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B & B Marbo Florence Accommodation & Rooms
- Free breakfast and free WiFi
Main amenities
- 10 smoke-free guestrooms
- Coffee shop/café
- Self parking
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Luggage storage
- Tour/ticket assistance
What's around
- In Santa Maria Novella
- Fortezza da Basso (0.4 mi / 0.6 km)
- Santa Maria Novella Basilica and Museum (0.4 mi / 0.7 km)
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (0.7 mi / 1.2 km)
- Ponte Vecchio (0.9 mi / 1.5 km)
- Florence Baptistery (0.7 mi / 1 km)
Just a short walk from Stazione Santa Maria Novella. Within stones' throw away from…
Staff are great but the entrance into it is like a block of flats if your looking for…
B & B Marbo Florence Accommodation & Roomsfrom ZAR 1,410
- Double or Twin Room
- Triple Room
- Quadruple Room
- Standard Double Room Single Use
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 10 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 1 PM-7:30 PM
- Check-out time is 10:30 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (2 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
Extra people
- Rollaway beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Self parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Free breakfast
- Coffee shop/café
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1900
- Elevator/lift
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Down comforter
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Memory foam mattress
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Shower only
- Bidet
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Pay movies
- Digital TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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- B & B Marbo
- B & B Marbo Florence
- Marbo Florence
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.50 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
Self parking is available for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.2 /5 from 103 reviews
Everything was good about this place except for entrance to the B&B (building was smelly). Once you are in your room - it is back to being awesome. Also, was tough to find it (had to call and ask for directions) - only because there is no big board outside.
The hotel was great and the hotel hosts were amazing as well. We loved everything about the hotel including the free breakfast and hand-crafted cappuccino every morning. The only thing we didn't love as much is that it is slightly behind the train station versus towards the Duomo or main attractions - which meant we had to walk a little longer. Also, the hotel is conveniently next to a bus stop, which also means there are always people gathered around the hotel entrance. Overall, we had a great hotel stay while in Florence.
Everything was simply great at B&B Marbo! The host is super friendly and hotel is easy to find. The hotel location is very near (abt 5mins walk) to the Firenze train station, and it is also near (abt 6mins walk) to bus station where you can catch the bus to The Mall and bus to the Airport. Room is very clean and comfortable; interior of hotel is very new too. My friend and I really have a very wonderful stay at B&B Marbo! We would highly recommend this place to anyone who wish to book a stay at Florence!
This small B&B is run by 2 very friendly and helpful brothers. We rented a room for 3 adults and it was clean, spacious and very comfortable. The B&B is located near the SMN train station, so it's close to everything. Be aware that streets in Florence are numbered in "red" and "black", so once you think you have reached your destination, you haven't. You need to keep going to the next block, where number start up again. Constatino (one of the brothers) was the one we interacted with and his recommendation for dinner was Outstanding (good price, amazing steaks). I would make a beeline for this place the next time I'm in Florence.
Arrived in Florence from Venice and was not real sure what to expect. Finding the entrance to the Marbo was tricky. If you do not know that in the city of Florence, businesses have light numbers on their facade and residences have dark numbers, you can get lost trying to find your destination. After going to the wrong #25, we were able to find the right one (dark number) pretty quickly, right down the road. When you walk through the front door and see how narrow the hallways are, you immediately start to think that this place is going to be way too small. BUT, to our surprise, the room (a triple) was quite spacious! The room was clean and bright and unlike most B&B's, had its own heating and air conditioning unit. The front door staff were helpful and super nice. Each day they cleaned the room and supplied fresh clean towels and toiletries. The breakfast was ample and helped get the day started. This place was a 10!!
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Roses lose a leaf once in a while, nothing to worry about. Looks like they may be really wet though. Probably not that way all the time, had it just rained?
I had just got done watering. I check the soil always before I water it. I have that Rose in very well drained soil. So it seems like it gets dry quicker than my other ones. So you do not think it's a disease?
My first thought when I looked at the leaves was that the symptoms could be from overwatering--how are you checking if the soil has dried out? If you're just looking at the surface that can be very deceiving since it can dry out quite quickly while an inch or two down it's still wet. So if you aren't already, I'd try checking down a few inches with a finger, wooden skewer, etc to see if it really needs to be watered.
