Grand Hotel in Florence | Travel + Leisure
1 Piazza Ognissanti
Florence
www.starwoodhotels.com
800/325-3589 or 39-055/288-781

COST: $$$$$

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From Travel + Leisure, Aug 2003

“One difference between the Grand and the Excelsior is the difference between grand and grandiose. That's not a dig at the Excelsior. Indeed, with its monumental quadruple-width staircase, columns in multicolored marble, and painted ceilings divided into hundreds of coffered squares, the hotel gives flamboyance a good name. Leather walls spiked with gold stars lend the Donatello Bar a kind of forties swagger. Il Cestello is one of those adorably stiff-necked, old-fashioned restaurants with a lectern propping up a massive...” MORE>>

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