What are some inexpensive hotels in Florence?

What are reasonably priced hotels in Florence & Rome for a honeymoon trip? Do I need a double or single room?

• I'm currently planning a honeymoon for the end of Oct/beginning of Nov. in Florence and Rome. If anyone has any advice, ideas, or anything, I would really appreciate it! Thanks!

• Answer:

  Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! First of all a clarification: You need a double room. A single room means for one person, double for two. Be sure to specify a "matrimoniale" which is a room with a double bed versus a "twin" which is a room with two single beds. (One warning: most matrimoniale beds are really two twin beds pushed together and made up as one. The creates an unfortunate crack in the middle of the bed that my husband and I like to refer to as the "grand canyon." Not great for snuggling. You can request a French bed "letto francese" to get a regular American double. As for a reasonably priced hotels. Depends on what you think is reasonable. Luckily you will be traveling in what is the shoulder season so you won't be paying high season prices. But remember that the Euro is strong against the dollar and Florence and Rome are expensive cities. I don't think you can get anything for much less than 100 euro/night in Florence and 130 in Rome for an average hotel. I could start listing hotels for you but without more info about what you want, it would end up being a very long and maybe not useful list. If you want to contact me with you idea of a budget I would be happy to help you try to find something that would be great for a honeymoon (I've help lots of people plan theirs in Italy), suit your tastes/needs and not break the bank.