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The Fabio-lous Fashion of Food!
You think of Italy, you think fashion. You think of classic cuts, dark suits, bold accessories, slick heels and slim fits; you think style.
This imagery is as part of the fabric of the nation as is the cappuccino, the vespa and la pasta fresca; often combined into one stereotypical image of an immaculate businessman sauntering down a cobbled street on a brilliant red vespa, strolling into the bar opposite the office for a coffee and putting his order in for the linguini on the menu for lunch.
Another of Italy’s inherent images, projected and promoted as much on an international level as within the country itself, is of course food. An inescapable celebration in everyday life which relates to such a base human instinct and sense of pleasure that taking time to appreciate the food Italy has to offer is difficult to forgo. Try and justify the concept of a fad diet and it will very often be seen as an insult!
Interview with Domenico , manager of #1 B&B in Florence
1) When did your property first open? How many staff do you have working with you?
I opened on September 2000 and I have an employee.
2) How many rooms are available at your property? How would you classify your property’s target (luxury, tourists, students)?
We have 5 rooms and our target is mainly tourist looking for a luxury experience.
3) How many tourists do you receive each year? What are the most popular nationalities (and in what percentage of guests, roughly)?
Most of our guests are Americans. The remaining are European citizen, especially English, German and Spanish but also Australians and Canadians.
4) Why would you recommend a tourist should stay in a B&B rather than a Hotel? What is the best time of year to stay at your property?
The strengths of a B&B are the warm welcoming and the value for money. The B&B offers a quality like a 3 or 4 star hotel at a reasonable price with the acceptance and assistance that only a friend could reserve.
Every moment is the right one for staying at Cimatori and is always a good time to visit an art city like Florence; our great effort should be toward fall / winter time when the influx of tourism usually falls and competition, especially the big hotels, makes war on falling prices. Moreover on Fall and Winter you can visit the city better and there are less queues at museums. » Read more…