Guests of the Carolus Hotel can hire baby equipment, or make use of laundry and dry cleaning facilities and room service. The hotel's staff is multilingual and is on hand to offer guests advice on booking tours, restaurants and trips into the Tuscan countyside. Florence Airport is about ten kilometers away and can be reached in about fifteen minutes by taxi, and about twenty minutes by the ita/Ataf service Fly by Bus service between the airport and Santa Maria Novella railway station. Traffic is restricted in the city centre and parking is expensive, so the center of Florence is best explored on foot. Taxis wait outside Stazione di anta Maria Novella.