Let’s be honest guys, how many times have you faced the situation of being in a new place and getting tensed about finding good accommodation? We all have faced this before. We know the pain we undergo through this process. But, a little bit of information would be very helpful and could make this process much easier than it seems. In this article, my effort is to provide you with all those mini bits and pieces of useful information so that you could solve this puzzle by yourself.
In general, there are 2 kinds of accommodation searches
- Search for single or shared rooms or studio apartments
- Search for two or more room apartments if you are a group of people
Let’s go into detail to address both cases as below :
1. Search for single or shared rooms or studio apartments
For this purpose, the best places to search for accommodations are the famous Facebook groups like
These 2 are the head-first active groups if you are searching for single/shared rooms in and around the Siena Center. There are a good number of posts being updated in these groups daily.
The general average rent for a single room costs around 300 to 350 euros excluding the bills and that of shared rooms costs around 250 euros excluding the bills. For girls, these accommodation costs would tend to be slightly lower end. Apart from these, the other option would be the Uniaffitti website. Other options would be frequent checks on the notice boards at the university campuses and in mensas with the description of the rooms and the numbers attached to them.
2. Search for two or more room apartments if you are a group or people
If you are a group of people and are in search of a 2 or more rooms apartment the best go-to website is Subito. Here you could find many advertisements updated frequently on a daily or weekly basis.
Apart from this, you could also try your luck at Idealista.
If nothing above works out you could then go with an agency. Let me repeat, you could choose these options when all the other doors are closed. While a good advantage would be, the agencies will generally show you good houses but you need to give an amount equivalent to a month’s rent as the agency fee. Also in general 1 month in advance would be asked. Just keep in mind that when you go with an agency, you won’t compromise even a little bit with the house since you would already be spending quite a bit of money going with a consultancy and if you compromise there as well it would be a hard pill to swallow.
The general average cost for a 2-room apartment would be around 650 euros excluding the bills.
These are the general thing to be kept in mind while looking for houses in Siena. I hope this short and to-the-point article would help you in finding your dream accommodation in Siena.