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text: Climate Change Study Singles Out the Rich – All of Themby BC Upham on Wednesday, Jul 8th, 2009 ShareClick to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) One of the long standing grudge matches in climate talks has been between developed countries, like the US, who believe greenhouse gas emissions should be curbed in every country across the board, and developing countries, like China and India, who argue it's unfair to make them drastically curb pollution as they grow, something rich countries never did. A study published Monday (PDF) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests a work-around: capping the emissions of "high CO2-emitting individuals," aka the global wealthy, aka the majority of the people reading this blog, wherever they live, Beijing or Buffalo, London or Lagos. No More than $39,000 a Year, Please The study relies on a basic rule of thumb: the richer you are, the more you tend to consume, and thus the more CO2 you tend to produce. In order to cap global CO2 emissions at 30 gigatons by 2030 (approximately 2008 emissions), each individual on the planet can emit no more than 10.8 tons of CO2 a year, according to the study. This translates to about $39,000 a year in income on average, though the actual income threshold would vary by country. In other words, anyone making more than their national threshold would be a high CO2-emitting individual, and thus subject to caps. In 2030, this would be about 1.1 billion people out of a total population of 8.1 billion. The advantage of this formula is that, as countries get richer, their CO2 reduction obligation would automatically grow, bringing them into the climate treaty fold gradually. Taxation Without Representation? The authors of the study dodge the question of how countries would actually cap the pollution of their rich polluters. But by linking pollution directly to personal income, they indirectly suggest an obvious solution: increased taxes on the high-emitting wealthy, which in the US would be the majority of the population. Penalizing a country for generating wealthy people could be a tough sell, especially if it's seen as the sort of "foreign meddling" that opponents of climate treaties fear. And then linking that to higher income taxes, well… Shoibal Chakravarty of the Princeton Environment Institute, one of the study authors, told Reuters they're not suggesting increasing taxes on the rich — but they're not not suggesting it either. "We are not by any means proposing that. If some country finds a way of doing that, it's great," he said. BC (Ben) Upham is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. He has written for the New York Times, and was a writer and editor for News Communications, Inc., a local paper consortium serving Manhattan. When he's not blogging on green issues -- and especially renewable energy -- he's hiking in the Angeles Mountains or hanging out at El Matador. Follow BC Upham @triplepundit 4 responses Would it not make more sense to charge more for consuming resources, such as gas or oil and then to tax the greater economy for clean up? The trouble with just raising the prices of particular commodities is that it can be regressive. "Taxing" the entire society has the benefit (and possible detriment) of allowing the society as a whole to allocate the burden. This is really intriguing though extremely difficult to imagine implementing or enforcing. However the concept that the individual, defined by income level, becomes responsible–and penalized– for contributing to the environment regardless of where he lives is what interests me. That would not be regressive. But would someone change his lifestyle in order to avoid a steep tax on consumption of energy or might he pay a tax which could be used to fund alternative sources, clean the environment and so forth? I agree that this would be virtually impossible to implement. I don't see a way around taxing resources up front. Comments are closed.


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It's Venom btw, the album title
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Some of the type didn't transfer well in the Kindle. It's mainly just some of the titles for recipes and a few of the servings numbers at the end of recipes. Also, some of text boxes were not aligned correctly. It wasn't too a big of a deal though. I was able to figure out the proper placement based on context.
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Justin Cronin: How I Wrote The Passage
You write the book that asks to be written, and The Passage asked me to write it on a series of long jogs in the fall of 2005, taken in the company of my daughter, Iris, age eight, who rode beside me on her bicycle.
For many years, running has been part of my writing ritual. I do my best creative thinking while running, which I have come to understand as a form of self-hypnosis. It's where I get my ideas, but not just my ideas; on the best days, whole paragraphs seem to drop into my head. I like to say that I write while running; at the computer, I'm just typing.
That fall, four years ago, my daughter asked if she could come along. We had done this from time to time, back when she was first leaning to ride a two-wheeler, and I'd always enjoyed it, even if her presence was a bit of a distraction from the mental work I was actually doing. But it was September, blazingly hot, and the novel I was working on was in a bit of a stall. Sure, I said. Get your stuff.
