Four Seasons Florence: Voted Top 10 on Earth

Review & tour of The Four Seasons Hotel Firenze — 1470 Medici palace turned Florence luxury hotel & Il Palagio, their Michelin star restaurant. Part of my best hotels in Italy series. Travel critics put this in their top 10 hotels in the world list. I check in anonymously to see if it lives up to that — and whether a 550-year-old palace is worth what The Four Seasons Italy charges. 📩 BOOK VIP MODE: Get perks you won't get booking yourself. At 6,000+ hotels, we unlock free room upgrades, $50-$150 vouchers, early check-in, late check-out, and breakfast for two, and more. Email us at [email protected] or check out: https://swankguide.com/ I take you through the full stay: the quietly deceptive exterior, the courtyard reveal, the traditional rooms (not my taste — I'll tell you exactly why), the 11-acre private garden that shouldn't exist in the middle of a major European city, the pool, the spa, the vermouth bar, and dinner at the Michelin-starred Il Palagio — where the first course was a 10 and the main left me flat. There's a real tension between preserving a building this extraordinary and making it feel like somewhere you actually want to live, and I'm not sure the Four Seasons fully solves it. This is stop six on a five-week sprint through Italy, checking in anonymously at some of the country's most talked-about hotels. Two days before this I was at the Aman Venice — the best historical renovation I've ever seen in a hotel — and that comparison is hard to shake. No paid placements, no hosted stays. Just an honest answer to the question: does one of Florence's most celebrated hotels actually have a soul? #FourSeasonsFlorence #FlorenceHotels #ItalyTravel #LuxuryHotel #FourSeasons #MediciPalace #FlorenceItaly #HotelReview #BoutiqueHotelsItaly #SwankGuide #MichelinStar #ItalySeries #TuscanyTravel #LuxuryTravel