Flashbooking is a growing youth hostels and hotels directory specializing in budget accommodation for independent travellers, students, backpackers, families and all the ones that travel on a pocket. Flashbooking is becoming a recognized source of information and services for who loves creating a trip by him/herself and book bed nights securely online.
In fact, thanks to a secure server certified SSL provided by Thawte (the global certificate authority) Flashbooking is able to guarantee instantly confirmed and secure online bookings. Thawte is a system which encrypts all the processed data and guarantees that this will not be read, used or modified by other parties.
Online bookings also mean that your holiday is just a click away, that you can get all the information needed to book online, that you can save time and money! The customer service is always available to suggest you the perfect accommodation for your trip. A Skype account has been recently added in order to give more assistance to our travellers and backpackers needs. Flashbooking accommodation database is easily available online and comes completed with all relevant information about hostel location, description, contacts, prices, instant real availability, customer ratings, facilities and pictures. In particularFlashbooking provides a large selection of cheap or low cost accommodation offers in Florence where there are plenty of low cost solutions for backpackers in budget youth hostels, Bed and Breakfast, family run guesthouses, cheap hotel deals.
Travelling safely on a budget, often means having your credit/debit card with you and some coins in your hand for daily needs. Flashbooking helps you saving money with a special promotion that allows travellers to earn money and credits of 1,5 euros by inviting other friends to subscribe and receive the monthly newsletter, rich of information about hostel and hotel deals. For each friend that sings up, our travellers get 1,50 euros: it is possible to earn up to 40 euros! These credits are immediately registered in the user's personal online account 'My Booking' and at the reach of 40 euros they are automatically deducted to pay your online hostel reservations!!!
See Flashbooking database of selected accommodations worldwide and help us enlarging the hostel offer by reporting the contacts of some accommodations, lodgings, BandB, youth hostels and budget small hotels where you personally stayed. In fact, Flashbooking policy tends to privilege small and family-run hotels in order to promote an alternative tourism respectful of cultures and different societies.
Recently, Flashbooking staff and management have decided to put at travellers' and partner hostels' free disposal some useful tools as some pocket travel guides, written for giving the essential information about the most visited cities in the world. Especially created for a quick visit, a week end, a city break, these free pocket guides are printable and downloadable online. The staff efforts concentrate on making them simple to read and with a nice format and full of essential hints on where to go, things to see, shopping and markets, quality places reasonably priced where to eat or hang out in the nights, budget hostels and cheap hotel deals to book, emergency numbers and more.
Freshly issued is the Free Pocket City Guide of Florence that contains, in just 9 printable pages, all the essential information and very good suggestions about this famous Italian and Tuscany Art Capital as its renown leather shops and flea markets, Uffizi Museums, Academies and Art Galleries, budget Florentine restaurants and cheap lodgings, classic itineraries in the Chianti Tuscany hills or in Siena, transports and a lot more. Free for anyone who wish to book and go and rich of colour pictures, the Florence Travel Pocket Guide is at your disposal inFlashbooking.
If you also have a personal website or a travel blog, or even manage a youth hostel or a hotel accommodation, and are interested in the travel city guides, you can collect all of them and put at your visitors' disposal. Other city pocket guides of top European cities are: the London guide, the Rome guide, the Amsterdam guide, the Paris guide, the Prague guide, the Barcelona guide and more coming on soon!
Last but not least, the Flashbooking philosophy can be summarize in a few lines: 'Those who love travelling light, those with a sense for adventure, those who love flexibility in their trip, those who like meeting locals and travelling slow and low... THOSE ARE OUR TRAVELLERS!'
So mates, we are looking forward to finding you THE budget accommodation that meets your needs and pocket for your next trip!
The historic city centre is most representative of Florence. The layout of the district follows a road system created by the Romans. Florence is divided into five districts and the centre is divided into four sections namely San Giovanni, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and Santo Spirito Oltrarno.
You will see the enormous, imposing structure of the Duomo, with its Brunelleschian cupola, a beautiful dome that adds splendour to the city skyline. The city has also preserved its medieval network of streets, lined with regular, geometric Renaissance palaces such as Palazzo Strozzo and Palazzo Medici Riccardi, which once belonged to Florences powerful, oligarchic families.
Enjoy a vacation at any time of the year, with opportunities for recreation and relaxation that could include anything from shopping, sightseeing and wine tours to outdoor activities ranging from hiking, mountain biking and horse riding to snowboarding and skiing.
Find history and culture in every corner, tucked among the cities many piazzas, beautiful churches and fascinating museums. The spectacular Uffizi Gallery houses the works of such masters as Titian, Botticelli, Michelangelo and da Vinci. Dont miss the Duomo, the symbol of Florence, or the sunset over the Arno River and be sure to visit the Chianti region just south of the city for a taste of its famous wines.
It is famous amongst tourists and scholars for her glorious artwork, her cultural heritage, and the major role she played in the Renaissance and Humanist movements. All these facets combine to make this one of the most glorious cities in the world. It may be a small city, but she is extremely beautiful and a favourite meeting place for visitors and ex pats of all ages and nationalities.
Florence is a difficult city for neophytes. The sheer volume of people crammed into this centre of this Renaissance city can be overwhelming. But visiting out of season, when its cooler and queues are shorter, is a little more restful.
Holiday apartments and villas in Florence, cottage and farmhouse rentals are available to suit whatever your vacation rental requirements may be, so if youre seeking the ideal destination for a truly memorable Italian holiday, villa or apartment rental accommodation in Florence promises an experience that will appeal to people of all ages and interests.
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