ACCOMMODATION

FLORENCE - MILAN - ROME - SIENA

One of the free services offered by our schools is finding suitable accommodation for our students. Accommodation is regularly checked by our schools. You can choose from one of the following possibilities:

• Single or double room in a family with breakfast
• Single or double room in a family with half board
• Single or double room in an apartment;
  usually with bath and kitchen shared with other students
• Single or double room with shower/toilet in Two-Star Hotel included breakfast
• Upon request, we can also arrange rooms in Hotels of all other categories as well
  as independent flats, mini apartments, residences and boarding houses.

GENERAL INFORMATION

ABOUT ACCOMMODATION

Room-sharing with another student

We recommend booking a ‘place in a double room’ only for young people (max. 30 years) and only where 2 people book together. Based on our experience, mature people normally do not feel at ease in a double room as they may have to share it with younger people who have different habits and attitudes.

We offer you the possibility to come together with your friend and take a double room, provided by our school, even if the accompanying person does not take a language course.

Availability

Housing reservations run from the Sunday afternoon (after 2:00 pm) before the beginning of the course to the Saturday morning (10:00 am) at the end of the course. If you need to arrive a day earlier or to stay a day longer, please contact the school for help with extra accommodation arrangements. Different arrival or departure days must be confirmed in writing. However, it is not possible to arrive earlier than the Saturday before the start of the course and to remain later than the Sunday after the end of the course.

Arrival date and time / Emergency

We need to be informed at least 4 days in advance of your’s arrival day and time. Therefore, upon receiving the accommodation address, you have to contact the landlord (by telephone) or the school (by telephone, fax or e-mail) to communicate the date and time of arrival in order to make the waiting time for both parts as short as possible. If there is no communication, you will be expected to arrive in the evening, after 6:00 pm.

Booking and Payment

To make reservations for accommodation, we need your credit card number as guarantee deposit. Accommodation fees must be paid immediately upon arrival in Italy. Payments should be made in cash or with Traveller's Checks and in full (not by instalments) for each month or for shorter terms.

Location / Key

Our accommodations are located in the city centers as well as in the suburbs. In any case you can easily reach the school and the center of the cities by public transport. To get from the suburbs to the center takes 15 - 25 minutes by public transport (Milan and Rome up to 50 minutes). If you have been placed in the town center it takes about 15 minutes on foot to reach the school. You are given your own key and are independent.

Deposit for shared apartments

You must pay a deposit of 100 Euro to get the keys for your accommodation in shared apartments. This deposit must be paid in cash or by Traveller’s Cheque on arrival and will be refunded on departure, less repairs and cleaning costs if needed.

Bed-linen / towels / laundry

Host-family: Bed-linen is provided and changed every two weeks.

Shared Apartments:

Bed-linen is provided and changed every two weeks or, alternatively, upon arrival each student will be given a set of bed-linen and two sets if they stay longer. In this case students are required to wash bed-linen themselves.

About washing and washingmachine: in host-family the use of the washingmachine is not provided, also if it's possible to have a different agreement with the owners. In shared apartments you can wash by hand, or use one of the many wash & dry that are near the apartments.

Photocopy of passport

Following the events of September 11, 2001, Italian authorities have intensified checks on foreigners. The result is an unfortunate increase in paperwork. All landlords in Italy must declare the presence of tenants and thus need a photocopy of passports of all new tenants. We suggest to bring with you a photocopy of your passport.

Car Parking

Garages and paid parking spaces are easy to find in the city centers as well as in the suburbs. There are cheaper weekly and monthly season tickets available. You can also ask your landlords for the closest garage or parking area to the accommodation. Should you park the car on the street, you should consult the street signs or ask the landlord on which night the weekly street cleaning (“pulizia della strada”) takes place in the area. On that night the car must be parked elsewhere. All cars parked in a prohibited area will be removed.