Straf

We stayed here for two nights during the Easter weekend. Located two minutes away from the Cathedral, Duomo, Vic, and few more minutes to Monte. One of the best hot chocolates I have had! There could be more food options in the restaurant. The rooms were quite unique. Would recommend to anyone who wants to stay in central Milan.

You can’t beat the hotel location as it is steps from the Duomo and shopping. It’s an ultramodern hotel and a little too hipster for our family. We had two rooms on separate floors. The adult room had the bed in the middle of the room, which wasn’t very efficient for space. It was hard to have our 2 suitcases open and still walk in the room easily. Our front facing room was noisy until 10:30-11pm as the bar is right downstairs. The hallways are dark and we had some issues telling which room was ours. I didn’t see anyone having the ability to check in before the 3pm check-in time so keep that in mind if you are hoping for early access to your room. The front desk staff were nice. Messaging them ahead of time to reserve tickets and inquire about parking was simple and they were responsive.

This hotel is what happens when you let a tortured, “down with capitalism” raging artist design a hotel. It’s ridiculously stark, industrial, and eclectic, to the point where it’s impossible to be comfortable. The bed and night table shelf is about a foot off the ground, as is the bathroom counter. Floors are concrete, fine, and bathroom floor is some sort of metal painted shiny gold. You can’t get. There was one odd looking massage chair that looks like they picked it up at a garage sale. Your partner apparently doesn’t need a place to sit? There is no fan in the bathroom so if nature calls the entire room will smell it. We left our key in the room and asked at the counter for a duplicate and they did so without asking for ID, so ladies, hopefully no creepy men are watching you enter your room and ask for a key. The location is FANTASTIC but that’s the only positive about this awful hotel. Marriott should not have their name on it.