La Réserve Firenze skips the hotel lobby and gives you the keys to your own slice of a 15th-century palazzo on Via Santo Spirito. Rooms are spacious and earthy, and the ceilings are heavenly high, some with Renaissance frescoes still intact. Service is everything you’d expect from the group, leaving you free to make the most of your city stay and explore the neighbourhood: artisans’ workshops, the morning market and Piazza Santo Spirito after dark.

