“Quiet and relaxing”

Hotel staff were excellent; reserving tickets for us, looking up train times, etc. Can recommend hotel's own wine and oil, we enjoyed and would recommend taking the hotel's winery tour. Excellent train service into Florence centre. Restaurant offered wonderful food at reasonable prices. Would go back tomorrow.

“great experince”

Great to stay in a well kept place with so much history. Very convienvent for train access to Florence and anywhere else(20 min) Fantastic help at the front desk. I wuld definitely recomend staying there again. It is too bad they don't have a book with the history of the hotel or area. Also the food in the town piazza is great!

“Great spot”

WE loved this hotel. The restaurant is terrific and it is close to the most adorable piazza. The piazza is filled with great restaurants too. I highly reccommend that you rent a car because the best parts of Tuscany are not in walking distance. Greve in Chiati and Rada in Chiati is great for winery hopping. Without a car you are pretty much stranded with nothing to do. Do not expect the town to be country side. It is a busy town. If you want a typical Tuscan country view stay in a more rural area like the chiati region itself.

“A unique experience”

This hotel has retained its Renaisance character combined with modern facilities and service. Figline itself is a genuine Tuscan town set on the edge of an area which is quite built up. It does have a fine square and plenty of character. The Casagrande is on the edge of the old town. It is convenient for the station (Florence in 35 minutes) and for drives to other major cities and towns throughout Tuscany. The villa is not over-restored, but has an impressive new entrance. Guests really should take the opportunity to tour the private parts of the villa. The restaurant is excellent, great food, not over-priced, good wine, outstanding service. (Wine lovers should ask Stefano for his recommendations). Overall the staff could not have been more helpful. This was our second visit after an interval of 12 years, and although much has been restored the character, authenticity and integrity remain.

“Experience the Tuscany and Florence from Figline Valdarno”

Hotel Villa Cassagrande is just 20 mins drive south of Florence. To stay in this hotel and see the neighbourhood is like reliving history. We used this hotel as a base to drive to Pisa, Siena, Florence and Factory Outlets. The hotel staff are very helpful, the standard room had a little musty smell but otherwise is fine. The buffet breakfast is better than average. Internet connection in the room was weak at best and that was in the bathroom.

“Would go back..”

This was a beautiful hotel and surroundings. The two disappointments for our stay was that the room we stayed in was extremely dark with only one small window facing another wall and that the walls were paperthin. They were so thin that you could have carried a conversation with the travellers next door. Apart from that, breakfast was great. I highly recommend the restaurant for dinner as the service was very friendly and food was wonderful. Overall, I would stay here again..just in another room.

“Very Picturesque”

beautiful place and the food is wonderful.

“Superb hotel in beautiful setting”

Absolutely superb hotel set in a superb historic building in a very pretty historic town. Staff were all very helpful, service was excellent. Only mark off is for a very hard bed!

“A very mixed bag”

The Hotel Villa Casagrande should be an amazing hotel and isn't. It is a beautiful building in gorgeous gardens but is so poorly managed that one wonders if there is indeed a manager. Nobody seems to care about the place - small eg: there should be tables and chairs in the lovely gardens. Beware when booking! Distinction is drawn between Standard rooms and Superior rooms. The Superior rooms, in the main hotel building, are renovated and tasteful but the Standard rooms are very poor - unless you like your room rustic and scruffy. The hotel cleaning staff (we saw no sign of an outside staff) is pleasant, the restaurant staff is great (if run off their feet) but the reception staff is the worst we encountered in Italy. We saw 5 or 6 different faces in our 5 day stay, only one of which resembled helpful. It would have been impossible for the others to care less. Guests are a complete nuisance to them. Perhaps it's because the hotel is a coach stop-over?