the hotel. Trains are hourly until around 6pm, but not all trains stop there.
The hotel bedrooms were very spacious and clean, beds weren't particularly comfortable, but ok. The biggest complaint I had was that they have hung the curtains about 30cm back from the actual window, and whilst looking straight on this is fine, when in bed there is a HUGE gap between the window and the wall which results in you being woken at 5am when the sunlight hits the room. The other issue is that the ground floor rooms do smell quite strongly of cigarette smoke, even though the hotel rooms are all non-smoking, not sure if this is a legacy issue, or whether some people were having crafty cigarettes but it was really noticeable.
Hotel breakfast had a lot of choice and we dined twice in the restaurant in the evening which we found to be very good and reasonably priced for a hotel.
Hotel staff were very friendly and helpful and understanding of my poor Italian. They nearly all spoke excellent English, which made things easier for us.

Poor hotel. I still stay in the hotel and every two days there is no hot water! It's midnight, we have an 11-month-old son and since there is no hot water in the bathroom I tried to heat the milk at the reception but the answer was that the bar and restaurant were already closed and now they had to serve customers!. Customers who were also shocked by the way they abused the child. But even so, the receptionist has not found a solution. A hotel to avoid for sure!

Nice Hotel, friendly people, good service. Hotel has good restaurant, clean rooms.