To understand this story, a person would need to know something about my daughter. Iris is simply the most voracious literary consumer I have ever encountered. She reads two or three books a day and has since she was little. She reads while eating, bathing, and walking the dog. She reads while watching television (I'm not sure how), in the backseat of the car, and standing in line at the movies; I have actually seen her reading on a roller coaster. There is always a book somewhere on or near her person, and she goes to sleep every night listening to audiobooks—in other words, she reads while sleeping, too. Once, just to satisfy my curiosity, I surreptitiously timed the rate at which she moved through the pages and discovered she was reading at twice the rate I do. I am probably the only parent in the history of the world who has uttered this sentence: "Your mother and I have decided that, as your punishment, you will not be allowed to read a book for the rest of the week."
In sum, Iris is the reader every writer longs for--when she loves a book, she loves it unreservedly--but she is also the critic we all fear, capable of skewering a novel she doesn't like with the most withering sarcasm. Her verbal parodies of Jane Austen, for instance, a writer I am certain she will someday like but for now considers pompously dull, are scarily dead-on.
That day as we set out, our conversation naturally turned to books and writing, and Iris made a confession: your books, daddy, are boring. She said this offhandedly, as if she were telling me something I probably already knew, which I took to mean that my novels were too grown up for her, and dealt with subjects in which she had no interest. I might have been offended but I was mostly surprised; I didn't know she'd read them. (I was quickly calculating what inappropriate material she would have encountered in their pages.) But when I asked her about this, she said she hadn't read them, not exactly; she knew my books were boring, she explained, from their covers, and the summaries on the flaps. Well, that's literary novels, I explained, relieved. Sometimes it's hard to say exactly what they're about, in so many words. To which my daughter rolled her eyes. That's what I mean, said Iris. Boring.
"Well what do you want me to write about?" I asked.
She took a moment to think. We were running and riding, side by side, moving down the flat, wide sidewalk of our neighborhood in the autumn heat.
"A girl who saves the world," she said.
I had to laugh. Of course that's what she'd want me to write about. Not just a town, say, or a small city, but the entire world!
"That's a tall order," I said. "Anything else?"
She thought another moment. "It should have one character with red hair," said my daughter, the redhead. "And…vampires."
This was before every teenage girl in America had gone crazy for vampires. I knew absolutely nothing about them, beyond the common lore.
"The redhead I get. Why vampires?"
She responded with a shrug. "They're interesting. A book needs something interesting in it."
It was a classic dare, and I knew it. Writer Rule #1 is Never Let Anyone Else Tell You What to Write. But I also knew we had five hot miles ahead of us.
"OK," I said. "Let's do it together. We'll work it out together as we go."
"Like a game, you mean," Iris said.
"Sure. We can toss ideas around, see if we can work it into a story. Who knows? Maybe it will be good and I can write it."
She agreed, and across that fall to pass the time of our afternoon run-rides, we began to formulate the plot of a novel, one hour each day. An orphan girl (her), and an FBI agent who befriends and fathers her (me). A medical experiment in lengthening human lifespan, and a global catastrophe. A hundred years of lost time, and a mountain outpost in California where the last of the human race awaits the end, until a day when a girl—that same girl—appears out the wilderness, to save the human race. Each afternoon after she came home from school we would pick up where we'd left off, and gradually the story and its details came into shape. In the evenings, we'd tell my wife about what we'd come up with, and so she became part of the process too, blessing or dismissing our ideas, offering some of her own to fill the spaces. I kept saying, Isn't this a gas? I can't believe how good our daughter is at this. I had no sense that this was any type of story in particular, literary or commercial, for any particular audience beyond ourselves, and I didn't care; we were just having fun, telling a story around the campfire. Despite what I had said, I had no intention of actually writing the thing, writing and talking being in the end two entirely different matters, one much more work than the other.
And then a funny thing happened. As the weeks went by, I began to think this story actually could be a book, and that it was actually a better book, a much better book, than the one I was actually supposed to be writing. And not just one book: saving the world seemed like the kind of undertaking that would take three books to accomplish. The story that became The Passage had begun to fill my head, to breathe and walk and talk--to be populated, as someone once said, by "warm new beings" I actually believed in. Amy and Wolgast. Peter and Alicia (the redhead Iris had requested). Lacey and Richards and Grey and Sara and Michael-the-Circuit--a character who is a kind of boy-Iris, actually, and very much her creation. I had been a literary novelist all my professional life, with a literary novelist's habits and interests; but I had cut my reader's teeth on plenty of genre fiction--adventure novels, science fiction, westerns, espionage. Enough to know that in the end it's how you write the thing that matters, and if you love it. Be interesting, Iris had told me. There's no harm in it, and your reader will thank you. It seemed like good advice. For three months, Iris and I traded ideas back and forth like a ball we were moving downfield; by December, when the cold weather came and her bicycle went into the garage, we had the plot worked out, right down to the final scene. I felt sad, as if something wonderful was ending, and I decided not to let it end; I sat at my computer and began to write an outline, so I wouldn't forget it.
