Best Family Hotels in Florence

Parents can take a double bed and give the children twins in the connecting pair. With a door between the bedrooms, there's less need to organise everyone's evening around the same bedtime.

For two adults with children aged five and nine, the Quadruple's existing beds are enough. You don't pay the extra-bed charge simply because a nine-year-old uses one of its standard singles. That distinction keeps the choice straightforward: select the bed layout first, then the breakfast and other terms of your rate.

Pendini works when you plan to spend most of the day out in central Florence. If you expect to stay up in the room after the children are asleep, Albani's communicating bedrooms or Minerva's connecting pair give you more separation.

Albani uses its 30 m² for two sleeping spaces rather than one large shared room. It's a useful middle ground if the children need their own bedroom but you don't need the second bathroom offered by Minerva or Savoy.

For an evening in the room, the Junior Suite offers more separation than the Superior Quadruple. On arrival, luggage assistance can take care of the bags, but anyone travelling with a pushchair still needs to account for the stairs before the lift.

The Quadruple is the simplest choice here for two adults and two children: everyone has a conventional bed. The Family Room's additional bathroom may be worth considering if sharing one would slow down mornings.

If you travel light and spend most days out, the Economy Quad may be all you need. With more luggage or more time in the room, the Comfort Quad's extra eight square metres are worth considering.

A kitchen can make it easier to fit meals around the children's appetites, while the terrace gives the family somewhere outside to sit. For that combination, choose Palazzo d'Anghiari; Palazzo Baldaccio exchanges the roofscape terrace for a balcony facing the inner patio.

Portrait gives you room to sit during the day and a separate bedroom at night. Its appeal is the living space and small courtyard terrace. If preparing meals is a priority, the fuller kitchens at Casual or Forte16 are the more useful options.

Choose Lungarno for the Oltrarno address and space to sit apart from the main bed. At 37 m², its Family Room is smaller than Portrait's 58 m² Family Suite across the river, but both give the children a sofa bed in a separate living area.

If you expect to eat at Irene or order in-room dining, the children's meal discount is useful. It doesn't mean they stay free: room charges use a different age threshold. You don't need to move up to the Junior Suite just to get connected bedrooms and two bathrooms.

For parents with a baby as well as two younger children, the suite brings everyone into one permitted room arrangement. If the older children won't share a rollaway, Roma, Pendini and Albani provide individual single beds for a party of four.

The Duplex gives older children their own upper sleeping level. For the five- and nine-year-old example, parents may prefer the Family Room's enclosed bedrooms, especially if either child gets up during the night.

Forte16 is particularly useful for a longer stay: you can cook, wash clothes and spend part of the day at the pool without arranging separate outings. Once the sofa bed is open, parents still have their own bedroom.