And when that was done, I decided I would write the first chapter. Just to see how it felt.
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The first third of this book is absolutely excellent. I was totally gripped. There is something really cinematic about Cronin's descriptions of devastation and chaos, and the scenes played out in my head as if I was watching them on the big screen straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. What's more, we meet a host of engaging and human characters who I was sorry to leave behind as the story moved on in time.
Unfortunately my interest dipped in the middle third of the novel, as the focus moved to Peter and the other inhabitants of The Colony. I didn't really find him to be a particularly inspiring hero, nor did I like any of his friends or neighbours. Much of this section seemed superfluous to the plot and I think I would have enjoyed the book just as much had large sections been cut.Read more ›
The tale is clearly split into two parts and I much preferred to first part which is set in the near-future. The character of six year old Amy is intriguing and I still don't fully understand all of the early events in the book. I am unclear about how such a young child had such a strong sense of her destiny. I think I may need to re-read it. The relationships between Amy, the FBI agent sent to find her and a sweet nun are very moving. They are all people damaged by loss or violence.
One thing I didn't like was that, just as I was really absorbed in the first part of the story, the tale moves forward by ninety years and it is almost as if another author has penned this part. The latter part of the book is story about human survival against all the odds and about bravery,loyalty and friendship. I think that this part could have been pared down somewhat as it is overly long and there are a lot of characters to keep track of.Read more ›
As almost every one on either side of The Passage debate has pointed out, the sudden change of plot a third of the way through the book does indeed jar, and it feels like someone's put two different books inside the same cover, but to say that the second part of the story is boring, or lacks any engaging characters, well, that's just plain silly. I was dismayed at the sudden end of the first part of the book. I had become really involved in the characters and the situation. The end was abrupt. Well, maybe it was meant to be, maybe the world is supposed to end unexpectedly. I found myself thinking in exclamation marks and question marks.
And then you start again, new characters, new (and alien) situation, new world. So, it made sense to me that the second part of the book was different to the first, because it IS a different story. A less creative writer might have gone for the easy option of the expected course of plot development, but I think Mr Cronin tried something a little more daring and different, and I think to a large degree, if not totally, he succeeded.
I will be buying The Twelve when it comes out, and I don't care if I AM a bit thick, I will enjoy it.
I love this book, it has taken me ages to read mainly because I have been reading only a few chapters a week, in between reading other books but the last few days I have been reading it like the end of the world is coming.
I am going to do a crap job probably of telling you what goes on in this book and there is so much (remember those 960 pages) to go over but the general gist of the book is that an experiment on high security prisoners has gone badly wrong, there are twelve prisoners and to make the baker's dozen there is also a little girl who has ended up in the same place as them and her name is Amy.
Something very bad happens, the twelve manage to get out but with their bodies ravaged by whatever the doctors have been given them, they are nothing like the used to be, they are killing machines.
They are hungry, they are fast and they are deadly and they are very quickly working their way through the American population, nothing is getting in their way.
They are creating more and more of their kind as they go, people run from them but they have no where to hide.
Amy escapes too, a concerned FBI agent called Wolgast takes her and makes sure she is safe, their world is changing and nothing is going to be the same again.
Ninety odd years later, America is virtually empty.Read more ›
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Not a lot more to say than the title of this review. Although it is a great story and grips you enough to keep going, the lack of editing out the waffle is very noticeable. Read morePublished 3 days ago by Mr Andrew D Bowden
I write this having read the first two books in the trilogy, reading them again to familiarise myself with the cast of characters before I read the final book. Read morePublished 9 days ago by Andy H
I've spent the best part of week reading this book.l can't tell you how boring this book is..the last part of the book was repeated page after page. Read morePublished 9 days ago by Veronica
Have read this before I bought a copy. Brilliant story that keeps you hooked until the end. Could not put it downPublished 23 days ago by A. Hardstaff
Read it a few years ago after The Passage (first in the set) as was completely hooked. Just re- ordered to speed read as the final part of the trilogy is published and many said... Read morePublished 1 month ago by Pensions1
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